Thu, March 18, 2010

Change and Continuity in Global Politics

Posted 5 days, 18 hours ago

Coverage of foreign affairs tends to focus on change, specifically how events change a country, a particular region or the world.  We have been told that the end of the Cold War, the attacks of September 11th, Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq, the global economic crisis, the emergence of…

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Democracy Isn’t The Only System in Crisis Now

Posted 1 week, 6 days ago

The collapse of the Greek economy, which has exacerbated the crisis facing the European Union, along with the bickering, partisanship and inability to get anything done in Washington reflects the post-recession meltdown facing western democracies.  Europe and the U.S. are experiencing one of…

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Still Choosing between Bad and Worse in Iraq

Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago

When an apologist for the Bush administration or partisan Republicans argue that President Obama is making a mistake by planning to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in the coming months it can be ignored as rhetoric or vitriol.  However, when somebody like Tom Ricks, who has written extensively…

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