The Sanctions Fallacy: Iran and Japan
By Elsa Kania
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Inside Iran’s Nuclear Program
An examination of domestic dynamics surrounding the program
By Elsa Kania
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Afghanistan in the Media
Media coverage of, interest in, and justification for America's longest-running war.
By Sandra Korn
New Feminism in Iran
The Middle East’s most tumultuous women’s rights movement
By Caitlin Pendleton and Olivia Zhu
Rebutting Relativism in Beit Shemesh
Marina is right to note that the West is far from blameless in its routine objectification of women as sex objects. But let’s not rush to draw equivalencies with religious fundamentalists.
Beit Shemesh, Misogyny, and Building a Jewish Democracy
Neither the ultra-Orthodox nor the secular sector in Israel is innocent of gender discrimination.
After Kim Jong-il: The Chinese Take
China has already shown how the influence it has over North Korea can be used to promote policy change.
2011: Five Things I Learned This Year
I’ll speak as a humble world editor and share five things that I learned about the world in 2011, ranging from common fallacies about the Arab Spring to the shape of the human evolutionary family tree.
A Year for Killing Dictators?
Fatigue is about the most natural cause of death I can think of. Nonetheless, in the past few hours, Kim Jong-Il’s death has repeatedly been compared to the recent politicized deaths of other anti-American global leaders.
China and Belarus: A Special Relationship
The People’s Republic keeps Europe’s last dictatorship afloat
Delusions of Sovereignty
The choice Europe faces is not between a less integrated and a more integrated Eurozone, but between an effectively integrated Eurozone or none at all.
The True Governments of Somalia
Somaliland may be the most stable and smoothest functioning democracy that officially does not exist.
Great Expectations for UN Climate Talks in Durban
While the U.S. flounders in the face of irreversible danger, climate finance and mitigation remain possible hopes
7 Billion and Counting: A Problem and an Answer
Why rising world population does not necessarily spell catastrophe.
