Rerouting History: From Suez to the Arctic Once upon a time, if you were mapping global trade, your pen would glide through the Middle East and North Africa. Cairo. Haifa. Dubai. Aden. The Suez Canal ...

The way things are going, Greenland might not have to become an ... already do. Not so. The world map is an ever-evolving thing. Old states break up, new ones form, independence from historical ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Thirteen of these islands have never appeared on maps before, including 12 in Greenland and one in the ... change will continue to reshape Earth’s geography – and the geopolitical forces ...

Greenland has gained more than 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) of new coastline—not due to tectonic uplift, land reclamation, or natural sediment buildup, but because its ancient glaciers are ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn ... Carter made a recent legislative proposal to rename Greenland as “Red, White, and Blueland” in support ...

The most important thing for them to experience,” he says, “is how difficult this is.” In the depths of the cold war, US soldiers were a familiar sight in Norwegian garrison towns north of the Arctic ...

Couple that with the president’s attacks on Denmark and threats to nab Greenland. Denmark has been a positive ... Ten Years ...

Is President Donald Trump bent on political self-harm? It often seems that way. His overall job approval rating still hovers within a point or two of the 50% popular vote he received last November.