World Affairs Essays

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Here’s an interesting column on Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama’s respective stances on Cuba:
The Wrong Experience
By Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, February 11, 2008
www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/021108.html

Here’s a link for a fascinating and funny tale of the “universality” of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare in the Bush
www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Essays/Shakes_in_Bush.htm

Here’s a good essay on the effectiveness (and ineffectiveness) of sanctions:
Sleepwalking To Sanctions, Again
By Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, October 9, 2007
www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/100907.html

[Kahlessa]

Here’s a thought-provoking essay:
THE CITIZEN AND THE TRIBESMAN
(or Why We Will Never See Democracy in the Middle East)
By Steven Pressfield
www.stevenpressfield.com/content/op-ed2.asp

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Here's an op-ed on the tribalism that continues to plague Kenya:

Tribalism Here and There
By ROGER COHEN, NY Times, March 10, 2008
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10webcohen.html