Politics: Nuclear Nonproliferation
The dangers that can arise from mismanaged proliferation are profound and numerous. There is the danger that the proliferation process itself could give one of the existing nuclear powers a strong incentive to stop a non-nuclear neighbor from joining the nuclear club. For example, Israel (an undeclared Nuclear Power) used force to stop Iraq from acquiring a nuclear capability. There is also the danger that an unstable nuclear competition could emerge among some of the new nuclear states like ...
Politics: Economic Sanctions in Cuba
Economic sanctions can be and are a valuable tool for enforcing international norms and protecting our national interests. The U.S. Policy of applying economic pressure in Cuba originated soon after Fidel Castro came into power in 1959. The United States first imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba on February 3, 1962, after the Kennedy Administration became convinced that Castro was moving rapidly toward the establishment of a totalitarian regime in alliance with the Soviet Union. Castro had no ...
Politics: War in Iraq
Some critics of this war used to claim that such huge military campaign required a lot of money and resources. They underlined that it was strictly not good time for war as the USA has been suffering serious economic and national security problems, like financial deficits or increasing unemployment. But occupation of Iraq and ousting of Hussein’s regime saved the economy of America and world economy from danger of damping of oil prices, which already took place in 1970s and 1990s. Economic losse ...
Politics: Bush's Foreign Policy
Are the cold war and the war against terrorism really analogous in the way Bush suggests? Wasn’t the lesson of the cold war that containment, rather than military engagement, worked? As U.S. casualties mount in Iraq and the prospect of a relatively short, smooth transition to democracy dims, the president is confronted with the manifold contradictions of his policies. Having convinced the American people war was justified because Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed an imminent thre ...
