Notes from Speech by the NATO Secretary General
Notes from Conversation with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg Antone Christianson-Galina- Ritz Carlton April 6, 2016 Main Challenges: Revanchist Russia, …
Making Sense of the Tangled Alliances fighting ISIS
In theory, more direct intervention by Middle Eastern powers would be the best way to combat the Islamic State (See https://blog.richmond.edu/globalgovernance/2016/02/22/why-less-direct-us-intervention-with-isil-and-more-middle-eastern-intervention-is-key/ ). …
Anti-Slavery as a Justification for Imperialism
The song Facetta Nera, or Black Faced-Girl, became popular in Italy during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. The song and …
Origins of Universal Human Rights
At the beginning of the 3rd century BCE, the stoic philosopher Zeno of Cilium introduced the idea of Universal Human Rights in …
Syrian Hitler!? (or not)
How did president of Syria Bashar Al-Assad go from villain that the US must destroy (Fall 2013) to ally against the Islamic …