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A World Without Nukes

Addressing regional conflicts is at the heart of disarmament

No We Can’t? Searching for Obama’s Audacity in the Post-Midterm World

Immediately following the midterm elections, newspaper headlines from around the world told the tale of an American president embarrassingly “defeated” and “apologetic” of his...

The Power of an Endorsement

President Lula da Silva may have endorsed his chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, to be the next president of Brazil, but is she qualified?

U.S. Japan Relations: A Friendship Grown Cold

Just this week, the White House announced that during President Obama’s visit to Japan for APEC, he would not be stopping by Hiroshima and...

Poland: Disillusion Trumps Obama’s Popularity

On my first night living in Poland last summer, I asked my host mother, a 44-year-old Polish elementary schoolteacher and mother of two, her opinions...

Weighing In: China’s One-Child Policy: No U-Turn Ahead

This is a follow-up post on Alastair Su's blog post "Taking a Cue From Thailand's Mr Condom", looking specifically at China's one-child policy and...

Debunking Human Rights as “Anti-Chinese”

Last week's decision to award Chinese Liu Xiaobo with the Nobel Peace Prize was hailed by many around the world, but condemned by the...

Taking A Cue From Thailand’s Mr. Condom

Since its inception in 1978, China's one-child policy has always been marked by controversy. While the government has claimed that the policy has prevented...

Not our backyard but still our neighbors

With the gunshots subsiding and the police force under government censure for its attempted overthrow of Ecuador’s democratic president Rafael Correa, order appears to...

Ukraine’s Soul Search

Exactly eleven months ago yesterday I sat on a bus rattling its way through countryside on my way to L’viv, an artistic, cobblestone city in the...