The success of the US-Iran nuclear talks shows the limits of the Obama doctrine in accomplishing the kind of social change that many reformists would like to see.
The growing reliance on drones highlights the Western requirement for precision, accountability, and a reduction in collateral damage
Rather than a ‘mask’ for a decapitated sovereign, fashion diplomacy provides a sartorial symbolic form for this sovereignty, making it visible and appreciable.
Nicholas Kristof discusses the Syrian Civil War, the attitudes of US Presidential Candidates towards refugees, and the challenges of reporting from war-torn countries.
The US needs to set new patterns of behavior now so as to instantiate them, make them routine and hard to break in the future, no matter who is in the White House.
Perhaps it is only a matter of time before the levee breaks and U.S. capital floods into Cuba. If so, marginalized portions of the population understandably worry about falling further behind.
The center of US foreign policy is to the right of Obama post bin Laden and to the left of George W. Bush. That is where you will find the leading candidates for 2016.
Obama is writing history in US-Cuba relations. Yet, the duration and pace of the appeasement with Havana and its evolution is linked to Cuba’s internal political changes.
Professor Zabala shares his insights on the irrelevance of nationality, the continuing relevance of Marx, and explains how Hugo Chávez bears similarities to Barack Obama.
It could be naive to think that Obama’s openings to Cuba were just a move to improve relations without expecting any reciprocation in terms of democracy and human rights.
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