Recent academic work has delivered a blow to the neoconservative agenda. Specifically, leading academics argue that past CIA interventions make countries less democratic, primarily benefiting U.S. corporations at the developing world’s expense. The results cast doubt on aggressive foreign policy’s ability to promote democracy abroad. Economists and political scientists have […]

In the following, “real estate-oriented tourism” means any tourism strategy that consists of encouraging people to buy real estate as a secondary residence. In her article “The Great Land Rush”, Arrianna Marie Coleman alerts us to the fact that small farmers are the first to suffer from new land deals […]

Protests under the slogan “We are all Greeks” were held across Europe on Saturday against the new bailout-austerity package for Greece. If the organizers’ Tumblr page had some impressive pictures, in the European Union’s de facto capital of Brussels the event was somewhat lackluster, gathering perhaps seventy-odd people, who were […]

The Occupy protesters know what they are articulating, but are nonetheless unable to provide a cogent alternative.

While oil may be a cause of corruption and unaccountable government in many countries, Norway has been able set aside its resource  wealth to invest in the country’s future. Norway has struck oil yet again, and each time there is a major oil discovery in Norway, the population is set to […]