An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

MANCHESTER, England — In a dank, disused railway station, TV news clips were playing on a huge screen: a pig farm in Arizona; young men in Islamic dress on a street in Iran, their white robes streaked ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

Saim Saeed is a Brussels-based journalist and former POLITICO editor. European officials are keen to assert that the sum of their institutions is more than their parts. The EU, in their view, isn’t ...

For thousands of years, the great civilisations and nations of Europe have had to endure regular attacks from a lethal foe: Mother Nature. From earthquakes and eruptions to fire and floods, the ...

There is a well-worn story that is told in one form or another in all European history textbooks. In 824, ten years after the death of Charlemagne, Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon, hailed a new Christian ...

The Department of International History is delighted to host a group of world-leading historians of Europe to explore modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the ...

For more than three and a half years now, Ukraine – and with it the so-called ‘West’ – have been paralyzed by a dreadful, ...

A rich cultural legacy reinforces a commitment to solidarity. [ opinion ] In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of Persian monarchy with an opulent party for hundreds of ...

Caught between Trump’s shifting Ukraine calculus & China’s industrial surge, Europe confronts hard reckoning over its fading competitiveness, political resolve ...