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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
