La Apertura – U.S. Initiates Diplomatic Relations with Cuba After 53 Years

Cuban cigars, baseball players seeking asylum, chrome plated cars in pastels, and those thirteen days of October 1962 which almost pitted the world to the brink of nuclear war. For the past fifty-three years these are the things… Read More

The Cuban Embargo – An Ineffective Tool

The Cuban embargo began as retaliation against Fidel Castro’s expropriation of around $1.6 billion worth of American property in the early 1960s.[1] The embargo functioned as a way to pressure Cuba to sever its ties to the Soviet… Read More

Turkey/Cyprus Dispute

By: Daniel Mengisteab In 2011 the discovery of a substantial natural gas reserve off the coast of Cyprus was thought to have brought renewed hope in the reunification of the island of Cyprus as well as Turkey’s ascension… Read More

Can/Should the U.S. Use Targeted Attacks Against Boko Haram?

  During the first weeks of January 2015, the fundamentalist, Islamist, terror organization, Boko Haram, reportedly killed an estimated 2,000 innocent people in Nigeria.[1]  During that same week, claimed members of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)… Read More

Responsibility to Protect: Nigeria

By: Kevin Prucino In 2001 the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty first articulated the principle of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) in its report “The Responsibility to Protect” released in December of 2001.  The report addressed state… Read More