Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has enhanced its campaign against suspected violators of sanctions on Iran and Syria. President Barack Obama has empowered his administration to identify and track alleged violators of U.S. and international sanctions on Damascus and Teheran. On May 1, Obama signed an order that authorized the Treasury Department […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System By the start of 2012, the U.S. had seen a precipitous decline in its real strategic dominance of the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf, and in its ability to reach and influence Central Asia. It had taken less than two decades for the […]
Sol W. Sanders The new year’s worldwide economic downturn has an interlocking effect: every national economy is searching to accommodate itself politically as well as economically to what looks to be an extended period of low growth. After longer or shorter periods of historically unrivaled prosperity, they are feeling for a “bottom” — a level […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sumantra Maitra, FreePressers.com Reading Daniel Drezner is a delight. The good professor brings a sense of humor in his articles which is quite a rarity considering the drab subjects we have to study in the field of International Relations. (I haven’t got an opportunity to study under him or meet him […]