Watching another glorious sunrise emerge above the pandamus trees as I sip coffee on my balcony, it is difficult to accept that former colleagues in the national security field think of this island of Guam merely as “the tip of the spear” of U.S. military power targeting East Asia. In effect, the 175,000 inhabitants of the island, their 3…

 
        From 1945 to date, the southern Kuril Islands (particularly Iturp, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habamai) have been a very frontier of Russo-Japanese battle of prestige. Over the last sixty-eight years, uncountable proposals to resolve the dispute have emerged from both sides; nevertheless, they all were…

It was on 30 August 2011, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) issued a landmark decision on a case of former comfort women claiming compensation from the Japanese government. In view of obtaining compensations for former comfort women, the Court ordered the South Korean Government “to take steps for dispute settlement…

Two-and-a-half-years into the Syrian conflict, the balance of power in the embattled state continues to evolve between the government of Bashar al-Assad and the opposition groups, composed of secularists, islamists, and Al Qaeda-trained jihadists. Since the beginning of the Damascus spring in March 2011, more than 100,000 Syrians fell victim to brutal…

Russian president Putin has just astonished the world by proposing that Assad´s chemical weapons be put under international control. Is this a cynical attempt to deflate the president´s eleventh hour appeal to the nation for a military strike? Has Assad signed on to this proposal? Is this another delaying tactic? Is it a phoenix that rose…

Welcome to Global Education Magazine! A digital magazine inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs), which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and UNHCR. An initiative launched by…

Coming to the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russian President Putin seemed to be  saying he would consider blessing a U.S. military strike against Syria if the U.N. proved Assad did the dirty WMD deed.  We won´t hold our breath.   Massacres are an Assad family tradition and Mr. Putin can  pin the blame on the rebels only…

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This paper applies the model by Jackson and Wolinsky [1996] to analyze co-authorship connections among Russian international relations scholars. By using data on almost a thousand researchers, I check whether the co-author network is over-connected with respect to utilitarian efficiency, as the model claims. My findings clearly…

In light of the recent developments in Syria and the apparently imminent US military intervention, the blog will take a short break from its relatively academic style and its thematic focus in order to brainstorm and share some thoughts on the broader picture of what is happening in the geopolitical arena of the region.        …

Dear Reader!
I would like to present to you a continuation of the previous post (in fact, an e-mail correspondence between the two minds) concerning the idea of 'polarity' and the use of other scientific terms in social science.
 
From: Dr.Fox@political_scientist.com
To: Popper@rational_critic.org
Topic: your commentary
 
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This simply was destiny. In our research trips to Europe my wife, Leni, and I sought only to address the issues of anti-Semitism and the holocaust as it affected our own families. We toured synagogues, death camps and memorials in numerous countries attesting to the slaughter of six million Jews. But in 2009, the unexpected happened. We visited the…

        The Soviet Union did not lose the Cold War; it was the United States who lost the Soviet Union. After the Soviet disintegration, it was America who felt a huge hole of nostalgia in her heart while the U.S. remained an important global power to new Russia. Historically, the U.S. has built its unprecedented prosperity through…