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For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.

We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with

By Niko Vicario, author of Hemispheric Integration: Materiality, Mobility, and the Making of Latin American ArtWriting a blog entry for the University of California Press website while self-isolating in Brooklyn in late March of 2020, I cannot help but be affected by the global pandemic. As