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JUN 3, 2010 Article

Independence Day: Fifty Years after Lumumba Speech, DRC's Riches Still Not Benefiting her Children

DRC expert Thomas Turner examines Congo's rash of conflicts, its resource curse, elections, and possible withdrawal of MONUC. The state survives, but is too weak ...

Adm. Mullen testifies at Senate Armed Services Committee  <br> CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejointstaff/4325376893/in/set-72157623335956302/" target=_blank">DoD photo, Cherie Cullen</a>

MAY 4, 2010 Article

This Is about Leadership: The Circular Debate of the Military's Gay Ban

In August 2010, three months after writing this article, West Point Cadet Katherine Miller publicly announced she was gay and resigned from West Point, saying that "...

Presidents Obama, Abbas, and Prime Minister Netanyahu<br>CREDIT: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Trilateral" target="_blank">Official White House photo by Samantha Appleton</a>

APR 13, 2010 Article

Incentivizing Peace in the Middle East: A New Role for the United States

The issue in the Israel/Palestinian conflict is not a lack of desire for peace, but the political inability to achieve it. The basic contours ...

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MAR 25, 2010 Article

Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection

In this critical post-financial crisis period, Margot Salomon of LSE underscores the demands that international human rights law place on a more ethical form of ...

Barack Obama. Credit:  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2809826185/in/set-72157607021022453/" target=_blank">Barak Obama's Photostream </a>

FEB 1, 2010 Article

Obama and Democracy Assistance: Challenges and Responses

Although Obama has largely avoided the term democracy assistance, in fact he has delivered a considered and astute response to overcoming Bush's tarnished legacy--a response ...

Migration. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15388497@N02/3333084735/" target="_blank">Ariel Kaplan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>)

JAN 6, 2010 Article

Defining a Right to Move?

Beyond the ethical and practical arguments for immigration reform, the strongest case for an internationally recognized right to move may arise out of the "worst-case ...

"Stethoscope" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitualis/137213564/" target=_blank">vitualis</a>, (CC)

DEC 4, 2009 Article

Rationing Healthcare? We're Already Doing It

The question today is not whether to start rationing healthcare. We are already rationing, based in large part on the ability to pay. The question ...

<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thefalloftheberlinwall1989.JPG" target=_blank>The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989</a>.<br> Unknown photographer, public domain.

NOV 5, 2009 Article

The Opening of the Berlin Wall: A 20-Year Retrospective

The sudden downfall of the Communist regimes in 1989 and the opening of the Berlin Wall are sometimes depicted as the inevitable result of a lengthy ...

OCT 26, 2009 Article

Hunting the Hare

"He that hunts two hares will catch neither," runs an old proverb. In the current unruly security environment, with challenges aplenty for the Obama administration, ...

Sunrise in Croatia<br>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zsoolt/2682186109/" target="_blank">Zsolt Bugarszki</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>)

SEP 2, 2009 Article

The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology

John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker argue that although the world's religions have been slow to respond to our current environmental crises, their moral authority ...