Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
Howard French, Columbia University April 28, 2017 For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights,...
Americans and the World: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Why Americans Can’t See ‘Others’ at All: Case in Point, the Middle East
Dr. Adam Garfinkle, American Interest Magazine March 19, 2017 (Sun) From the earliest days, we Americans have had a special way of looking at the world derived from Anglo-Protestant religious traditions and the ideas of the Enlightenment. We are optimistic, and...
US and the Arab World: The Significance of a Broken Relationship
Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Rice University February 26, 2017 Recent American involvement in the Arab world has been vexed, controversial and violent. It has led to both rampant anti-Arab sentiment and Islamophobia in the United States and to anti-Americanism in the Middle...
The United States as a World Power: How It Got There and What Is Its Future
Dr. Noel Pugach, UNM January 20, 2017 Foreign relations specialists, public intellectuals and politicians have been debating the decline of American power, its causes, and America’s future role in world affairs. A few advocate further retrenchment and even a return to...
Nobel Prize Through the Prism of Russian Writers
Dr. Natasha Kolchevska, UNM January 8, 2017 What does it take to win the Nobel prize in literature —does it matter if you write fiction, poetry or non-fiction–or some combination of the above? Do you take daring political risk or does it suffice to be an...
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