Ending a war can be more time-consuming and challenging than starting one, especially the so-called global war on terror that has defied conventional notions. Harold Hongju Koh, professor of law and former dean of Yale Law School, describes how the war on terror transformed into endless war in this...
OXFORD: From both the left and the right, three common misperceptions have emerged about US foreign policy: First, that the Global War on Terror has become a perpetual state of affairs; second, that no strategy is available to end this conflict in...
As North Korea plans to launch a long-range missile, the US threatens sanctions and military intervention. But public policy Professor Chung Min Lee asserts that it may be too late to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Analysts suggest that the country has enough weapons-grade plutonium for a...
Will he, won't he? The world watches and waits for North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's decision on the test launch of a long-range missile
SEOUL: As the world holds its breath on the possibility of a North Korean...
France signed a contract with Russia in 2011 to build and deliver two warships. Since then, Russia wrested control of Crimea and intervened in Eastern Ukraine. France dearly wanted to complete the deal, but faces intense scrutiny for supplying military hardware and technology to Russia while...
Cause and consequence: Russian intervention in Ukraine (top) has led France to cancel sale of two Mistral helicopter carriers; the challenge is to find another buyer
WASHINGTON: Over the past nine months, as Europe was shaken by Russian adventurism...
All of President Obama’s internationalist and multi-lateral policies may come to naught if he cannot convince Americans that such a strategy is in their best interest. Moreover, if American public opinion cannot be reversed, an insular country could erode US international standing and weaken its...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is pursuing an internationalist agenda. He has escalated America’s military commitment in Afghanistan. He supports a global climate change treaty. He has promised to revamp US immigration policy. And he backs...
Some Chinese scholars point to the 5th century BC as possible model that “under a virtuous China one could return to the golden age,” explains political science professor June Teufel Dreyer in her excerpt from a longer paper to be published by The Journal of Contemporary China. As suggested by...
Search for harmony under the heaven: Western image of China's imperial court (top); Ming emperor Hongwu, though, did not get the horses he wanted the Koreans to send as tribute
MIAMI: With China reemerging as a dominating economic and military...
The blockbuster "Kill Bill" films exemplify the increasingly global nature of Hollywood, and not solely because of director Quentin Tarantino's heavy incorporation of foreign stylistic elements, writes media scholar Christina Klein. Like a growing number of Hollywood productions,...
"Kill Bill: Vol. 2" is a money-maker for Miramax, but also for the production team that helped produce it outside the US. (Photo: Miramax films)
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" opened strong...
Bowing to pressure from the US and other nations, Iran has announced that it will suspend nuclear enrichment for "an interim period" to help "create a new atmosphere of trust and confidence between Iran and the international community". Meeting with the foreign ministers of...
Iran has agreed to suspend its disputed uranium enrichment programme and allow tougher UN inspections of its nuclear sites, after talks on Tuesday with British, French and German foreign ministers in Tehran....
Postsecondary education, regarded as essential in a competitive global job market, is credited for increasing prosperity for individuals and their communities. Greater numbers of students pursue higher education, but rising costs of college force many to rely on loans. Tuition for attending a...
Debt relief? Tuition rates vary around the globe; payment is the responsibility of students and families in countries like the United States, where the average debt for 2016 graduates is $37,000, while students have fewer worries in Finland, one of...
