World
Tweeting Against Tyranny
Social Media and Democracy On January 25, 2011, the people of Egypt came together to protest a dictatorship that had neglected their needs and silenced their voices. Starting as a small group of 50 marching from a mosque in the…
With Love from Abroad
With the presidential election rapidly approaching, a dichotomy between appearance and reality is the political spotlight. As Obama’s actions and rhetoric face heightened scrutiny, the shift in public opinion shows that though President Obama’s popularity has suffered both at home…
Untold Lives
Statelessness and Minority Rights in Burma Early this past June, at least seventy-seven people died in Burma’s remote Rakhine State of injuries sustained in tit-for-tat skirmishes between members of the country’s Buddhist majority (who are believed to have benefited from…
Is Burma Ready For Foreign Investment?
In the span of two years, Burma, one of the world’s most brutal military junta-led regimes, has begun to rapidly change. As a result, countries such as the United States have started to lift their imposed sanctions. However, in easing…
Insourcing: Competition for Foreign Investment
Outsourcing is only half the story. Politicians love to gripe about the loss of American jobs to cheaper overseas labor, but new manufacturing jobs are being created here as well — by foreign companies that see the US labor market…
Self-Immolations in Tibet
A new, completely unprecedented pattern of political resistance has swept across the Tibetan plateau. In the past year, more than 30 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, in what amounts to one of the world’s…
The Feedback Loop
United States-Russia Relations Is Russia really America’s greatest geopolitical foe? Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested as much following the Obama-Medvedev open mic faux pas at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, in which our president asked his Russian counterpart…
Why NATO Matters
A simple search of “NATO” in JSTOR reveals overwhelming fatalism amongst academics concerning the future of the Alliance — a sample of article titles on the first page of results include “NATO in Trouble,” “NATO — Where To?” and “Saving…