The Obama administration pursued mega-regional trade deals in the Trans-Pacific region as well as between the United States and the European Union. Automation and technology are the major reasons for the decline in US jobs, not free trade agreements. Workers without a college education who have not recovered from the Great Recession constitute the major opposition to free trade agreements. To counter this trend, states need to end ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and promote the transparency of the international financial system.
Inequality and Modernization, Ronald Inglehart, Foreign Affairs, The author states that the continued rise of inequality is pushing economic issues back to the top of the political agenda. The essence of modernization is the linkages between economic, social, ideational, and political issues. Vasseur, Foreign Affairs, There will be profound implications for linking the digital and physical worlds, where the Internet will transmit actual things.
Europe can only meet its security challenges when it abandons its fantasy of continental unity and embraces its geopolitical pluralism. Roy Laishley, Africa Renewal Online, Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign governments and multinationals in Africa represent a new form of neocolonialism. Land grabs can have negative effects on the ability of African governments to increase food production. There is insufficient land for its burgeoning population which relies heavily on farming for its subsistence.
Burundi is one of the most densely populated and poor countries in the world. Liberia already was a fragile, post-conflict society emerging from a violent civil war.
The author concludes with the lessons learned on how to promote development in a post-conflict society that has experienced an epidemic. ISIS continues to focus on sectarian war as its priority in waging war with extreme brutality and violence.
Gioe, The National Interest, In attempting to degrade and destroy ISIS, the United States has enjoyed tactical victories, but the author argues that a strategic victory has eluded it. The United States needs to apply the lessons learned from military history, ranging from the American Revolutionary War to the Vietnam conflict. Obama and Terrorism: Like It or Not, the War Goes On, Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, The author writes that Obama has continued the war against terrorism and violent extremism with targeted killings, aid to allied and indigenous forces, and intensive electronic surveillance.
Obama has relied heavily on armed drones to a much greater extent than the Bush administration. Fixing Fragile States, Dennis Blair et al. Much of the threat stems from fragile states with weak institutions, higher rates of poverty, and deep ethnic, religious, or tribal divisions. Klare, Current History, Prospects for conflict over disputed borders have declined, but conflict over maritime boundaries is growing.
A major reason for these conflicts is energy consumers are increasingly reliant on offshore oil and gas deposits. Water Wars: A Surprisingly Rare Source of Conflict, Gregory Dunn, Harvard International Review, Competition for access to the increasingly scarce resource of freshwater has surprisingly been mostly resolved through peaceful means via negotiated treaties.
China will attempt to dominate Asia as a regional hegemon. Why Still Matters, Norman Friedman, The US Naval Institute Proceedings, There is a similarity in the outbreak of war between the United Kingdom and Germany in and the possibility of war between the United States and China given that both cases involved a naval arms race that challenged the trading hegemon.
The Utility of Cyberpower, Kevin L. Parker, Military Review, The focus is on the relationship between cyberpower and cyberspace as the military seeks to defend the national security of the United States against cyberattacks. Then it was controlled by the military. Turkey is now a prosperous post-Ottoman state with a global presence and reactive foreign policy.
The year has seen an increase in the quantity and intensity of Russian military provocations against the Baltic States, which has also raised concerns in Poland, Finland, and Sweden. The international verification regime is not effective.
The United States should update the Cold War policy of deterrence to ensure that Iran does not violate the agreement. North Korea seeks a peace treaty before meeting the US preconditions of democratization, and will not be brought to the bargaining table by sanctions.
Malin and Nickolas Roth, Arms Control Today, The last Nuclear Summit that met in Washington, DC in covered a range of areas such as insider threats, transport security, the minimization of the use of highly enriched uranium and cybersecurity.
The summit focused on the problem of protecting usable nuclear materials such as plutonium from falling into the hands of terrorists and thieves. Corruption can lead to the collapse of the Chinese Communist party and the downfall of the state. Corruption is a deeply rooted cultural phenomenon. Over one million Armenians perished in the genocide. For strategic reasons, because Turkey is a major US ally, Washington refuses to use the G-word to describe the great catastrophe which befell the Armenians.
Race in the Modern World: The Problem of the Color Line, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Foreign Affairs, The author discusses various efforts that have been made over the years to define race, with a great deal of emphasis placed on the work of W.
Du Bois. Du Bois discussed race as a transnational phenomenon as illustrated by demonstrations in Nigeria protesting the shooting by a police officer of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri.
Democracy and Its Discontents, John Shattuck, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Illiberal democracy, which places more emphasis on national identity and centralization of power in the state, marks a regression from the values of pluralism of liberal democracy.
East European states such as Poland and Hungary have rejected the values of liberal democracy as represented by the European Union. Lisa Urry, Lisa A. Urry, Michael Cain, Michael L. Cain, Steven Wasserman, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Peter Minorsky, Jane B. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp s.
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