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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…

  A new, completely unprecedented pattern of political resistance has swept across the Tibetan plateau. In the past year, more than 30 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, in what amounts to one of the world’s…

United States-Russia Relations Is Russia really America’s greatest geopolitical foe? Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested as much following the Obama-Medvedev open mic faux pas at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, in which our president asked his Russian counterpart…

A simple search of “NATO” in JSTOR reveals overwhelming fatalism amongst academics concerning the future of the Alliance — a sample of article titles on the first page of results include “NATO in Trouble,” “NATO — Where To?” and “Saving…

How War Gaming Affects Military Planning Recently, United States Central Command, the combatant command responsible for military operations in the Middle East, conducted a war game to assess the consequences of Israel striking Iran in protestation of their nuclearization efforts….

  On the night of March 2, Daniel Zamudio, a clothing store assistant in Santiago, Chile, was tortured and left to die by a group of individuals who allegedly singled him out for being gay. Zamudio was found the day…

Why Expect Fewer Fouls if National Interests Haven’t Changed? The idea of a youthful new leader in North Korea tempts spectators to see a shot at reform. Playing to this perception, the Korean Central News agency recently released a photo…