The 1.5 Trillion Dollar Question
Joint Committee Meeting of Religious and Disarmament NGO’s on Military Spending On March 9th, 2011, the Committee of Religious NGOs and the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security held a joint meeting at Church Center to discuss excessive global military expenditures, explore ways to divert the money towards other global crises an ...
Events
CUNY BA Conference on the Political Future of Iran October 17, 2012 The panelists are Iranian journalist and political dissident Roozbeh MirEbrahimi, Laura Secor of the New Yorker, NYU Professor Arang Keshavarzian, Baruch College Professor Ervand Abrahamian, and Barry Rosen, State Department Press Attaché in Tehran in 1979 and hostage during the ...
Riyal Politick
The abundance of oil has been a blessing for the Saudi Regime and its survival. Oil has turned Saudi Arabia into a Rentier state and has allowed the monarchy to coerce domestic compliance by heavily funding the security and police apparatus, to persuade citizens of its political and religious legitimacy and to exchange loyalty through the wide sca ...
US-China Trade Deficit: A Result of Changing International Distributions of Power
The trade deficit between the United States and China can be explained by the changing international distributions of power. The United States is descending from its position as the hegemon due to its waning influence in world politics and China is ascending in its influence and stature in world politics. This phenomenon has created an imbalance i ...
Guardians of Turkish Democracy
Turkish democracy is deeply rooted in the struggle between religious tradition and secularism. The Turkish military has constantly pushed to safeguard democracy through secular principles of the West and the religious right has aimed to safeguard democracy through the moral principles of Islam. Both the military and the Islamist Parties work in tan ...
