North America Archive
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Obama’s Foreign Policy and Ukraine: Decoupling Security and Democracy
Posted on March 5, 2014“I don’t really even need George Kennan right now,” commented Barack Obama in a recent interview concerning his foreign policy strategy. The admission was a curious one. Not only because Kennan ... -
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Pathogens, Planes, and Panic: The U.S. and Global Health Security
Posted on February 27, 2014A pandemic nearly always guarantees a big headline as it leaves us wondering where we went disastrously wrong in our perceptions. The 2004 SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak that ... -
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The War on Drugs: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Posted on November 24, 2013From the looks of it, one of San Diego’s industrial-looking warehouses, sitting above ground, seem to echo business as usual—yet it masks a much harsher reality, penetrating deep into the ... -
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Kyrgyzstan after the closure of Manas Transit Center
Posted on November 12, 2013After years of negotiations, threatened evictions, and rent hikes, the Kyrgyz national government has settled on the decision to evict the United States from the Manas Transit Center at Manas ... -
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Merkel and the NSA: Diplomatic shock waves crossing the Atlantic
Posted on October 30, 2013The transatlantic relations have hit a low, the deepest in living memory. Whereas the invasion of Iraq represented diverging opinions on foreign policy between several European states on the one ... -
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Is a change in the US’s North Korea policy overdue?
Posted on October 25, 2013North Korea presents difficult challenges for US foreign policy. The six-party talks which attempted to put a stop to North Korea’s nuclear programs, and involved major players in the region, ... -
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A Farther East: Why the US Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love China
Posted on October 17, 2013The 21st century will be the century of Asia. The incredible economic growth of China, building on the 20th century successes of Japan and the Asian Tigers, signals a shift ... -
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Constructing (a) political reality through corporate soft power
Posted on October 13, 2013For those not privy to such information, Blackberry, the Waterloo, Canada based phone/software provider is in trouble of falling as a publically traded company. The downhill spiral is complex and ... -
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A Game Changer in Cyberspace: Has the Balance Tipped in Favor of China?
Posted on July 18, 2013The U.S.-China summit held on June 8th was a venue for U.S. President Obama to discuss and perhaps even confront China on its aggressive activities in cyberspace. After all, China ... -
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PRISM, Tempora and Creeping Authoritarianism on the Internet
Posted on June 27, 2013Due to Edward Snowden’s leaks, we now know that the United States and United Kingdom are monitoring communications data on a massive scale. I presume that everyone has read enough ...