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Can China Be Contained?
In a close-knit world, pressuring Beijing could have unintended consequences. For over a decade now pundits have speculated as to how the rise of China as a major power would affect the world. That...
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Globalization - When the Cure Is Worse Than the Malady
Attempts to halt globalization may cause more harm than global economic integration. NEW YORK: A new specter haunts Europe: a frightened, angry and badly fractured body politic. Elections in the past...
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Middle School Lesson Plans: International Conflict
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 6th, 7th and 8th.Lesson Plans: Divided Peninsula: Six Decades of Military and Political Tension in Korea This lesson provides a framework for discussion...
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High School Lesson Plans: Foreign Policy
These resources are appropriate for grades: 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th.Lesson Plans: Changing Boundaries in Pre-colonial Asia to the Present This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to learn...
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Middle School Lesson Plans: Foreign Policy
These resources are appropriate for grades levels 6th, 7th and 8th.Lesson Plans: Isolationism Versus Interventionism in the Philippines Student groups use a timeline to analyze past U.S. foreign policy...
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Questioning Milton Friedman's Free Market and Freedom
Milton Friedman's experience in Chile illustrates that political freedoms may not flow naturally from economic freedoms.Pinochet legacy: Time to debate whether Chile's brutal repression was worth the...
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Kenya's Political Disaster - Exaggerated?
It is shocking to read and hear about elections dissolving into civil crisis as we are seeing in Kenya right now. However, as a Kenyan friend of mine is warning, we should be reluctant to take media...
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Who is Raul Castro, Cuba's New Leader?
Fidel has resigned, but a Castro still rules over Cuba. What are the differences between Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, and what will these differences mean for a post-Fidel Cuba? While there is a...
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Politics and Trade: Muslims Boycott Dutch Products
Muslims in Malaysia and elsewhere are boycotting Dutch imports in the wake of an incendiary Internet-posted movie by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. The right-wing politician means to provoke with his...
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Can middle-class Americans really speak for "the other 99 percent"?...
In Portland's Waterfront Park, Steve Wessing sold Occupation-themed buttons to demonstrators for $1 each. Photos: Michael Andersen for MercyCorps.Sometimes, people who claim to speak for "the other 99...
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The politics of hunger: Good governance effective at fighting malnutrition
Much needed food aid being distributed in Sukkur, Pakistan. Photo: Rob Holden, UK Department for International Development (Flickr)Malnutrition, which prevents children from reaching their physical and...
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