The Art of the Deal? More of the Same!
“There are among us today, as there always have been, those who act against the scheme of things that degrades them, and in the process of action everything we have...
Paris Bombing (13 November 2015) and Western “Terrorism” Policy
The bombing that took place in Paris with many casualties was a human tragedy and a political disaster for Western anti-terrorism policy. A day before ISIS suicide bombers in Paris,...
21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 3
“Consumption Democracy” Consumption values are at the core of contemporary American culture. The mass media, businesses and politicians equate such values with freedom and democracy. The social contract as the...
21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 2
Rising Public Debt, Dwindling Democracy. Conservatives attribute the rising public debt to government spending on costly entitlement and social programs. They conclude that deficit financing for entitlement and social programs...
21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 1
Abstract: It requires several hundred pages to address the complex subject of challenges to American democracy in the post-Cold War era of a global multi-polar economic and political power structure....
Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign
Introduction A recent article by Jorge Elbaum, the former executive director of DAIA (Delegation for Argentine Jewish Associations), the principle Argentine Jewish umbrella groups, published in the Buenos Aires daily...
Brazil’s Presidential Election: Impacts on Relations with Turkey
Millions of Brazilians went to the polls on Oct. 5 to elect the new president of Brazil. There were three frontrunner candidates: Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent and the leader of...
The Renewed Federalism and Its Effects on The Representation of Women in Mexico.
Representation is an essential part of a democratic regime and if representation is to be considered an intrinsic element of democracy, no system can claim to be democratic if it...
Mexico 2012: The six-year Presidential term that awaits us
Last July 1 there took place presidential and parliamentarian elections in Mexico. Enrique Peña Nieto was elected, the candidate of the formerly hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that after eighty...
Kalashnikovs Under The Poncho
When something as rock-solid asa national stereotype changes, something profound is surely going on. The traditional (and stupid) Mexican stereotype had been that of the guy wearing a funny and...
Cowboys Versus Indians in Nicaragua’s ‘Wild East’
The road from Managua to Bonanza, a mining town in the autonomous north-eastern part of Nicaragua, is long and for the most part unpaved. BY NATHANIEL MORRIS | NOVEMBER 10,...
A Mormon Foreign Policy would be Good for America and Great for the World, But It won’t Happen…
BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | JULY 27, 2012 As the world prepares to face another US presidential election, thoughts turn to the likely foreign and national security policies of America’s...
The USA: Challenges of the Superpower
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union among diversity of problems central for American Studies and International Relations scholars and experts are questions: Is the world system unocentric or polycentric?...
Hard Power in a Soft Package: The ‘True’ Conservatism of Obama Leadership in Foreign Policy
Analyzing President Obama’s foreign policy, or rather, analyzing the intellectual and positional evolution of his global positions is no easy task. It would not be hyperbole to say Obama came...
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring
As the uncertainty of the Arab Spring continues, the debate on the future of the movement and the U.S. role in it grows into a colorful debate. As a part...