According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent.
Posts Tagged: United States
When states dream, is Syria their nightmare?
Astounding increases in the danger of nuclear weapons have paralleled provocative foreign policy decisions that needlessly incite tensions between Washington and Moscow.
Amid rising violence and a dead-end peace process, could the Palestinian leader actually make good on his threat to pull out of the Oslo Accords?
Convergence theory predicted that the world would become like Swedish social democracy. Why has the opposite happened?
Like Iran, South Africa doesn’t like being told what to do with its nuclear material by the United States, a country rich in all things nuclear.
The countries of the former Warsaw Pact are not knuckling under to pressure from Russia. They're trying to avoid a new cold war.
The Philippines and Vietnam are natural allies in their common territorial struggles against China. But they should leave Washington out of it.
In the United States and throughout North America, NAFTA has accelerated the industrial consolidation of agriculture and pushed out smaller, more sustainable food producers.
As he enters his second term, Barack Obama must confront the role of 'strategic patience' as a central driver of our current crisis in Korea.