Category: Americas

Any academic or policy literature examining how to transform resource wealth into genuine social and economic development is bound to encounter the buzz word: resource curse. BY JEWELLORD NEM SINGH |...

On February 12th the Venezuelan opposition is due to hold internal or primary elections to elect the candidate who will face President Chávez in the Venezuelan presidential elections on October...

With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones,  the “National Defense Authorization Act " H.R. 1540 was signed into law...

The presence of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Europe is fast becoming a prism through which the Turks view their ties with Europe, especially in Germany. BY CUNEYT YILMAZ...

Written by ROLAND PARIS Is the United States “pivoting” its foreign policy towards the Asia-Pacific region, as prominent Obama administration officials, news reports, and commentators have claimed? Daniel Drezner, a Fletcher School professor and Foreign...

Written by PROF. IGNACIO LABAQUI Wednesday, 09 November 2011 08:12 Just as expected, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) obtained a landslide victory in the 23 October presidential elections and secured...

Written by PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR Wednesday, 09 November 2011 07:47 At a round table discussion a few years back at Durham University, some of us discussed whether the-then President George...

Written by PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR Monday, 31 October 2011 06:27 Libya's contradictions are real enough and devastating in their consequences. But a couple of points missed by most commentators are...

Written by T. J. COLES Friday, 28 October 2011 18:06 Afghanistan has always been considered “the centre of great empires” by imperial powers,1serving as a “buffer” between Persia, Russia, and...

Highlighting and Commenting upon the Findings of Two Scholarly Articles and One Expert Commentary By Dr. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON | 26.09.2011 Blurb: "This review explores the major contributions of three recent...

BY PATRICIA ELGERSMA** | 06.09.2011 Introduction In recent decades the Canadian public have heard a number of apologies from various governments and institutions. The apology to Japanese Canadians (1988) and...

BY GHALI HASSAN | 24.07.2011 A majority of Americans believe America is an “exceptional” nation and “a shining beacon of democracy and hope to a dark world”. But, reliable and...

BY PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR | 24.07.2011 It is only fitting that the current British government unveils a new statue of Ronald Reagan, while a war rages in Libya, a country...

BY DR. AYLA GOL** | 08.06.2011 It was a bullet that killed a terrorist and revived a presidency. On the morning of May the second 2011, the world woke up...

BY DR. AKIN UNVER** | 14.04.2011 “Is Islam a ‘democratic’ religion?” “Is Islam compatible with democracy?” “What is the relationship between religion and governance in a Muslim country?” For the past...