For many people living in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the possibility of interethnic violence was inconceivable. Until it wasn’t.  Conflict between conationals of differing ethnic or religious backgrounds is not a new phenomenon. But in a fractious world it is something to watch for—and to guard against.  With support from The Harry […]

In the aftermath of World War II, the French government commissioned multiple organizations to study the defeat, the occupation, and the Resistance. The most ambitious of these was the Committee on the History of the Second World War (Comité d’Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale or CH2GM), which brought together a group of distinguished historians to […]