World

It’s the best of times in China.  With its GDP growing an average of 10 percent over the past 30 years, China has catapulted itself from rural obscurity to the world stage and overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest…

Can Anna Hazare Bring Revolution to India? As India’s war on corruption continues to drag on, corruption seems to be winning. Scarcely a week goes by without news of another scandal, another public fund pocketed, or another vote bought. Amid…

Trouble Returns to the Falkland Islands On April 2, 2012, the thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands Wars, Argentina renewed calls for dialogue with Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland (Malvinas) islands. After fighting a ten-week war in 1982, the…

Parliamentary Elections Highlight Inequalities of Power and Influence On October 28, 2012, millions of Ukrainians went to the polls to elect their new representatives to the country’s parliament — and to deliver their verdict on the performance of the ruling…

Considered a threat to the Islamic faith by many Muslims, the Alawites may hold the key to Syria’s future.

Tracing back the origins of a region is probably the trickiest issue to deal with in the sphere of international relations. And, unsurprisingly, precisely such a dilemma of detecting the provenance has arisen with the cataclysmic Arab Spring that has…

Over the past half-century, foreign aid programs have typically focused either on massive, nationwide reform or on micro-targeted, individual empowerment initiatives. Yet despite billions of dollars in directed invest- ments from governments and NGOs, the material wellbeing of much of…

Yesterday’s Latin America and Today’s Middle East From 2011 to 2012, social media outlets were set afire with news of an increasingly tumultuous situation in the Middle East. While the region has always been a hotbed for international crises, it…