Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...

It was the first time I was to see the face of Il Duce up close…“On hearing my affirmation of the unshakable loyalty of Italian Jews to the Fatherland, His Excellency Mussolini looks me straight in ...

Much has been made of the comparison of Trump to past autocratic regimes throughout history. Muammar Gaddafi from Libya, ...

The French concessions along the southern frontier of Libya turn out to be very puny indeed ... In the first place, Mussolini had not been able to exculpate Italian policy completely from any ...

Catholic communities in Evanston mourn the passing of Pope Francis, who died following complications from a cerebral stroke.

Nearly every kind of hot news story about Benito Mussolini began to sizzle in capitals from one end of Europe to the other last week, while Il Duce made still more news in sizzling Africa ...

Italy’s traditional solution to ... of the U.S.S.R. would become Germany’s Wild East. Mussolini wanted to build a new Roman Empire in Libya and Ethiopia. Image Early signs of a backlash ...

In the late 19th century, newly unified Italy gradually began establishing control over Libya and Eritrea ... in a shortlived ...

Mussolini's recent journey to Tripoli ... Although her colonies in Africa, consisting of Tripoli and Cyrenaica (forming the compact territory of Libya), Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, and Jubaland, ...

Past examples are Mussolini (Italy), Hitler (Germany), Pinochet (Chile), Mobuto (Zaire) and Gaddafi (Libya). Moving into our present realities we have (to name a few.): Putin (Russia), Erdogan ...