As Brazil, the Latin American powerhouse, is becoming more of an important actor on the world stage, questions arise as to what this means for the Southern hemisphere and the United States, for whom Brazil has been a strategic sphere of influence since the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. Brazil just took over the United Kingdom as [...]
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Ever since Tunisian fruit vendor Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation unleashed the seismic shifts of the Arab Spring more than one year ago, the ongoing carnage in Syria has been the most unsettling political revolution. To deny that what is going on in Syria is an armed civil war with major sectarian dimensions is deluded. Although the [...]
Last Wednesday night, in Egypt’s Port Said, one of the most gruesome and deadliest instances of football hooliganism left 74 dead and hundreds wounded, leaving the world in a state of shock. Whether these soccer riots were an isolated act of soccer violence (not uncommon in Egyptian football history) or a metaphor for the political [...]
