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Foreign Policy Lessons from the Private Sector: Five Minutes with Senator Chuck Hagel
GJIA: Senator Hagel, you co-founded Vanguard Cellular and were also president of the McCarthy Group. How did a career in the private sector prepare you for your time as a United…
December 2, 2011
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Morocco’s Parliamentary Elections: More of the Same
The results themselves are not particularly surprising. The Justice and Development Party (PJD), a moderate Islamist party, won the largest share of seats (107 out of 395) while…
December 1, 2011
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South China Sea Conflict May Escalate Due to Energy Insecurity
As for China, the government has been unable to legitimate its sovereignty claims due to competing claims by the other powers. Furthermore, China needs to maintain a peaceful…
November 1, 2011
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Salinity Issues in Bangladesh
Supporting 156,000,000 people is a difficult task, and with a population density of almost 3,000 people per square mile, and 40% of its population living below the poverty line,…
October 24, 2011
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Rationality and Nuclear Weapons: Revisiting Kenneth Waltz
As a structural realist, Waltz’s beliefs are centered on the conception of states as unitary, rational actors. He argues that states seek survival above all else. This interest…
October 24, 2011
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On the Killing of Anwar al-Aulaki: Five Minutes with Dr Elizabeth Grimm
GJIA: Did al-Aulaki’s American citizenship, along with his native English, make him particularly effective as a jihadist evangelist and recruiter? Eg: Al-Aulaki’s…
October 24, 2011
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Strategic Optimism and the Arab Spring
These bloody events are tragic and ominous – but they are not a reason to give up on the Arab Spring. The popular protests that swept the Arab world this year are still the…
October 24, 2011
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Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea Warrants Tough US Response
With much of the world’s attention fixed on the Middle East, China has aggressively positioned itself as the dominant force in the resource-rich South China Sea. Laying claim…
October 24, 2011
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Indo-Pakistani Trade Pact: Pakistan’s Win-Win Situation
On 26 September 2011, India and Pakistan engaged in a fresh round of trade diplomacy. Islamabad heralded the talks as the beginning of a ‘golden era’ in trade…
October 24, 2011
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Jürgen Habermas on “Myth & Religion”
As a public intellectual he has also offered arguments in public debates about the “Historians’ Quarrel” in Germany, the role of religion in public life and the future of…
October 24, 2011