Twenty years ago, as the Berlin Wall was coming down and Eastern Europe was freeing itself of Soviet hegemony, an obscure academic named Francis Fukayama published an essay that would epitomize the spirit of the times:
“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular [...]
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Still the End of History?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Democracy, Political Theory, Post-Cold War on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No País para los Viejos
Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Given the most recent example of drug murders in Mexico, increasingly Cormac McCarthy’s seminal novel detailing violence along the US-Mexico border in 1980 seems to be coming to life. Though President Felipe Calderón instituted a major offensive against cartels upon his 2006 election, thus far the results have been more than decidedly mixed.
Last week recent [...]
Thüringen: The Party Elects the Government
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Germany, Matschie, SPD, Thüringen on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Taking a look at the elections results in Thüringen, Germany and applying them to the coalition negeotiations politics and the future of the SPD.
The J Street Contradiction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AIPAC, J Street on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
J Street — the new “pro-peace, pro-Israel” advocacy group touted as an alternative to AIPAC — is currently hosting its first conference. The run-up to the conference included much fanfare, some good and some bad. One Palestinian poet who was invited to speak at the conference was asked not to participate after it was learned [...]
Turkey Turning
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago, the Turkish government canceled the joint military exercise Anatolia Eagle because Turkey would not invite Israel, while the US refused to participate in an exercise that traditionally included the Israelis. While a departure from the norm, the diplomatic fracas between Turkey, Israel and the US is just the latest development in [...]
Proposition 1: The Maine Event
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2009 Elections, Maine, same-sex marriage on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maine’s upcoming Proposition 1 battle could have national implications.
By Any Other Name
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Health care reform may have just reached a major breakthrough—or not. Only time will tell if the so-called “public option opt out” will mend the irreconcilable differences some members of Congress have over reform. The opt out would basically allow states to discontinue the public option if they wanted to, down the road of course.
Advocates [...]
Paying Attention in Dirty Jersey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged campaigns, Governor's races, New Jersey, third world on October 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
New Jersey is used to being out of the national political spotlight, having spent most of the past half century as a giant strip mall with a beach for the eight million or so suburbanites crammed between New York and Philadelphia. New Jerseyans themselves are notoriously jaded when it comes to state politics, thanks to [...]
Baluch bombers kill Pasdaran officers
Posted in Iran, Uncategorized on October 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In the latest attack of a long-running conflict, Baluch terrorist group Jundallah killed dozens of Iranians, including five (or more) senior officers in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC, or Pasdaran). Jundallah’s previous record includes an assassination attempt on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, killing a busload of IRGC troops in Zahedan in 2007, and bombing a mosque [...]
