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MAR 25, 2019 Article

Coherence and Comprehensiveness: An American Foreign Policy Imperative

As the United States now confronts the prospect of a multi-faceted and quite possibly generational competition with China—underscored not only by recent Trump Administration ...

MAR 22, 2019 Article

America in Decline?

A Pew Research report says that many Americans view the country as being in long-term decline. What implications does this have for U.S. foreign ...

MAR 22, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

America in Decline?

Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande, central New Mexico (with low water level) CREDIT: David Groenfeldt

MAR 21, 2019 Article

On World Water Day: Think Globally, Act Ethically

"On this World Water Day (March 22) we urgently need a campaign to disrupt global complacency about protecting the planet's water. We adults, who are in ...

MAR 14, 2019 Article

The Sicilian Expedition and the Dilemma of Interventionism

The Peloponnesian War has lessons for U.S. foreign policy beyond the Thucydides Trap. Johanna Hanink reminds us that the debate over moral exceptionalism and ...

MAR 14, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

The Sicilian Expedition and the Dilemma of Interventionism

The Peloponnesian War has lessons for U.S. foreign policy beyond the Thucydides Trap.

Protesters of President Park Geun Hye in Seoul, South Korea. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protest_Of_President_Park_Geun_Hye_(191877143).jpeg>Mathew Schwartz (CC)</a>

MAR 12, 2019 Article

Democracy: The Keystone of our Society

South Korea has flourished as a democracy, while the North is suffering under authoritarianism. "By offering uncensored education, freedom of speech, and the unbridled agency ...

Anti-government protesters rallying through Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út, Budapest. CREDIT: <A href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demonstration_20170521_193130_Bajcsy.jpg>Wikimedia (CC)</a>

MAR 12, 2019 Article

Living in an "Illiberal Democracy"

"Today, virtually all countries make claim to democracy, even conspicuous dictatorships such as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," writes Gergely Bérces from Hungary. "...

Facebook Headquarters - 1 Hacker Way in Silicon Valley, California. <A href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/jikatu/22339401336>CREDIT: Jimmy Baikovicius (CC)</a>

MAR 12, 2019 Article

Democracy: Freedom with a Caveat

"As a kid living in Silicon Valley whose whole life has been in the shadow of historic advancement, I hope these will not be the ...

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MAR 12, 2019 Article

Why Democracy is the Best We've Got

"In the face of the global decline of rule of law, freedom of the press, equal representation, separation of powers and freedom of speech, democracy ...