The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the...
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman
Despite the unanimous agreement of United Nations member states to commit as an international community to global humanitarian...
Durability before Democracy: Why Stability is Elusive in the Middle East
By Sean Yom
In this article Sean Yom discusses how the lack of permanence of Middle Eastern governments means that democracy is for the time...
Is Brazil still “The Country of The Future”?
By Manoel Bittencourt
In this article Manoel Bittencourt argues that corruption is killing economic growth and prosperity in Brazil. Using standard economic theory and data...
Refugees and Refugee Crises: Some Historical Reflections
By Peter Gatrell
The current Syrian refugee crisis provides an opportunity to look beyond the headlines and to locate it in a broader historical context....
APEC 2015: Change is in the Air
By Dan Steinbock
Despite diplomatic missteps, APEC 2015 could pave way to regional peace and development. The triangular perspectives of Washington, Beijing and Manila tell...
A Time for European Diplomacy to Come of Age: Responding to the Refugee Crisis
By Susi Dennison
“People will always want to migrate for a better life: this is a constant reality.” But the harrowing images on the news...
China’s New Global Role: President Xi in Washington and the UN
By Dan Steinbock
The recent Washington summit took the US-China bilateral relations onto a new level, while President Xi’s UN visit gave a glimpse...
The Trans-Pacific Divisions
By Dan Steinbock
The White House’s effort to hammer the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in Maui failed. As time is running out for President Obama’s...
What the Iran Nuclear Deal Means – and What it Doesn’t
By Scott Lucas
Iran and the 5+1/E3+3 Powers (US, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) have at last completed a comprehensive nuclear agreement after years...
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Offensive, Iran’s “Proxy” Strategy, and the Middle East’s New “Cold War”
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Riyadh’s war in Yemen marks a dramatic escalation in its efforts to roll back Iran’s rising influence in the Middle East. Saudi...

































































