International

Considered a threat to the Islamic faith by many Muslims, the Alawites may hold the key to Syria’s future.

Tracing back the origins of a region is probably the trickiest issue to deal with in the sphere of international relations. And, unsurprisingly, precisely such a dilemma of detecting the provenance has arisen with the cataclysmic Arab Spring that has…

Over the past half-century, foreign aid programs have typically focused either on massive, nationwide reform or on micro-targeted, individual empowerment initiatives. Yet despite billions of dollars in directed invest- ments from governments and NGOs, the material wellbeing of much of…

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…

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…