Sri Lanka has long been a matter of contention in Indian domestic and foreign policy, a topic relevant to India’s upcoming general...

Five weeks ago, Francis Torres wrote an article for BPR explaining the dangers that journalists face internationally. Among many...

In the space of less than a generation, China has transformed itself from a nation almost completely cut off from the international...

Global environmental policy is rife with unfulfilled promises, as evidenced by the notorious Kyoto Protocols. China, to much surprise,...

President Barack Obama’s second term has been tainted by numerous instances of questionable uses of executive power, including the IRS...

As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, China is poised to act as a stabilizing force in the region, reaping the benefits of...

In 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin and now former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak were delighted when their gas monopolies...

In the Middle East, negotiations may (or very well may not) spell a coming peace. But while the eyes of the world have tentatively fallen...

Slavery ended with the American Civil War, back when the African slaves of the American south picked cotton and tobacco, right? Now all...

It is a question that has long been asked in America, particularly after the handling of firms after the 2008 crisis, and most pressingly...

The lavish spending habits of China’s new rich are more often than not a subject of lighthearted ridicule. Gold-plated Lamborghinis and...

Over the past few weeks I’ve written of change, in the United States and abroad. I’ve written of tarnished appearances, and put faith in...

On September 22, a political dynasty fell. Following a highly publicized corruption trial, former Chinese politburo member Bo Xilai had...

Li Keqiang, Premier of the People’s Republic of China. “China’s economic growth is unsteady, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and...

Last week, I wrote about the coming debt ceiling crisis and some of the effects that might play out on the global stage should such a...

China is no stranger to image problems. Maligned by the West since the rise of Mao Zedong, it has often found itself at the receiving end...

The Internet, a virtual space existing somewhere beyond the physical world, has become an engine for actual, tangible change. From Cairo...

At the center of the many conflicts in Africa is another war. This battle deals not with state borders, but with the items transported...

In March of 2011, one fruit vendor’s act of bravery unleashed a wave of revolution across the Arab world. Can yet another fruit vendor...

It was among the ravages of world war that the brain child of John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White came into being. Seventy years...