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Too Big To Fail: What Next For US-Pakistani Relations?
2018 started on the worst possible note for US-Pakistani relations. Donald Trump’s inaugural tweet accused…
Looking Ahead: America’s Role in the UN
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration at the start of this year, America’s foreign policy has experienced a…
Against Proportional Representation
Europe's political world was shocked to learn that Christian Lindner, head of Germany's Free Democratic Party…
Travel Woes: High-Profile Individuals and Denied Entry…
One might think international travel would be a benefit of achieving some degree of celebrity status. However, the…
An Assault on the State Department
Donald Trump's State Department has been one of controversy and bipartisan criticism. Beginning with the surprise…
Frenemies: The Secretive Saudi/Israeli Relationship
Throughout the history of international diplomacy and geopolitics, appearance and reality are quite divided. Often,…
America’s Retreat: Russian and Chinese Leadership in the…
Editor's Note: This article is the second of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA)…
The Taliban: Looming Kingpins of Afghan Opium
What the Afghan government and other actors hoped would be a period of stabilization and decline, or at least…
America’s Retreat: Russian and Chinese Leadership in the…
Editor's Note: This article is the first of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA) shifting…
An Iranian Arab Spring?
Recent anti-government protests this month have engulfed over 80 cities in Iran, as thousands of predominantly…
Water and Politics in Central Asia
"Water resources could become a problem in the future that could escalate tensions not only in our region, but on…
Fighting Climate Change with Seaweed: The Kelp is Always…
The Need for Seaweed
Seaweed has for centuries been a staple of human diets all over the world, bringing rich…