The Spider Web of a War – The Current Situation in Syria
As contextualized by the consistent back and forth of questions and confusion in the DPhiE pledge class for this week’s international...
A City at the Crossroads
Hong Kong: a modern metropolis. The most visited city in the world. A hub of commerce and innovation. All that could be destroyed over...
Central American Minors encounter Cold War and Anti Drug Policy
In 2014, US Customs and Border Protection apprehended 46,932 children from Central America at the US-Mexico border. The unaccompanied...
Corruption and Leadership – A Brief History of Syria and How We Got to the Syrian Civil War
When the last remaining French forces pulled out of Syria, a former French Mandate since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, it was seen as a...
After years of leadership in Mid East, Turkey “in ruins” by comparison on domestic, Syrian front
Despite years of strengthening ties with Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, Turkey has become a...
Post-Independence Urban Infrastructures and Environmental Policy in Africa
The 1960s in Africa coincided with the independence of most of sub-Saharan Africa and the rise of new African states with Nigeria,...
Exportation of Terrorism
The populations in our massively globalized societies of the world are slowly becoming accustomed to interactions with one-another. It’s...
The Beginning of the End
As of October 2015, the United States is scheduled to decrease the number of troops in Afghanistan from 9,800 to 5,500 by the time...
Two Tigers, One Mountain: A (Very) Brief Introduction to Sino-Japanese Relations
For two thousand years, China and Japan have existed in relative peace and harmony. This is not unexpected, as China and Japan share...
Cuba: Does modernization lead to democratization?
US-Cuba Relations (Recap of the last 55 years) In April, 2015 both President Obama and President Castro greeted each other with a hand...