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Matthew Connelly, professor, works in international and global history. He received his B.A. from Columbia (1990) and his Ph.D. from Yale ( 1997). His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002), Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008), and The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets (2023). He has written research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American Historical Review, The Review francaise d'histoire d'Outre-mer, and Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest. more

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The Declassification Engine analyzes a vast trove of state secrets to unearth not only what the government really does not want us to know, but also why they don’t want us to know it. From Pearl Harbor to drone warfare, incompetence and criminality have driven state secrecy—and rampant overclassification makes it impossible to protect truly vital information.

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Fatal Misconception is the first global history of a movement that sought to remake humanity- seemingly with the best of intentions-but succeeded in causing untold suffering. Beginning with eugenics, the temptation to breed better people culminated in the sterilization camps of India and the horrors of China’s one-child policy.

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A Diplomatic Revolution describes how rebels can harness their cause to global trends to defeat an empire. It happened a half century ago, when Algerian nationalists mobilized Muslim immigrants in France and across Europe, staged urban terror to attract the international media, and finally won over the U.N. without ever liberating national territory.

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Comment le FLN a-t-il fait, alors que ses troupes étaient écrasées par l’armée française, pour amener de Gaulle et le gouvernement de la France à accepter l’indépendance? La réponse se trouve bien au-delà des frontières de l’Algérie, car c’est sur la scène internationale que les nationalistes ont livré leurs combats les plus décisifs.

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