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Torture And The CIA: An Examination Of The Senate Intelligence Committee Report
The recent publishing of a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee has caused a storm in Washington, and a flurry of worldwide political and public reactions. In the wake of the revelations that the CIA, under the auspices ...
Ensuring Best Practices In Guatemalan Integration: Guatemalan Or Foreign Responsibility?
As a Canadian grad student interested in Central American integration, I moved to Guatemala for a few months to work on my Masters thesis. I had been studying Guatemalan policy, mining laws and economic issues in Guatemala for ...
Confessing The Sins Of Consociationalism: Democracy in Lebanon
Lebanon has been debating the creation of a new electoral system since the end of its civil war in 1990, but with new elections scheduled for 2014, the country needs to reach a decision on how it plans to reform group represent...
The Disturbing Story Of An Honour Killing That Will Make You Realise It’s Time For Concrete Change
Twenty thousand honour killings take place around the world every year. 20,000. Take a moment to let that number sink in – because it seems almost unbelievable that we live in a world with so much hate and cruelty that th...
Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2
At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
Collapse Of Libya: The Making Of A Failed State?
Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi was one of the earliest dictators to be ousted by civil uprisings in the context of the Arab Spring. Once the nation’s capital Tripoli fell to rebel forces on 20 August 2011, it was onl...
