Saudi Arabia and Oman Have Different Experiences With Extremism
By Gary Grappo.
Saudi Arabia and Oman possess differing national identities, varied social and cultural roots, and divergent approaches to tolerance that may explain their different experiences with extremism.
The [...]
Why Teens Become Terrorists and What Schools Can Do
By Alan Singer.
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was nineteen years old when he and his older brother set off the bombs killing three people and injuring over 250 at the finish line of the 2013 Boston [...]
The Neo-Renaissance doctrine
By Sebastian Sarbu.
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The Neo-Renaissance doctrine
Why should Japan join anti-terrorist coalition?
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Terrorist group, Islamic State beheaded Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto and another Japanese national Haruna Yukawa that drew international condemnation. Japan applied all available options but could [...]
Need of second intervention in Libya
By Pramod Sedhain.
Despite the change of government following the uprising in 2011, Libya is still in conflict with the emergence of several militia outfits. The Libyan post-revolution transition has seen flared-up conflict in [...]
In Gentrified Brooklyn, Where Will Ordinary People Live?
By Alan Singer.
Gentrification may bring Starbucks to a formerly underserved community, but it also brings devastation for people who are displaced when rents skyrocket and they can no longer afford to live in old neighborhoods. [...]
Israel’s BDS: Bounce, Develop and Surge
By Ambassador Yoram Ettinger.
In defiance of the anti-Israel BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), diplomatic pressure, regional and global geo-political instability, continued global economic uncertainties and the overall [...]
Geometric variable of a love triangle – India, Russia and the US
By Rakesh Krishnan.
The Modi-Obama romance won’t last as India’s relationship with the US does not have the kind of strategic dimension and weight that marks New Delhi’s ties with Moscow.
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Iraq’s anti-terrorist war: Closer to turning point
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Battle against brutal terrorist group, Islamic State (IS) reached a new height and “mother of all battles in Iraq will begin soon” in the militants-controlled city of Mosul. The widely-anticipated [...]
Fascism, American-Style
By John Stanton.
“Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate [...]
Iraq in War: Narrowing down differences between U.S. & Iran
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Ties between the United States and Islamic Republic of Iran have been hostile. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian students occupied the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4. The U.S. launched a rescue mission [...]
The New Asymmetric Threats to the Global Security
By Silviu Craescu.
Today the international security is a milieu widely open to the strategic opportunities resulted from the global competition between the big powers. The uni-polar world is counterbalanced by the multi [...]
Liberty and the Bill of Rights
By David Corbin and Matt Parks.
The foundational document of Anglo-American constitutionalism, the Magna Carta, turns 800 years old this summer. While most important political anniversaries prove fertile ground for historical [...]
The Ark of Freedom
By Nelson Hultberg.
There is only one hope to stop the tyrannical rot of statism stealing over our country. We must challenge the Democrat-Republican monopoly of politics that foments the rot.
Is this being redundant? Heard all this [...]
Europe Leads Global Deployment Of Renewables
By Stuart Reigeluth.
“We are proud of what we have initiated in Europe”, Dominique Ristori, Director-General for DG Energy at the European Commission said at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi. According to Jacob [...]
Afghanistan Post-2014: power will be shared between the CIA, the Pentagon and the current elite
By Malaiz Daud.
Article written on 2012 but still holds some relevance as of today.
A power-sharing political system already exists, but not the one Farhad Arian envisions. The system proposed is unrealistic, and looking [...]
Agriculture in Portugal: Relying on foreign workers
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Recently, I was in Portugal for a week to cover its agricultural characteristics, farms and its reliance on foreign workers. I visited several agriculture farms to cover almost three distinct [...]
Building A U.S. Based Uranium Powerhouse
By Richard Mills.
Global Uranium
The International Energy Agency (IEA) annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2014 report projects global energy trends through to 2040.
Some interesting predictions:
Global energy demand [...]
Why Eric Holder’s “Good Deed” on Civil Forfeiture…Wasn’t That Good
By Mark Nestmann.
One of the departing initiatives taken by retiring US Attorney General Eric Holder was to impose limits on a legal process called “adoption.”
This is not the kind of adoption in which you add a child to your family. [...]
Socio cultural closeness and distance
By Lucas Juan Manuel Alonso Alonso.
Socio-Cultural Closeness
Socio-cultural closeness among the home country and the host country (or host countries) is related to factors such as common/similar language, comparable educational [...]