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The J Curve and Authoritarian Leadership Transitions

Ian Bremmer & Willis Sparks

Ian Bremmer touches on topics from his book The J Curve, examining the role of openness and stability on authoritarian regimes.Read Article

The Wrong Way to Combat Terrorism

Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, discusses leadership in international human rights. With the United States retreating from its historical role as a leader in human rights, the international stage needs new leaders to fight terrorism the right way.Read Article

Genetically Modified Food and Foreign Aid

Peter Singer

Peter Singer discusses the ethics of GMOs, food aid, and international development.Read Article

Offshore Balancing or International Institutions? The Way Forward for U.S. Foreign Policy

G. John Ikenberry & Stephen Walt

John Ikenberry and Steve Walt debate the future direction of foreign policy. Should the United States attempt to strengthen international institutions or should it try to balance threats abroad? Should the next president be realistic or idealistic?Read Article
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The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

G. John Ikenberry and Stephen Walt debate the framework, whether liberal or realist, that should guide the next president's foreign policy toward Iran, China, and the war on terror. Walt holds out hope for the next president to be realistic, while Ikenberry calls for a return to the international cooperation abandoned by the Bush administration.


Authoritarian Transitions

Authoritarian Transitions examines the changes we can expect with the departure of Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and other dominant leaders. Absent Fidel, can Cuba's communist regime maintain power? If Musharraf were assassinated today, what would Pakistan be tomorrow: a vibrant liberal democracy or an Islamic state? And what of future leadership transitions in other countries like North Korea, Russia, and Egypt?


Genetically Modified Food

Genetically Modified Food explores the scientific and political debates that will determine whether we will one day be eating mega-sized salmon and nutrient-infused rice. Ambiguity lies in genetic engineering's simultaneous promise of solving food shortage and threat of ecological havoc. GMOs have faced great resistance in Europe and abroad, sparking various trade disputes and the refusal of food aid by some African countries.


Space Politics

Space Politics looks upward at technological changes that increasingly affect the modern digital life of Google Earth at home and satellite navigators on the road. Some signs indicate a coming arms race or even conflict in space, with the United States' increasingly ambiguous stance on space weapons, and China's anti-satellite weapon test in early 2007.


Essays

In the Essays section, John Arquilla examines the newest threat to the nation-state system, networks; former U.S. senator Lincoln Chafee criticizes the Bush administration for its failure to push forward the Road Map peace plan; and Kenneth Roth discusses the loss of the United States as the global human rights leader.