World

By Seoyoon Han ON 16 November 2011, Silvio Berlusconi, the longest serving prime minister of Italy since WWII, lost his parliamentary majority and resigned from his post. Mario Monti, a former European Commissioner, was welcomed as a technocratic prime minister who…

By Shivani Vohra “A Greek, an Irishman, and a Portuguese go into a bar and order a drink.  Who picks up the bill? A German.” When the European nations signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, they clearly never fathomed the…

By Justin Schuster ON January 1, 2012 the last of the United States’ troops pulled out of Iraq. In October, President Obama noted, “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” While this date may mark the…

By Austin Schaefer THIS Halloween, the world reached a major demographic milestone; the United Nations reported that global population had exceeded 7 billion individuals. Though a surprise to no one, this has sparked discussion of the significance of this event, as…

By Alex Fisher FOR the first time in many years, British Eurosceptics smell blood. With the Eurozone crisis having vindicated the nation’s decision to stay out of the single currency, the uneasy truce that had emerged between pro-Europeans like former…

By Paavan Gami     AMY Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother whipped up an international storm. While criticisms defending Western parenting gained prominence, the Chinese perspective itself was neglected. In China, the book was paradoxically heralded as…

By Sun Woo Ryoo GEORGE Kennan, the chief architect of the American strategy of containment, expressed his doubts for a quick end of the Cold War, saying it may only “be possible to negotiate the end of the Cold War…

By Meredith Potter ON MAY 2, 2011, American operatives stormed a residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing al Qaeda commander Osama bin Laden. The immediate effect on the United States and its allies was psychological; retribution had been achieved after…