Essays

In 1993, the Treaty on European Union (TEU), otherwise known as the Maastricht Treaty, entered into force and transformed the fundamental nature of what would henceforth be called the European Union (EU). Most visibly, the Maastricht …

How has the evolution of media in recent decades—in terms of the various types available, the impact of globalization, and an apparent lessening of accountability—affected America’s security stance towards military secrecy, an area of escalating national …

“Kosovo is the love child of an international affair. We don’t know who we are. We don’t know what parent to look up to. We are a bastard child.” – Shkelzen Maliqi, Kosovan Intellectual On February …

I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England’s green & pleasant Land[1] With these words, William Blake captures the missionary zeal that …

On May 10th, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first president of South Africa to have been elected by citizens of all races. The selection of a black man as the nation’s first post-apartheid executive …

On 7 May 1954, a victory rang out in a northwestern province of Vietnam that reverberated throughout the colonial world.  For the first time in modern memory, a non-white colonized people had stood up to and …

Little more than two years ago, European news outlets and politicians spoke about the prospect of economic downturn and financial unrest as if it were only caused by the contained crisis in Greece.  Comprising less than …

The creation of a functional financial system is essential to the growth of developing countries. In the decades following its independence, the Indian government imposed numerous misguided policies on its nascent financial sector with the intent …

BLACKWATER On March 31, 2004, an enraged mob attacked and overturned a vehicle in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq.[1] Four men were dragged from the wreck and beaten with sticks and stones. All four men were …