By Gunter Soydanbay.   In Turkey, not a day goes by without a fascinating development… It seems like the Turkish protestors are on a mission to teach the world a lesson in 21st Century leadership. As you might know; apeaceful, [...]

  By Romy Kerwin. To The Right Honourable Kim Sung-hwan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.    Having participated in Global discussions groups and listened to all view points, I have reached a conclusion on what I really believe [...]

By Jeong Lee In the wake of Hassan Rowhani’s landslide victory as Iran’s new president, some foreign policy mavens now believe that Rowhani’s presidency may augur a positive shift in Iran’s hitherto hostile policy towards the West. [...]

  Posted by Hussam Alyoush.   By JIM HINCH ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER For many election cycles, the Arab American Caucus of the California Democratic Party gathered in small conference rooms at party conventions, listened to speeches, [...]

  by Douglas Gibbs from Conservative Action Alerts. Found not guilty, George Zimmerman walked out of the courthouse a free man, and then went into hiding. Zimmerman and his parents have received death threats, and the Obama administration [...]

    By International Security Observer. Risk is the defining feature of modern society. Citizens today are risk averse and the desire to ‘manage’ risk has become the lingua franca of business, politics, economics and public [...]

  By Themistocles Konstantinou. The issue…. Few hours passed till the time when I saw in my mailbox the following article as a link and when I finished it (mean read it), I noticed something usual and common in dictatorships and authoritarian [...]

  by John Stanton. Glenn Greenwald’s Snowden dossier concerning the American Leviathan’s practice of harvesting, storing and analyzing the information/conversations of its own and the world’s political, military, economic and cultural [...]

  By Steven Hansen.   The headline said: Consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 8-1/4 percent in May. Revolving credit increased at an annual rate of 9-1/4 percent, while nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of [...]

By Jeong Lee (Note: This article was republished by permission from the Center for International Maritime Security and appeared in its original form on June 27th here.) The ROKS Dokdo and USS George Washington on exercise together. In my previous [...]

      By Helios Global.   The search for new and alternative sources of energy remains one of the world’s most pressing challenges.  To make an impact, these energy sources must be economically feasible, industrially viable, [...]

  By David Andolfatto.   A desirable property of a monetary instrument is that it holds its value over short periods of time. Most assets do not have this property: their purchasing power fluctuates greatly at very high frequency. [...]

    By Federico Schiavio.   Barely accustomed to southern Mediterranean countries entering crises one after another, we are now dumbfounded to see Turkey in the throes of political fever while the Syrian crisis is still ongoing. [...]

  By Alton Parrish. The autonomous flying of multiple UAVs in formation is an important research area in the aerospace field. Professor DUAN Haibin and his group members (LUO Qinan and YU Yaxiang) from the Science and Technology in Aircraft [...]

  Posted by Lisa Nielsen. At the behest of politicians, educators nationwide have been told to view students as statistics, not as individuals, and to view the purpose of the educational enterprise as raising test scores rather than developing [...]

  By Jeong Lee and Miha Hribernik     The Korean Peninsula seems to have calmed down after months of heated tension among all parties involved. Indeed, recent events may suggest that neither Korean state is willing to risk an [...]

  By Ernest Chan. Backtesting trading strategies necessarily involves a very limited amount of historical data. For example, I seldom test strategies with data older than 2007. Gathering longer history may not improve predictive accuracy [...]

    By Tsvi Bisk.   Prophets of doom are everywhere. We are headed for global catastrophe: climate change,population growth, shortages of water, deforestation,food shortages, and the end of oil are all converging to destroy the [...]

  By Tshepho Mokwele.   Climate change effects are increasingly becoming evident everywhere and the international community is getting down to brass tacks to establish a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. The envisaged international [...]