By Pratik Chougule on September 9, 2007
Finsbury Park, North London
Stepping off the subway at Finsbury Park, the change in scenery could not have been more acute. Just an hour earlier, I had been awed by the grandeur of Big Ben, towering over the British Houses of Parliament. It is the symbol of the England in our history books: a beacon of [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Linda Zang on September 9, 2007
It is high summer in Washington, and there is one heck of a storm brewing on the banks of the Potomac River. Across the nation’s capital, senators and presidential candidates are lining up at the lectern to advocate a foolhardy policy of early withdrawal from Iraq. Politicians from both sides of the aisle are willfully [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Boris Ryvkin on September 9, 2007
America lies prostrated between two flawed extremes in its conflict with Radical Islam. The first, viewing the threat as largely organizational, holds the neutralization of individual Islamist groups as the most effective way to check the ideology’s expansion. While advantageous in limiting the scope of attack, this approach ignores the cultural and political circumstances that [...]
Posted in International | Tagged September 2007, Volume VI Number I
By Boris Ryvkin on May 1, 2007
For all of the idealism and movements toward integration that have been guiding modern states, national interest must remain preeminent. Unless states can attain their strategic objectives, both economic and military, in the world’s most geopolitically relevant regions, the rhetoric of idealism will remain meaningless. The end of the Cold War presented the United States [...]
Posted in International | Tagged May 2007, Volume V Number VII
By Boris Ryvkin on February 1, 2007
Something to consider when assessing the Communist experience is whether thievery exists in gradations. We generally identify thieves as petty, common criminals, seeking material wealth and a quick improvement in their social lot. Modern society has seen the term “robber baron” enter its lexicon, where a corporate executive and his majority shareholders manipulate international markets [...]
Posted in International | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Boris Ryvkin on February 1, 2007
The State of Israel is in an incredibly tenuous position. The debate surrounding Israel’s interests has shifted more in the last decade than perhaps at any other time in its history, with horrific consequences. A breakdown in Israeli leadership has gone hand in hand with a mismanagement of the military and a compromise on [...]
Posted in International | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Boris Ryvkin on November 16, 2006
On April 10, 1947, a group of economists and business leaders gathered at the Mont Pelerin Resort in the Swiss Alps for a conference organized by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. Hayek had invited international scorn with the publishing of his landmark Road to Serfdom. He advanced the argument that Socialism and Nazism had a common [...]
Posted in International | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Pratik Chougule on November 16, 2006
In his stirring Second Inaugural Address, President Bush vowed that it is “the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” Troubles in the Iraq war, however, have instigated a broader [...]
Posted in International | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Drew Edwards on October 20, 2006
On October 5th, the Watson Institute for International Studies broadcast a day-long series of discussion panels entitled “Guantanamo: How Should We Respond?” The various speakers at the event provided a fairly direct, if perhaps rather shortsighted, answer to this question: we should either shut the place down immediately, or else bring it entirely within the [...]
Posted in International | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III
By Pratik Chougule on October 6, 2006
The popular perception of the Cold War lends itself to the idea that during this time innocent lives were destroyed amidst the irrational fear of Communist subversion. In this narrative, Sen. Joseph McCarthy is the main villain. Typified as a bumbling liar and rightwing opportunist, the term McCarthyism has gained acceptance in American political dialogue [...]
Posted in International | Tagged October 2006, Volume V Number II
