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Second World War’s Legacy of Racism

May 2, 2019
The May 8 anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe has long been celebrated as a triumph of democracy over fascism. The truth is more complicated, argues researcher Ruth Lawlor. As Germany fought for white supremacy, killing millions of Jews, other European nations conscripted African and...

Double Jeopardy: Russia Strives to Reintegrate With the West

November 24, 2015
Russians want to be responsible members of the global community and seek reintegration, yet they also fervently support their government's aggressive foreign policy. “As the leaders in the West contemplate joining Russia in a strategy to defeat the Islamic State, the world needs to understand...

Match-Fixing: Gambling Is Destroying Sport

February 8, 2013
Corruption enriches a few, but poisons organizations. Europol announced nearly 700 fixed football matches after an investigation of thousands of emails in 30 nations. More than 400 have been arrested. “Sports corruption goes back at least 2,800 years and some type of corruption will be with us for...

Desperate Migration in the Middle East

July 9, 2015
Conflict in the Middle East is driving millions of people from their homes: Estimates from the UN Refugee Agency suggest that more than 4 million Syrians are refugees, 50,000 more have sought asylum and at least 7 million more are internally displaced. In Iraq, near 2 million are displaced....

The World at Play: Soccer Takes on Globalization

June 15, 2010
Soccer is the most globalized sport. Owners of any sporting team demand and pay for top talent from anywhere in the world. Before 1995, soccer rules in Europe limited the number of foreign players to a handful per club. A Belgian player successfully protested that the rules violated European laws...

Is Globalization Sustainable?

September 26, 2002
Globalization is not an inevitable, irreversible trend. With the destruction of World War I, increasingly integrated global economic structures began to unravel, collapsing during the Great Depression of the early 20th century. Our more recent era of globalization faces two major threats -...

Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Media: Anatomy of a Failure

April 14, 2004
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made the decision to present terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and Iraq as a linked triple threat. Susan Moeller, professor of media and international affairs at the University of...

China, Russia and the US Juggle Soft and Hard Power

January 8, 2015
Reliance on soft power requires measured patience. Nations want their own way, and the world has seen a marked resurgence in use of hard power, suggests Alistair Burnett, editor of BBC's The World Tonight. The United States intervenes in Iraq and Syria; Russia has annexed Crimea and encourages...
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