However ongoing Middle East and North Africa conflicts are resolved, most families in the Middle East and North Africa will still be living in or next to deserts. Water scarcity and conflicts within and...
“War was God’s way of teaching Americans geography” (Ambrose Bierce) For debaters researching US military commitments, there’s a big world out there and a couple centuries of US history to explore. Economists have argued...
Stoa league has Policy and LD topic choice with analysis: Spring Vote 2020. 1. Preliminary notes and links, first on foreign policy: Can this new think tank clean up America’s flabby foreign policy? (The...
Consider the NSDA immigration reform topic, the Stoa foreign aid reform topic, and all three NCFCA topics (West Africa, European Union, International Terrorism): what if a single case could resolve or at least shed...
It is very, very good news for the coming decades for hundreds of millions to find the path to prosperity. That path usually with a bus ticket to a city to look for work....
Nation-states can be more trouble than they’re worth. For the Middle East, federalism, soft-partition, enclaves, and charter cities offer non-state paths to peace and prosperity. The March NSDA Public Forum topic is “Resolved: The United States should no...
Resolved: The United States should significantly reform its policy toward one or more countries in the Middle East. U.S. Middle East policy has a problem with borders, as do the people of the Middle...
Virginia Postrel, in sharing on Facebook Anne Applebaum’s Washington Post article “War in Europe is not a hysterical idea,” comments: “I think we like to talk about ISIS b/c it’s less scary than Russia.”...
From the Introduction to the Economic Freedom of the Arab World 2014 Annual Report (pdf): A new economic vision is needed to help the Arab world move forward. The Arab Economic Freedom project aims to help furnish...
No easy answers to Middle East conflict, poverty and Islamic extremism, but Sarah Chayes argues in Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security pervasive corruption is at the root of all three. A powerful NYT...
