Negative Behavior: Youth Movements in the United States and their Effect on Domestic Terrorism
By Dale Yeager.
Negative behavior youth movements come in various forms; Goths, Juggalos and the most recognizable, Straight Edge. They are not well known by the general public but their increasing involvement in [...]
Beyond the Boiling Point – Russian Aggression triggering a Global Conflict
By Oliver Krumme.
If anyone has ever doubted that Putin’s Russia is playing hardball on the international level, then Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula are proving it again. With a Russian military intervention [...]
The Makings of a discovery
By Richard Mills.
We are going to follow the process a junior resource company takes in making a discovery; in this case we are going looking for uranium, but are also reminded of the Voisey’s Bay story when two diamond [...]
Measuring a country’s progress
By Lucas Juan Manuel Alonso Alonso.
How do you think the progress of a country can be measured?
GDP is not everything
GDP is a measure of a country’s economic activity, and therefore it should not be considered a measure of [...]
Russia’s policy toward Central Asia
By Sergei Gretsky.
For the past seventy years Central Asia never generated so much interest and heated discussions in Russia as after the breakup of the Soviet Union. To a great degree, this discussion was caused by pragmatic reasons [...]
‘US intelligence needs prosecutions to get more budget dollars’
By George Mapp.
The article below is an excerpt from a live interview during a featured program titled, In The Now hosted by Anissa Naouai. I have attached the video of the entire show below the Russia Today article, as well [...]
Is Now Too Late to Fix Climate Change?
By Ronald Bleier.
It’s hard to know which is worse when contemplating the climate crisis – the inability of our collective politics to address the issue, or the vast new power of nature to overturn our world now that [...]
Asia needs ASEAN-ization not Pakistanization of its continent
By Anis Bey.
Speculations over the alleged bipolar world of tomorrow (the so-called G-2, China vs. the US), should not be an Asian dilemma. It is primarily a concern of the West that, after all, overheated China in the [...]
Why the US Postal Service Turned Spy
By Mark Nestmann.
FATCA and similar laws have eviscerated financial privacy in the US. And last year, thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the world learned the extent of the surveillance conducted by America’s largest [...]
US Policy and Cyber Attacks
By Stephen Bryen.
The Pentagon put in place Plan X to deal with cyber attacks. Apparently Plan X creates the mechanism for the Pentagon to counter attack against a cyber intruder. Unfortunately, the rules of engagement for [...]
American Strategy and the World-wide Western Security Web
Professor Julian French.
On 30 January, 1902 faced with global over-stretch the British forged the Anglo-Japanese Treaty with the Empire of Japan. To conceive of such a treaty London had to a) take a global view; b) recognise [...]
US-Israel relations and Middle East crisis
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
The most trusted strategic partners – the US and Israel’s troubled relation reflected during Israeli Defense Minister’s recent visit to Washington DC. Israeli hard-liner Defense Minister [...]
How Iran attained big success in Yemen?
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
After the dramatic change in Yemeni political scene, Iran took a major strategic gain in the regional competition. Iran has been strategically getting more influential and making more alliances after [...]
The Case for US Intervention in the Middle East
By Gary Grappo.
Washington’s decision to enter war in Iraq for the third time in a quarter century is consistent with long-held US policy.
The debate over isolationism vs engagement is a relatively new one in Americanpolitical [...]
Making the case for free movement in the European Union
By Pierre-Antoine Klethi.
Free movement of workers is one of the founding pillars of the Single Market and, by extension, of the European Union. Free movement of citizens then followed in the 1990s, much supported [...]
SAARC needs collective battle against terrorism
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Security and terrorism in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member states have continuously grabbed world headlines dragging greater concern in the international community. After the withdrawal [...]
Russia’s Relations with Post-Soviet Republics: A Neo-Gramscian Approach
By Ariz Huseynov.
… whilst Marxism has always offered an integrated approach . . . historical materialism has tended to become marginalized from many of the major debates in international studies.[1]
A considerable [...]
Prospects for Energy Independence in Romania: Shale Gas and beyond
By Ariz Husenov.
Romania, historically one of the world’s main energy producers, became a net importer of oil and gas in the 1970s when production started to declined. However, Romania is still luckier than other [...]
Kobani fall might have devastating consequences
Pramod Raj Sedhain.
The most brutal terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) with full effort targeted to control the Syrian northern Kurdish town of Kobani. The strategic Turkey border town has been the target of IS militants after it captured [...]
Reshaping the Middle East: UAE Leads the Counter-revolution
By James M. Dorsey.
Synopsis
The United Arab Emirates backed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt is spearheading a conservative Arab effort to reshape the Middle East and North Africa in their mould, in parallel with the US-led war against [...]