This past week, with the very generous assistance of the political science and global studies departments, I was very fortunate to attend the 54th Academy…
Posts tagged as “United States”
One of the biggest and potentially most dangerous misconceptions prevalent among policy circles, pundit rounds and election campaigns today is that the United States should…
On the morning of January 21, while the first family of the United States was hurried from place to place in preparation for their second…
As the Cold War wound down over twenty years ago, it became fashionable among some intellectual circles in the West to suggest that the ideological…
Just a few months ago in September, I wrote a piece for The Concordian Politics called “Charting a Course”. The gist of the piece was basically the…
This year, like many years, the two presidential candidates provide American voters not with a decision about who might be the best man for the…
Last week this column explored the phenomenon of China’s recent rise to power and how this is presently changing the nature of the international system.…
Anybody who’s been following the 2012 campaign for any length of time has most likely been inundated by pundits from the left and the right…
The Cold War was probably the most high-stakes and globally encompassing theatre of Great Power struggle the world has ever known. Never before had two…
The problem with any argument is the will to win. I’d rather use the term “debate,” but outside of rigidly structured academic debates, such a…