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Op-Ed Columnist Helene von Bismarck reflects on the UN Committee of 24 and the role it played in the process of decolonization.

Op-Ed Columnist Helene von Bismarck discusses the rise to prominence of global history over the past decade and its relationship with globalisation.

Op-Ed Columnist Helene von Bismarck discusses the importance of the British presence in the Middle East to the United States during the 1960s.

Op-Ed Columnist Helene von Bismarck looks for a definition of what it means to be “western” in an era engulfed by economic and geopolitical uncertainty.

In her first op-ed column, Dr. des. Helene von Bismarck looks back to the formation of the United Arab Emirates and asks whether this artificial federation was the work of the British Empire or the participating nations.