Tag: Economics
A Free Trade Agreement Could Benefit the U.S.-Brazil Trade Relationship
by Peter Sufrin
Reporting on the Spread of HIV in China
by David Cowhig Chinese physician Dr. Wang Shuping predicted the HIV epidemic among Henan peasant blood sellers and eventually raised the alarm all the way to Beijing when local and provincial authorities ignored the rapid spread of HIV among the … Read more
The Marshall Plan: Seventy Years Since the Start of a Great Diplomatic Effort
by Thomas E. McNamara
The Limits of Opposition
A Case Study of U.S. Reflagging Operations During the Iran-Iraq War
by Christian Heller
Amendments to the Governance Structure of the Holy See and Canon Law during the European Migration Crisis
by Lóránd Ujházi1 Because of the current migration crisis the central organizations of the Catholic Church were forced to reflect upon more directly about the humanitarian, pastoral and policy aspects of the refugee issue. However, neither the annual speeches delivered … Read more
World War Two Provides the Indo/British Breaking Point
Essay by Jon Dorschner “India at War” (The Subcontinent and the Second World War) by Yasmin Khan, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-975349-9, 416 pp., $29.95 (Hardcover). India’s War (World War II and the Making of Modern … Read more
SITREP: What We Talk About When We Talk About Brazil
by Dick VirdenBrazil: An introduction to your Olympic host Brazil has been much in the news these days, and not in a good way. It’s the epicenter of the horrific Zika plague, its economy is reeling, corruption is out of … Read more
The Return of Antarctica and the Origins and Future of Potential Conflict
by Steve Dobransky
Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa
By Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/political-economic-and-security-situation-in-africa/ Reviewed by Renate Z. Coleshill, Foreign Service Officer, retired Thomas Joscelyn testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian … Read more
Debt, Defense, and Diplomacy
Foreign Policy Dilemmas before the President-Elect
by Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.
Extract: Southeast Asia–One year after the Outbreak of the Financial Crisis
– E X T R A C T – by David G. Brown Through the courtesy of the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Amb. Ron Palmer, we present in this issue excerpts from the … Read more