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JUL 7, 2010 • Article
The Case for a Union: From the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road
Authors Abtahi and Shoamanesh have a bold proposition: a multi-state, political-economic-security union that stretches from the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road, connecting the Indian ...
JUL 2, 2010 • Podcast
Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
Journalist Jere Van Dyk tells of his decades-long involvement with Afghanistan, and gives a harrowing account of his 2008 kidnapping and imprisonment by the Taliban in ...
JUL 2, 2010 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Google and State Capitalism?
Does the state capitalism model present a challenge to free market political systems? Is Google's confrontation with China a taste of the future? What do ...
JUL 2, 2010 • Podcast
Activism and Policy: Prospects for Change in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is one of the most closed societies in the world. Its media and education system are propaganda tools and all opposition is crushed. Meanwhile, ...
JUL 1, 2010 • Article
The Bloom is off the Rose--and the Orange, and the Tulip
What went wrong with the "Color Revolutions" in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan? It was a combination of excessive expectations of the new leaders, and some ...