Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy targets the developing world for future profits.
Let Them Eat Carbon
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Europe & Central Asia
It’s Always Been Too Easy to Justify Civilian Casualties
The rationale that Islamist extremists offer for civilian casualties is nothing new.
Red Mud and Other Messes
In 2010, Hungary suffered a massive toxic sludge spill, from which it’s still recovering.
Narendra Modi: Pragmatist or Ideologue?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a well-known Hindu nationalist. But on foreign policy, he seems more likely to show his pragmatic side.
Romania’s Fragile New Left
Unlike Poland, Hungary or Yugoslavia, Romania saw no critical socialist movement emerge in response to the orthodox Communists in power.
Fanning the Flames of Ukraine’s Disarray
Ukraine is in the throes of a human rights crisis, with serious violations on both sides.
Realism about the Obama Doctrine
Obama’s foreign policy legacy will not be secured unless he addresses head-on the belief that we have the power to achieve our objectives by threats, intimidation, and coercion.
Intrepid Swiss Public Rejects Purchase of State-of-the-Art Fighter Jets
It’s not their jet fighters the Swiss need to update, it’s their air-defense procedures.
Was Reagan’s Nuclear About-face at Reykjavik Genuine?
Were Reagan’s overtures to Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit ― soon to be a major motion picture ― in fact, disingenuous?
The First Roma Feminist
Roma women must confront not only the prejudices of society as a whole but also discrimination within traditional Roma families.