Author's Note: This is the second post of a three-part mini-series. Part one gives a background of the Iran-West nuclear conundrum, while part three will situate the Iranian nuclear program within the scope of current international relations. Most discussions on the Iranian...
Author's Note: This is the first post of a three-part mini-series. Part two will discuss Iran's alleged interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, while part three will situate the Iranian nuclear program within the scope of current international relations. “Let me be clear […]...
The Republic of Turkey is by all accounts a rising national power. Internationally, Turkey is well regarded as a founding member and active participant in several international organizations: NATO in 1949, OECD in 1961 and G20 in 1999. Regionally, Turkey had until very...
What has become of the Arab-Israeli peace process? Recent years have seen little to no progress, though several opportunities have presented themselves. The Annapolis Summit in 2007 formally established the two-state solution, to which both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
Not one media commentator can agree on the exact date when the South China Morning Post’s progression from relevance to inconsequence began, but it’s certainly been an incremental process. Considered one of the best papers in Asia, and certainly the best English Language...
Starting off as a series of pacifist protests, the conflict in Syria has escalated into a full-blown civil war by anyone’s measure. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) attributes the daily attacks on government forces to “terrorists” who have been fighting to overthrow...
When Kim Jong-il passed away last December the world waited to see what his successor would be like. Very little was known about Kim Jong-un; even trivial details such as his appearance and age were a mystery. There was much global speculation as to whether Kim Jong-un would...
President Obama’s energy policy has recently come under fire by Mitt Romney and other Republican Party members – especially in the House of Representatives. In recent litigation over the federal energy policy, the House of Representatives requested the Obama administration...
On the 4th of June every year since 1989, Hong Kong holds the largest annual Tiananmen Square protests on the globe; tens of thousands of democracy protestors, as well as people who just want to remember what happened, fill up Victoria Park in the central suburb of Causeway Bay....
In the midst of the repressive Syrian regime’s all-out war against rebels and revolutionaries, the strategic Arab state of Lebanon has struggled to maintain its sovereignty and avoid entanglement in neighbouring Syria’s internal crises. Lebanon has constantly lived in the...
CBC | Top Stories News
