The American Enterprise Institute’s Jessica Trisko Darden, in Youth radicalization is rising, and the international community is unprepared (AEIdeas, June 11, 2018), first reviews the ways children and mothers have been manipulated and used in terrorist...
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...
Among the three proposed NCFCA topics is: Resolved: The USFG should substantially reform its foreign policy regarding international terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks international terrorism has been at the center of U.S. foreign policy....
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy toward one or more countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). For the 2018-2019 school year, NCFCA proposes three resolutions,...
“Security is a most seductive thing,” he tells his daughter. “I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the greatest evil there is.” The Wall Street Journal article “A New Wrinkle in Time” reports: Madeleine...
Students researching U.S./Middle East policy should be aware of the influence of special interest groups. The Founders cautioned about “factions,” explaining that when federal policies helped or hurt particular groups, they would lobby for...
It would be handy to burn a bright line between countering foreign espionage and stifling domestic dissent. That line turns out to be difficult to draw and maintain when governments under stress confuse critics...
Hernando de Soto’s October 10, 2014 Wall Street Journal essay is titled: “The Capitalist Cure for Terrorism: Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The U.S. needs to promote economic empowerment.”...
This debate topic should encourage homeschool students to research American and Middle Eastern history, international affairs, geography, and the economics of trade, development, and energy. For over ten years Economic Thinking workshops have helped...
Military generals are charged with managing national security which has included protecting access to “needed” natural resources. Military goals have been stretched to securing resources “needed” for economic security. And for the U.S., overseas...
