A Disunited United States: What the 2016 Election Says About America
By Leonard Steinhorn
The 2016 election may be focused on the rise of Donald Trump, but the Trump candidacy is possible only because America is...
The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2016
By Allan J. Lichtman
The Keys to the White House, a prediction system that correctly forecasted the outcomes of all eight presidential elections since 1984...
The Strategic Significance of Central Asia
By David Denoon
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the creation of five newly independent states in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
By Tim Anderson
The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular...
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...
How Can Brazil Restore its Growth Trajectory?
By Dan Steinbock
Only a few years ago, Brazil exemplified the BRIC dream of rapid growth. Now it is coping with its longest recession,...
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social...
By Eric Harwit
Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles in...
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...
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
By Robert Hunziker
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe administration’s...
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...





































































