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How Many More Mexicans Must Die for America's Drugs?

How Many More Mexicans Must Die for America's Drugs?

Ernest Drucker  06.21.2012
The present surge in homicides in Mexico and the region is yet another tale of America's maintaining our own expensive drug habits at the...
Moving Beyond the Mafia State

Moving Beyond the Mafia State

Michael Busch  06.21.2012
Happily, political scientists and others have crafted a wide variety of analytical tools with which to understand the world of international...

Into Africa: The GWT's Last Frontier

Michael Brenner  06.20.2012
America's "war on terror" now has brought us deep into tropical Africa. Washington is engaged in an expansive project to hunt down local...
While America Returns to Asia, China Regains Centrality

While America Returns to Asia, China Regains Centrality

David Gosset  06.19.2012
The global financial crisis caused by Wall Street's hubris and a national credit addiction has accelerated Beijing's relative rise, and...
WTF Happened To Egypt's Revolution?

WTF Happened To Egypt's Revolution?

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin  06.19.2012
For more than six decades, Egypt has been ruled by a military dictatorship led by Hosni Mubarak, a military man that U.S. administrations...

The Phenomenon of the Tame Citizens of Egypt

Alaa Al Aswany  06.19.2012
While revolutionary Egyptians have set for the whole world an example of courage and sacrifice for the sake of freedom and dignity, the...

My North Korean Magical Mystery Tour: How I Joined The Circus (PHOTOS)

Illya Szilak  06.18.2012
I take a picture of my North Korean visa. I've been warned that the authorities will confiscate it upon arrival. My passport will not be...
Democracy Is Inevitable: Why Warren's Way Still Works

Democracy Is Inevitable: Why Warren's Way Still Works

Rob Asghar  06.15.2012
Hierarchies were the assumed order of organizational life, until people such as Warren Bennis made an unusual discovery more than a half-century...

Ten Ways American Foreign Policy Creates American Jobs

Thomas R. Nides  06.14.2012
Our leadership in the world and our economic strength at home are a package deal. Our investment in diplomacy and development shores up...
The Frenemy of Our Frenemy

The Frenemy of Our Frenemy

John Feffer  06.12.2012
Both China and Vietnam belong to that peculiar foreign policy category of "frenemy" -- they're not our enemies, but they're not alliance...

Translating Rhetoric Into Policy on Democracy

Sarah Trister  06.12.2012
From Moscow, to Cairo, to Manama, there have been incredible opportunities to make democracy and human rights a hallmark of this presidency....

The Solution in Syria Moving on Two Tracks, Putin Negotiates Dates

Raghida Dergham  06. 8.2012
This week, at the World Economic Forum meeting in Istanbul, it was clear that the Syrian issue had given a different color to what had...

The Great "Pivot to Asia"

Eric Margolis  06. 8.2012
Just as the US sought to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War by surrounding it with American allies and bases, so Washington plans...

Can Sports Save the World? Reflections of a Former Little Leaguer on Sports, Diplomacy, and Globalization

Derek Shearer  06. 8.2012
Sports can't save the world from the effects of global warming or by themselves solve economic inequality in the world economy. For that,...