By Louis Fishman. During the last few days, a new controversy has been brewing in Turkey. Following a closed meeting of the government, reports were leaked to the press that the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had ordered [...]

  By Pramod Raj Sedhain. The ruling style of the young leadership in one of the world’s most closed states – North Korea has been the world’s attention. Swiss-educated young leader Kim Jong-un came to the power as a successor [...]

    By Wayne White.   In his Oct. 29 Foreign Policy article, “How We Won in Iraq”, General David Petraeus characterizes the 2003 US invasion and departure of US troops in 2011 as an American victory. This triumphant — [...]

By Valeria Giannotta.    ILLUSTRATION: CEM KIZILTUĞ 25 December 2012 / This year the Europe Union was awarded a Nobel prize for world peace. The EU received the prize as recognition of its valuable efforts toward improving [...]

    By Tamara Santos. The Brazilian Human Development Atlas 2013 was launched last July based on the new Municipal Human Development Index (MHDI), and itbrings data for the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities, which is available free of charge [...]

  By Saverio Fortunato. The term methodology  comes from the latin methodus that comes from the greek methodos, a word composed by meta (destination), and after hodos, journey, route. The route that is crossed, the direction toward a destination. [...]

By Shermineh Salehi. On the long standing contentious matter of nuclear bomb building, scholars remain divided on a response that can bypass a potential nuclear war. Today’s Iranian nuclear development has left more than fifty percent of [...]

By Wanda Krause. Secular and Islamist discourse in Egypt share a core essence of masculine dominance. Egypt and the wider Middle East are undergoing major change following revolutions. But what is the best way to plan for and [...]

  By Pierre Antoine Klethi. The repeated tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea, with hundreds of migrants drowning in the recent weeks not far from Lampedusa’s and Malta’s coasts, have prompted calls for a reform of the European immigration [...]

By Anis H. Bajrektarevic.   The EU of social welfare or of generational warfare, the continent of debt-bound economies or of knowledge-based community? Is the predatory generation in power? Europe’s redemption lies in the re-affirmation [...]

                                         By  Simone Pasquazzi.     Introduction.    On Monday 7 October  2013 (the 12th anniversary of the Afganistan war), six months before he steps down from office and one year [...]

  By Pramod Raj Sedhain.    Over the last two decades of United States’ negotiation concerning North Korean nuclear abandoning program, nothing concrete has been achieved so far. The limited option is ‘denuclearization’ talks yet again. [...]

By Chad M. Pillai. Since the 2008 Financial Collapse, subsequent period of slow economic recovery, and political gridlock, a laundry list of policy proposals have been offered by both the Republicans and Democrats to jump start the economy.  [...]

    By Amer Sabaileh.   The current atmosphere of change in the Middle East is impacting all political protagonists, from countries to various political groups. Policies and actions are being adjusted according to concerns and [...]

  By Yoram Ettinger.   The following are excerpts an essay by Yakov Faitelson, the lead expert on the Jewish-Arab demographic balance: “Since 2003, the annual population growth rate [birth, mortality and migration rates] of IsraeliJews [...]

By Chris Zambelis. The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Qatar will not cease to be a factor affecting events in Syria. This is the last of a two part series. Read part one here. [Note: This article was originally published [...]

    By Ivan Gomez. The informational revolution has an acentric scope, although, the research and development of computers and other information processes started in OECD countries in general and in the United States especifically circa [...]

  By Fadi Hussseini. In a region that has been described for long time as idle, sluggish and even immune towards transformations, revolts sneaked in, toppling some regimes and shaking the thrones of others. However, with the bloody course [...]

By Sokari Ekine. The third anniversary on January 12, 2013 of the earthquake in Haiti was marked yet again by a flood of new reports, opinions, facts and figures: a repetition of the past two years in terms of the lack of progress in reconstruction, [...]