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  • 24 Sep 2008
    Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch

    AIG or WMD?

    If you consider where we were only seven years ago, the notion that the world and President Bush’s record would be the victim not to terrorism but to bad mortgages would have seemed incredible. And yet, the political terrain today is not made by the war on terror as much as it is by a […]

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  • 22 Jul 2008
    Susan Aaronson

    Obama, the Optimist on Trade

    Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between […]

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  • 18 Jul 2008
    Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch

    Obama and the Third Bush Term — A Competent One

    In recent days Barack Obama has sought to establish bluer water between himself and John McCain over Iraq. Did he succeed? Yes, he has succeeded to a degree. He has made it clear that Afghanistan will be the first front in his revised war on terror. By wrapping up Iraq quickly – most US brigades, […]

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  • 19 Mar 2008

    Human Rights, Trade, and the 2008 Presidential Elections

    President Bush is not the only president, or even the first one, to favor trade expansion over human rights protection. Susan Aaronson, expert in the intersection of trade and human rights, seeks to flesh out Bush’s views on how trade affects human rights, with a look at what this means for the current candidates. See […]

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  • 19 Mar 2008

    After Bush: Iraq, Foreign Policy, and the Candidates

    The New York Times’ recent article on McCain’s visit to Iraq highlights a sticking-point for the presidential candidates’ campaigns – the war factor. But will anything really change? Our own Sadhika Salariya has been working with a couple of authors who have their own ideas about what the next president will bring. “As commander-in-chief, I […]

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