Author Archives: Ron Pavellas
“… at last the world knows America as the savior of the world!”
The words in the heading for this article are those of President Woodrow Wilson, given to an audience in Portland, Oregon, 1919, referencing the USA’s role in the establishment of the League of Nations after the end of World War … Continue reading
Posted in Government & Politics, War & Peace
Tagged Danzig corridor, Democracy, First World War, Human Rights and Democracy Fund, League of Nations, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies, the war to end war, The Warsaw Declaration, Treaty of Versailles, US State Department
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A love story, inside a lecture on race, wrapped in an exploration of cultural differences between the USA and Nigeria
Last year I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimananda Ngozi Adiche. It was well-written and engaging, and informative about a part of the world I knew little of: Nigeria and the Nigerian Civil War. More recently I viewed … Continue reading
