Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

Histories of imperialism, especially the European imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries, were long dominated by purportedly neutral accounts that sanitized the often bloody practice. More ...

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While some in Africa paid tribute to the deceased monarch, others stressed Britain’s violent colonial history on the continent. By Abdi Latif Dahir Lynsey Chutel and Elian Peltier NAIROBI, Kenya — ...

We host a roundtable on the life and legacy of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. She was the country’s longest-reigning monarch, serving for 70 years and presiding over ...

As usual, something reminded me of a historical phenomenon we need to reexamine: the old British Empire and its legacy to the world. The recent outbreak of mass demonstrations in Hong Kong aimed at ...

AS BRITAIN’S GLOBAL role has shrunk, so the island’s politics have become increasingly insular. But occasionally wider concerns intrude—as in the Brexit saga, or during the protests that followed the ...

Queen Elizabeth II's death has garnered a spectrum of feelings around the world about her life, legacy and the monarchy. When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population ...

A brutal reality underpinned the British Empire’s ideology of civic uplift, according to this sweeping historical study. Harvard historian Elkins (Imperial Reckoning) surveys 20th-century milestones ...