World
Untold Lives
Statelessness and Minority Rights in Burma Early this past June, at least seventy-seven people died in Burma’s remote Rakhine State of injuries sustained in tit-for-tat skirmishes between members of the country’s Buddhist majority (who are believed to have benefited from…
Is Burma Ready For Foreign Investment?
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…
Insourcing: Competition for Foreign Investment
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…
Self-Immolations in Tibet
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…
The Feedback Loop
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…
Why NATO Matters
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…
Game Over
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….
Gay Rights: A Shifting Consensus
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…