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From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but ...

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Three decades after his death, François Mitterrand remains a defining yet contested figure in French politics .

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We lived there for 35 years. We spent about 20 of those years trying to move to a larger house, but every time, it turned out ...

As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...