Israel is an undeclared nuclear power that keeps on threatening to attack Iran. Nuclear-armed U.S. ships and submarines are lurking in the Persian Gulf, ready to get into action at short notice. The U.S. has…
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[Continued from III] Nye Never Admit of America’s “Imperial Ambition” America’s top military strategist Nye doesn’t necessarily hide what his nation intends to do with his new strategic military concept as his following statement plainly…
[Continued from Part II] Fourth Subtheme: “Hard Power Can Be Measured, and Soft Power Cannot” “False … soft power, like globalization, is too ‘elastic’ a concept to be useful. Like others, he [Washington Post columnist…
[Continued from Part I] First Subtheme: “Soft Power is Cultural Power” “Partly, Power is the ability to alter the behavior of others to get what you want. … basically three ways to do that: coercion…
[Editor’s note: In October, 2011, Chinese President Hu Jintao made a very historic and one of the most important political speeches at the Sixth Central Committee Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Party Congress. It’s…
The US military will be reshaped between now and 2020 with an emphasis on countering terrorism, maintaining a nuclear deterrent, protecting the U.S. homeland and «deterring and defeating aggression by any potential adversary». That’s what…
Mexican political analyst Alfredo Jalife-Rahme analyzes the recent Pentagon and White House strategic and budgetary options. While an extremist fringe continues to nurture the unaffordable dream of US domination over the entire globe, President Obama…
-Can this union replace the League of Arab States? Moreover, the CCASG has proved itself as the most influential force in the Arab world during the “Arab spring”. The League of Arab States moves to…
The City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia, home of Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and the University of Virginia, passed on Tuesday evening, January 17, 2012, a resolution believed to be a first in the country, opposing…
Iranian Vice President vows to make enemies “repent” for “terrorist actions” The Sunday Times reports (from behind a pay wall) that Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was assassinated last week by the…