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July 27, 2010

Peter Sloterdijk and David Barash Look Back on Anger

In a recent issue of The Chronicle Review, three commentators explored the phenomenon of rage which seems to be a more dominant characteristic of American society than ever before. In his article Look Ahead in Anger: Hyperbolic rhetoric threatens to...

July 20, 2010

Siddharth Kara on the Trail of Human Trafficking

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (now available in paper), has begun a weekly column for CNN.com that will document his trip around South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking, and child...

June 30, 2010

Stephen Cohen on the Russian Spy Scandal

In an interview with CBS News, Stephen Cohen, most recently the author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, questions the timing of the arrests in the Russian spy scandal. More precisely, Cohen, who...

June 21, 2010

Laura Katz Olson — Can the Expansion of Medicaid Coverage Fulfill the Promise of Health Care Reform?

One of the key components in the recent health care reform bill was the extension of medicaid to cover low-income individuals. But is this the best way to provide health care? This is the question Laura Katz Olson, author of...

June 17, 2010

Vicken Cheterian on the crisis in Kyrgyzstan

“For if Kyrgyzstan fails as a state, and inter-ethnic violence … is not contained, the resulting security vacuum in Kyrgyzstan could threaten the fragile stability of central Asia as a whole.” — Vicken Cheterian, Open Democracy In an essay entitled...

June 4, 2010

Laura Katz Olson: Is Medicaid the best path to take for Health Care Reform?

The following post is by Laura Katz Olson, author of The Politics of Medicaid. As the only industrialized nation that does not have some type of universal health care, the United States has long been overdue for reform. Nevertheless, a...

June 1, 2010

Has Obama averted a new Cold War with Russia? Stephen Cohen weighs in.

At a recent talk at the Carnegie Council, Stephen Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, discussed some of the key features of his book as well as assessing Obama’s policy toward...

May 27, 2010

Victor Cha on the crisis in the Korean peninsula

“It was a clearly premeditated act. And it is the most serious act of aggression by the North against the South, military-to-military, since the end of the Korean War. I mean they’ve done terrorist acts that have killed more people,...

May 25, 2010

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef in the New Yorker and on Al Jazeera

Steve Coll’s fascinating article in this week’s New Yorker War by Other Means (subscription required) examines the current role of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the debates about whether or not the United States should negotiate with them. One of...

May 20, 2010

How to make peace with Iran — Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Earlier this week Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic and the forthcoming A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism, wrote an op-ed in Open Democracy calling for...

May 17, 2010

Guobin Yang on China's School Killings

The recent and horrific attacks on young children in rural schools in China have left the Chinese government and a slew of experts searching for answers. The spate of attacks was recently a topic on the New York Times’ Web...

May 11, 2010

My Life with the Taliban and other books for the new government in the UK

The Guardian recently asked a group of scholars, novelists, and other various experts to suggest books for the new government in the UK as they grapple with national debt, war in Afghanistan, climate change, and other thorny issues. Along with...

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