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Caught between Poverty and Politics: Undocumented Migrants in Greece
Photo Essay by Stephen Boyle* In Greece, mismanaged immigration policies, an incompetent, bureaucratic, and sluggish asylum system, an unprecedented and catastrophic economic crisis, and continuing or increasing instability in nearby Africa, Asia and elsewhere have resulted in high levels of undocumented immigration in recent years. Determining accurate numbers of the undocumented in Greece has proved [...]
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Growing Up Cambodian: Childhood and Crisis Three Decades after the Khmer Rouge
Photo Essay by Nathan William Meyer* It was Year Zero. Books were burned, religion outlawed, money abolished, schools closed, and teachers, doctors, and lawyers killed. Wearing glasses or speaking a foreign language was crime enough to merit death. Families were turned out of homes, cities emptied, and a nation was slowly worked to death in [...]
What Should CPC Learn from Bo’s Removal?
By Wen Rixin* The biggest upheaval on the Chinese political stage this spring was the abrupt removal of Bo Xilai from the post of party secretary in southwestern Chongqing Municipality. The event’s shocking nature has to do not only with its timing but also with the way the dismissal took place. As is well-known, the [...]
Misunderstanding Rationality: The Failure of Sanctions against Iran
By Nikolaj Werk* Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the US has almost constantly employed sanctions against Iran. With stricter rounds recently enforced by the EU and US in response to Iran’s nuclear proliferation program, it is worth reflecting on the way we think about sanctions as a foreign policy tool. The West urgently has [...]
