Blackwater and Private Military Contractors
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 bea...
Category: Essays
Health and the Huaorani
Nestled at the heart of the thick and humid Amazon jungle in Ecuador, the Huaorani tribe lives a quiet and conflicted existence, walking a perilous tightrope be...
I am a Seed of Peace: Music and Israeli-Arab Peacemaking
Seeds of Peace International Camp for Coexistence, a summer camp for teenagers from conflict regions around the world, particularly the Middle East, creates a s...
Ghosts of the Recent Past
The recent international disagreements over Iran’s nuclear advances and related economic sanctions signal an all-time low in Iran’s relationship with the West. ...
When Soft Power is Too Soft: Confucius Institutes’ Nebulous Role in China’s Soft Power Initiative
“Henry Kissinger once told me that he believed that ancient Chinese thought was more likely than any foreign ideology to become the dominant intellectual force ...
Climate Change, Basic Rights, and International Obligations
Introduction: The Impact of Climate Change on Basic Human Rights Climate change poses an immense and growing threat to human rights around the world, but nation...
Truth Commission in Brazil: Individualizing Amnesty, Revealing the Truth
Introduction In 2004, the Brazilian newspaper Correio Brasiliense published a photograph of a man hanging in the Information and Operations Detachments and Comm...
A Monadic Peace from a Synthesis of Methodologies
Introduction In contemporary international relations (IR) theory, there is perhaps no subject more contested than the democratic peace. The origins of dem...
Monetary Exit Strategy: Building a Better Endgame
Introduction In the world of monetary policy, one crisis can beget another. Much political and economic attention is tuned to the art and science of using inter...
Jerusalem: Political Significance of a Holy Site
“Ten measures of beauty gave God to the world: nine to Jerusalem and one to the remainder. Ten measures of sorrow gave God to the world: nine to Jerusalem and o...