Category: Essays

Throughout his time in power, Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias had a profound effect on the continuity and development of Colombia’s largest guerri...

After Chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, China’s political transition was accompanied by an equally important economic transition and rapid liberalization. De...

Necessity is the sister of tyranny, and nowhere is such a bond stronger than in Pakistan. In 1958, just eleven years after Pakistan’s founding, Chief Justice Mu...

Following the First World War, the prevailing modernist trend in art underwent a startling transformation. While it initially appeared that painting was traveli...

Global Usage of Information Communication Technologies In the past twenty years, the world has experienced tremendous progress in the accessibility of informati...

All of us inevitably write out of the history of our own times when we look at the past and, to some extent, fight the battles of today in period costume. But t...

The popular protests that deposed Hosni Mubarak left in its wake critical questions: will the newly-democratizing Egypt continue on the path of former dictator ...

Afghanistan is often referred to as the Graveyard of Empires.  In completing the mission that began in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the United Stat...

In 2001, the term “state failure” became one of the structuring concepts of political thought and policy-making in the Western world. Although the term itself –...

Introduction to Kerala  Kerala stands out among the states of India, not only for its relative poverty, but for the truly remarkable array of basic health ...