Israel Condemns UN War Crimes Resolution
Robert Berger Israel comdemns the United Nations Human Rights Council's approval of the Goldstone Report which accuses Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of war crimes during the Gaza...
U.S. floated plan to withdraw fighter jets
The U.S. government sounded out Japan in early April about pulling out all of the approximately 40 F-16 fighters from Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, possibly beginning later this year, sources...
Afghanistan: Narco-Cartels a Growing Threat, UN Drug Agency Warns
Aunohita Mojumdar A report released September 2 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has good news and bad news about narcotics cultivation and trafficking in Afghanistan. The...
The Persistence of Nuclear Power
Bruce Slawter Several noteworthy news analyses published over the last several weeks underscore the salient observation in my article that, while the debate over nuclear energy in the United States continues, a...
You Ain’t Seen Pirates Yet
J. Peter Pham This week, the Russian Navy found the Arctic Sea, a timber freighter that mysteriously disappeared at the end of July after passing through the English Channel. The...
Failing State
Michael Sheehan, Karen Greenberg U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced earlier this summer that the State Department will issue an inaugural "Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review," or QDDR....
Turkey: Ankara Wrestles with the Kurdish Issue
Yigal Schleifer After decades of conflict and repressive policies, Turkish leaders appear to be taking concrete steps toward resolving the Kurdish issue. But analysts warn that domestic opposition and the lack...
Iran: America’s “Not-So-Smart Power” and the Nuclear Programme
Scott Lucas, Prof. Hillary Clinton’s address to the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday was awful. Sorry. I should be fair: if the speech was meant as a statement of US strategy,...
Sovyet Sonrası Dönemde Ukrayna’daki Azınlıklar
Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu Özet: Küreselleşmenin giderek yaygınlaştığı günümüzde, ulus-devletlerin varlığı konusu sürekli gündem oluşturmaktadır. Bu küreselleşme ve ulus-devlet ikileminde uluslararası aktörlerin çıkar çatışmaları büyük rol oynarken, Azınlık unsuru da arada...
An Analysis of the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) with International and Domestic Dimension And Its reflection over Turkish-American Relations
It is widely believed that the attacks of September 11 were a turning point for international relations since it led countries worldwide to assess the threat of terrorism and generate...
CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES
CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES This center aims to bring together the academicians and thinkers in the field of Security Studies, which has emerged as a growing subfield of...
Beyond Blind Optimism
In Political Reflection Magazine, vol. 3, issue 3, Dr. Terry Tucker writes about the role social media played in the Arab Spring and the campaigns against SOPA/PIPA (Stop Online Piracy/Protect...
Twenty Years On: The Continuing Relevance of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF | JULY 2012 The mandate of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), agreed by the participating states of the July 1992 Helsinki Summit of...
Global Leviathan Rising: The Emergence of a Transnational Demoi’s Corporeal Form
This argument is based on two specific works. The first is a review essay of Noam Chomsky’s monograph entitled Hopes and Prospects (2010, Chicago: Haymarket). Therein I began trying to explain a...
Social Media Lessons Learned for Political Engagement
In December of 2010 a man in Tunisia self-immolated in protest and what has followed has literally been explosive, as the lessons learned on the use of social media has...