JAN 5, 2011 • Podcast
Beirut, Damascus, Tehran, and Tel Aviv: The Moment of Reckoning is Near
As powerful regional forces confront each other over the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri, a day of reckoning is inevitable. Will ...
JAN 3, 2011 • Podcast
The Caucasus: An Introduction
Known as "the lands in between," the Caucasus has long been an arena of great-power contact and conflict. The region is often seen as intractable, ...
JAN 3, 2011 • Podcast
Putting Middle East Youth to Work: Partnering with Business to Turn a Youth Tsunami into an Asset
Founder and CEO Ron Bruder and VP Jasmine Nahhas di Florio introduce Education for Employment Foundation, an NGO that creates employment opportunities for youth in ...
DEC 17, 2010 • Podcast
Interview with Susan Aryeetey on Women in Ghana
Susan Aryeetey discusses her work empowering women in Ghana. She has a background in journalism and communications, and has spent the last eight years at ...
DEC 17, 2010 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: International Humanitarian Law and Non-State Actors
Should non-state armed groups be excluded from the formal realm of international humanitarian law? Should they be held to the same standards as states during ...
DEC 14, 2010 • Article
Suicide Terror and the Preoccupation with Occupation
According to Robert Pape, suicide bombers the world over are not motivated by religion; they are all secular nationalists resisting foreign occupation. Is there really ...
DEC 14, 2010 • Podcast
AMEXICA: War Along the Borderline
In a horrific account, Ed Vulliamy describes the ultraviolent, nihilistic narco-traficante culture of the Mexican-American border, a land of drug addicts and cartels.
DEC 14, 2010 • Article
Las Presidentas
A new era in Latin America or status quo in another form? While female politicians' success in Latin American elections is laudable, this trend does ...