Category: Americas

Josh Rogin 29 January 2010 Being secretary of state is a grueling job; you're on the road most weeks, and often you get a lot less say in your country's...

Walter Russell Mead  This is one of the most unpopular headlines an American blogger can write, a guaranteed hit-suppressor.  But it is true nevertheless, as President Obama is now finding...

Richard Wall   Woodrow Wilson was disliked in his own lifetime, by some even loathed. The reasons advanced for this range from academic rivalries and disputes during his tenure at...

Colombia says it will not allow recent tensions with Venezuela to escalate into violence, after it accused Venezuelan troops of blowing up two footbridges that link the countries.   Gabriel...

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu   Orta ve Güney Amerika ile ilgili haberler son dönemde sıklıkla gündeme geliyor. Bu haberlerden ilki Honduras'taki darbe ve sonrasında yaşananlarla ilgili. Konuya ilişkin yorumlarımızı içeren bir yazı yayınlamıştık ancak...

Igor Torbakov   US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev got down to business on July 6, trying to place US-Russian relations back on a solid foundation after...

Scott Lucas  so much for the Obama Administration putting a check on the Pentagon and its ambitions. Writing in The Intelligence Daily, Tim Burghardt reveals the expansion of the military “black...

Cemal Demir     muhafazakar gruplar ülke genelinde federal hükümetin vergi ve harcama politikasını protesto ederken, Texas'tan ayrılık sesleri yükseldi. Texas Valisi Rick Perry'nin de bağımsızlık imasında bulunması şok etkisi...

Andrés Martinez iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexico. ... Mexico? Really? Mexico! All of a sudden, it seems, Mexico popped up on the list of scary places that should keep you up...

Francis Fukuyama   One of the most obvious policy initiatives that the United States could undertake right now is is to seriously up the amount of help being given Mexico...

Prof. Scott Lucas                                                                                                  www.libertas.bham.ac.uk   With no further ado, American Studies in five episodes:   EPISODE 1: WE’RE NUMBER ONE   A young boy grows in the US South of...

Prof. Scott Lucas                                                                                                  www.libertas.bham.ac.uk   As Robert Fisk has written, ‘The real and frightening story starts now.’[i] It may be the only occasion where he is in accord with neo-conservatives...

Prof. Scott Lucas                                                                                                  www.libertas.bham.ac.uk   In October 2001 Charlotte Beers, formerly the head of the Madison Avenue advertising firms Oglivy and Mather and J. Walter Thompson, joined the George W....

Prof. Scott Lucas                                                                                                  www.libertas.bham.ac.uk   Five years ago, the freelance historian Frances Stonor Saunders caused a flurry of press comment with the publication of her Who Paid the Piper?, published...

                       Ali Onur Özçelik   Abramowitz, Morton. (2000) “The Complexities of American Policy Making on Turkey” in Abromowitz, Morton (ed) Turkey’s...