The Antithetical Legacies of Václav Havel and Kim Jong-Il On December 18, 2011, history was provided with an odd coincidence that invites further reflection — the simultaneous deaths of Václav Havel, a dissident playwright, essayist, and poet who became the…
Latin America is a region of unlikely contrasts. UNICEF data reveal that 29 percent of women in Latin America and the Caribbean are married by age 18, yet Latin America leads the world in number of female presidents and prime…
In our last issue, The Politic spoke with Karam Nachar, a PhD candidate at Princeton University and Syrian activist. This past Friday, Nachar appeared on MSNBC’s national program, Up with Chris Hayes, where he further discussed the situation in Syria. Watch…
The value of a human life is quantifiable: $162 million in annual arms sales, $550 million for combat training jets, $4 billion in defense contracts, and regional geopolitical interests. On February 4, after two days of indiscriminate violence, over 300…
Since World War I, every American president has had to confront the potential agonies, moral uncertainties, and quagmires of military intervention abroad. Certainly, the price of intervention weighs on Barack Obama even as he pulls out troops from Iraq and…
By Meredith Potter SIX years ago, the civil war that ravaged Sudan from 1983 to 2005 came to an end. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the conflict, provided the people of southern Sudan an opportunity to vote in a…
By Vinicius G. Lindoso ONCE upon a relatively recent time, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) was perhaps the hottest conflict spot in the world. Sarajevo attracted some of the most ambitious journalists seeking to boost their careers by reporting first-hand on the horrors of…
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…
