MAY 8, 2017 • Article
Syrian Women: Peace Will Come only with Accountability
There can be no lasting peace in Syria without justice for detainees and accountability for war crimes. says Syrian Women's Committee Member Mariam Jellabi. Syrian ...
APR 21, 2017 • Article
The Main(e) Concern in the South China Sea
On the 119th anniversary of the start of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. is facing another potential maritime conflict, this time with China. What ...
MAR 28, 2017 • Article
President Trump's Dangerous Foreign Policy Know-Nothingism and the Lessons of Nixon and Kennedy
Kennedy kept his cool. Nixon fell to pieces. How will Trump behave under stress--a president who not only lacks a coherent theory of statecraft or ...
MAR 22, 2017 • Article
No Place for Eritreans
Eritreans are fleeing their repressive homeland at the rate of 5,000 a month. Yet once they manage to leave, new dangers await these hapless refugees, from ...
MAR 2, 2017 • Article
Integrating the Roles of Women into Japan's Climate Change Strategies
Among Shinzo Abe's most important initiatives are Cool Earth 50 to reduce greenhouse gases and Womenomics to increase women's participation in the labor force. Yet despite ...
FEB 24, 2017 • Article
Nationalism: A Reason for Optimism
"In the end, there is something that we ought to take from the example of Korean nationalism. Nationalism can indeed exist along with globalization, without ...
FEB 24, 2017 • Article
The Bane of Nations: Nationalism in the Modern World
"Today, a European Pole might rub shoulders with an Iraqi while walking in the streets of Shanghai, and in Los Angeles an Ecuadorian store owner ...
FEB 24, 2017 • Article
Globalization vs. Nationalism. Gross National Product vs. Gross National Happiness
This could be our best century--a century of triumphant globalization. And this could be our worst century--a century of triumphant nationalism. But then, is it ...