Marine natural resource policy was a Stoa debate topic two years ago. Ocean shipping and regional and global fishing issues and disputes turn out to be significant for the coming year’s Stoa resolution: Resolved:...
Stoa debaters who researched the marine natural resources topic will find some familiar stories in fishing disputes between China, Japan, and South Korea. This February 15, 2015 Bloomberg News article, “How Two Small Rocks...
U.S./Middle East policy has been distracted and distorted by lobbyists and special interests. Critics of U.S. policy have focused on a variety of special interests including oil companies and military contractors. Was U.S./Middle East...
Mistake happen and foreign policy goals sometimes collide. Two U.S. policies currently colliding are support and protection of the Kurds in northern Iraq, and support for a unified Iraq. In his WSJ opinion article...
Turmoil in Syria, Iraq, and Gaza continue to sent tens of thousands fleeing violence. With the state quo, though, U.N., U.S., U.K, and other international agencies and governments fund broken and bureaucratic refugee policies. Global...
The previous post started with a discussion of potential benefits from a “soft partition” policy for Iraq. Iraq is half-way there (or one-third?) with the soft partition of Kurdish territories. An semiautonomous Sunni territory...
First page of the Economics of U.S. Middle East Policy study guide. The page one article is a report on economic freedom in Bahrain which cites: According to the annual Economic Freedom of the Arab...
NCFCA debaters have spent the year advocating federal election law reforms and arguing against opponents’ reforms. With at least two of next year’s proposed topics we have an important, if not obvious, connection with...
Homeschool students are debating a resolution calling for reducing dependence on foreign oil. I have spoke to at over a dozen Economic Thinking debate workshops designed to provid an introduction to economic concepts, and...
Bjorn Lomborg discusses “the energy transition” as keynote speaker for All Energy Day 2022. Lomborg warns renewable energy advocates to be careful not to exaggerate harms from climate change and global warming. Transitioning from...
