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US Foreign Policy: Transactional or Value-Based
The 2016 elections presents a divergence in US foreign policy between the two major candidates. On one hand is the continuance of the status-quo...
Trump’s foot’n mouth disease
One of the most memorable lines on George W. Bush is due to Ann Richards, a former Texas governor, who passed away in 2006....
Why Socialism can’t work in America
Everyone who has a conscience wants some type of wealth redistribution, income equality, or minimum wage, so that everyone has the bare necessities of...
Kashmir: A Collective Alienation
Burhan-the prominent face of young, revived and local militancy in Kashmir valley, is no more today! Killed on July 8, by forces, which resulted...
Gong or Song from China’s Hong Kong?
Following the recent abduction of five Hong Kong publishers, alleged to have edited books disclosing “inconvenient truths” about the Chinese government, thousands of people...
The Closing of the American Mind
In 1987, Dr. Bloom wrote a scathing critique of how society has failed democracy in the perennial book, The Closing of the American Mind....
Kashmir’s pain and the Fourth Geneva Convention: Is there room for peace?
The crux of the Kashmir problem is very simple (although often carefully elided in many essays on the subject): The Kashmiris want a voice...
The attempted military coup in Turkey
The Turkish Armed Forces are fighting both in the PKK Kurdish area and in the framework of the Inherent Resolve operation led by the...
The Presidential Election and U.S. Democracy
A belief in the paradigmatic nature of mature Western democracies is notoriously widespread. Nothing could be further from the truth. We, here in the...
Understanding Arab-Islamic Politics: Advocating the Case of the Political Culture Approach (A)
The chronicles of human history are mainly the struggle between despotic, oppressive governments, on the one hand, and freedom from tyranny and the aspiration...