Under what conditions are international sanctions effective?

Under what conditions are international sanctions effective?

Dec 3, 2021

Reading time: 7 minutes
According to US government data, 32 sanctions regimes are currently in effect. Canada, for its part, currently imposes sanctions on 20 different states and on terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda. The EU is currently implementing sanctions against some 30 countries and international actors. As for the United Nations, since 1966, the Security Council has put in place 30 sanctions regimes, from apartheid South Africa to Gaddafi’s (and according to him) Libya, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Read More
The Black War

The Black War

Dec 1, 2021

Reading time: 10 minutes
In the heat of commemoration of Australians’ involvement in the first world war, it’s timely to remember their participation in the frontier wars in the 19th century. As Nicholas Clements, the author of a new book on the best known frontier war, the Black War in Tasmania in the 1820s, points out, the death rate among the colonists was half that of Australians in the first world war, much higher than the death rate in the second world war and the casualties affected almost every family in Tasmania.

Read More
The Test of Time: The Oldest Companies Still in Operation and Why They Survived

The Test of Time: The Oldest Companies Still in Operation and Why They Survived

Nov 29, 2021

Reading time: 6 minutes
Today’s biggest companies are considered young, especially when compared to some of the oldest companies in the world. While companies like Microsoft and Apple are well on their way to reaching five decades old, that doesn’t come close to the more than 200 years some others have been around for. Several companies have stood the test of time for hundreds of years, the oldest of which dates to 563 CE.

Read More
When France extorted Haiti – the greatest heist in history

When France extorted Haiti – the greatest heist in history

Nov 27, 2021

Reading time: 7 minutes
Much of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the United States and the United Kingdom should finally compensate some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of slavery that still linger today.
But to me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti.

Read More
Cuba without Fidel: Five Years Later

Cuba without Fidel: Five Years Later

Nov 25, 2021

Reading time: 6 minutes
For nearly 60 years, and for better or for worse, Fidel Castro was Cuba; at least he fancied himself as such, and the Communist Party which he largely governed with total control, never questioned this image. But what about the Cuban people? Did they really view Fidel as a “modern day Simon Bolivar”, and their one defender against American imperialism?

Read More
Loading

 

 

Find out More About the Australian's who served in the Mediterranean during WW2.

Military History

Latest
How Cyprus Became Divided

How Cyprus Became Divided

Nov 18, 2021

Reading time: 8 minutes Cyprus is a country that on paper is whole, but in reality is divided into several parts. Greeks, Turks, Cypriots and the United Kingdom have all staked claims on the island, with the UN in the middle, doing their best to maintain the peace. But what made Cyprus into an island of lines?

Political and Economic History

Latest

Social and Cultural History

Latest
Maurice Hilleman, the scientist who saved more lives than any other

Maurice Hilleman, the scientist who saved more lives than any other

Nov 10, 2021

Reading time: 5 minutes Maurice Hilleman is credited as the man who saved more lives than any other scientist in the 20th century. He developed over 40 vaccines throughout his career, eight of which are still routinely administered today. His intuitiveness prevented the spread of a possible flu pandemic during the 1950s. Despite these lifesaving achievements and the fact that he is widely considered the father of modern vaccines, Maurice Hilleman is not a well-known figure today.

History Audiobooks

Loading

History Guild would like to acknowledge the Boonwurrung people, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are based, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.