I saw this interesting article in the Financial Times earlier this week, and did not want to let it go by unmentioned. The journalist reports from some excerpts of a new Standard & Poor’s report on trade relations and economic growth be...
Writing on Slate.com, Fred Kaplan picks apart a recent op/ed signed by John Yoo and John Bolton recommending that the U.S. Senate put off ratification of the new START treaty with Russia. While there are parts that are more convincing than o...
Who doesn’t love Brazil? Its raw beauty, bountiful human and natural resources, and strong economy have helped make it the democratic pearl of the BRIC nations. Few other countries have enjoyed such a prominent winning streak for...
With the Democrat’s loss of House majority this week, some eager and angry representatives have their eyes set on dismantling the replacement START treaty. From Josh Rogin on FP’s The Cable: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), one of three R...
Looks like the G20 is rapidly losing credibility, as core members Brazil and India have both spurned meetings this week ahead of the November summit in South Korea. There are some interesting factors pushing emerging BRIC nations away from t...
Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party at large have recently embarked upon a messianic crusade to attack opposition fundraising, invoking the time-honored tropes of classic populism. “It bothers me, all these unattributed contribut...
Declinism is a hot topic these days, and although the predictions have been so comically off-base in the past, it feels more real this time (just like every time). Maybe those kooky experts that RT regularly digs up are actually on the vangu...
In relation to our ongoing coverage of the rise of the BRIC economies, we’re grateful to present the following contribution on Brazil from Georges D. Landau, a professor of international relations from S. Paulo. One month before the election...
From Robert Amsterdam’s latest article on the Huffington Post: Most importantly, Bout is a picture perfect representation of “one of the men” currently in power in the Kremlin, and say what you will about Vladimir Putin, he is ve...
I have a persistent fascination with how U.S. domestic politics break down on the Russia debate, and seems now more clear than ever that there is no clear right-left split, for as much as many pundits wish to impose one. The most vigorous pr...
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