Nov 14, 2012 | Articles
Over the last week, China has been undergoing a once-in-a-decade leadership transition. It is an event that will have major implications for China’s neighbors in Southeast Asia. Given this, it might be worthwhile to review the changing appreciation of the momentous...
Nov 8, 2012 | Articles
Washington, DC, Nov 7, 2012–The polls had pointed to a very close election, and those of us who gathered around a television set here in a friend’s house in Washington, D.C., expected to be up till 3 a.m. to find out the final results. But by around 11:15 p.m. (US...
Oct 29, 2012 | Articles
As many pundits have noted, if the rest of the world were voting in the US elections, the third presidential debate would probably have proceeded differently. America, the Exception But given the fact that only about 200 plus million people on earth are eligible to...
Oct 22, 2012 | Articles
The world will soon enter the 6th Year of the Great Recession, and there is no end in sight. In the United States, stagnation continues to reign and some 23 million Americans remain out of work, are involuntarily employed part time, or have simply dropped out of the...
Sep 24, 2012 | Articles
(This article was co-authored with Richard Javad Heydarian.*) Almost 18 months after the onset of popular-democratic protests, the Syrian revolution increasingly resembles a bloody marathon with no clear finish line on the horizon. Unlike the “lightning” revolutions...
