Russia is rarely out of the news, yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. Russia's history and geography, alongside the dramatic influence of powerful leadrs such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin, all play a part in its global status.

"The population of the United States has diverse sources: territorial acquisition through conquest and colonialism, the slave trade, and voluntary immigration, which has been the greatest instrument of population expansion and has been central to the transition in the nineteenth and twentieth...

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development...