HASTY DECISIONS AND SUPERFICIAL FIXES: INDIA'S DECISION TO LAUNCH THE WORLD'S CHEAPEST TABLET COMPUTER
India's misguided effort to introduce tablet computing into its education system. By Vidya Mahavadi, Contributing Writer.
HASTY DECISIONS AND SUPERFICIAL FIXES: INDIA'S DECISION TO LAUNCH THE WORLD'S CHEAPEST TABLET COMPUTER
India's misguided effort to introduce tablet computing into its education system. By Vidya Mahavadi, Contributing Writer.
FIGHTER MARKET 2020+: UNCERTAINTY AND NOT MUCH ELSE
Russia and China are both pursuing advanced fighter aircraft development programs officially planned to enter service before 2020. How realistic are these goals? By Taylor Marvin, Staff Writer.
AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE END OF SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID
How the 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act helped end apartheid in South Africa. By Christopher J. McCoy, Contributing Writer.
AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE END OF SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID
How the 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act helped end apartheid in South Africa. By Christopher J. McCoy, Contributing Writer.
POVERTY, POTS AND GOLDEN PEANUTS
Looting and the destruction of historical sites on the north coast of Peru. By Daniel Radthorne, Contributing Writer.
MYSTIFICATION UNCOVERED: PREVENTING LANGUAGE DEATH OF THE PEOPLE OF CHAMPA
Protecting the language of Southeast Asia's Cham people. By Jennifer Tran-Math, Contributing Writer.
STATELESS INDIVIDUALS IN ESTONIA AND LATVIA AND THE EFFECTS OF EU CONDITIONALITY
Why has the EU's attempt bring Estonian and Latvian minority policy in line with the Copenhagen Criteria has failed? By William Blanning, Contributing Writer.
PERSECUTION OF ALBINISM IN TANZANIA
Vumilia Makoye was like many other Tanzanians living with albinism. Due to her severe near-sightedness as well as constant ridicule borne from her peers' ignorance, school was a constant challenge. She dropped out by age 17. One evening, Vumilia was eating dinner at home with her family in Tanzania when men approached her hut with long knives.
BHOPAL: THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
This paper aims to answer the fundamental question regarding the litigation that took place after the Bhopal gas leak: was justice served? After first reviewing the events of the evening of the gas leak, citing relevant facts and figures, I go on to establish a jurisprudential basis on which we can analyze the court rulings. After doing this, we can compare historical payouts in judicially similar cases with the Bhopal case and establish the clear injustice that was served to the Bhopal victims. Then we look back to what could have been done, or what may still be done.
THE FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY AND CHINESE GRAND STRATEGY
China expert Dr. Tai Ming Cheung at the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies talks future of Chinese grand strategy. By Taylor Marvin, Staff Writer.
THE FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY AND CHINESE GRAND STRATEGY
China expert Dr. Tai Ming Cheung at the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies talks future of Chinese grand strategy. By Taylor Marvin, Staff Writer.
SREBRENICA 15 YEARS LATER
The July 1995 massacre and murder of 8000 Bosnian men and boys in the eastern Bosnian city of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina continues to be a stain on humanity. More than seventy major mass graves have been located in Bosnia-Herzegovina containing civilians killed during the worst war crimes in Europe since the days of World War Two.
WARTIME DRUGS
During war, people from an array of disciplines, including chemists, clinicians, engineers, and pharmacologists, are enlisted to speed production of so-called wartime drugs. A common belief is that war stimulates the advancement of medicine, and justly so, seeing how governments pour billions of dollars into medical research as war increases the amount of individuals in need of healing.
CUTTING US DEFENSE SPENDING IS NOT A THREAT TO AMERICAN SECURITY
Despite efforts by conservative lawmakers to depict US defense cuts as a dire threat to American security, carefully considered reductions in the US governments bloated military budget are not dangerous, and America's looming fiscal challenges makes them necessary.