The Issue of the Week

2017
1.(3rd/Oct.) War of Words in Spain. (CNN)
2009
1.(4th/June) 'Neda' becomes rallying cry for Iranian protests. (CNN)
2007
1.(2nd/Feb.) Putin: U.S. pushing others into nuclear ambitions. (CNN)
2006
1.(3rd/Nov.) Iraq: 3,700 Iraq civilians were killed in Oct. 2006. (CNN)
1.(1st/Oct.) North Korea: Nuclear Test (CNN)
2005
4.(3rd/Sep.) Political Science (NT)
4.(3rd/July) Unwinnable Conflict.
3.(2nd/May) Interview with Christopher R. Hill.
2.(2nd/April) Protestation against Japan.
1.(2nd/Feb.) North Korea claims nuclear weapons.
2004
1.(3rd/Jan.) Nuclear Black Market.
2.(1st/Feb.) Bush defends Iraq war (CNN).
3.(3rd/April) Plan of Attack (Woodward).
4.(3rd/June) Kim, Dae-Jung (FT).
5.(4th/June) South Korean hostage beheaded.
6.(4th/July) FDI and Mexican Banking (Carnegie).
7.(3rd/Aug.) Oil blazes past $47 to new record (CNN).
8.(4th/Aug.) Doing Business With The Enemy (CBS).
9.(1st/Sep.) The school hostage crisis in Russia.
10.(1st/Oct.) No WMD Stockpiles in Iraq.
11.(2nd/Nov.) Yasser Arafat's death.
2003
1.(1st/Jan.) World: Producing human clones?
2.(3rd/Jan.) World: Antiwar Protests Sweep the World.
3.(4th/Jan.) War and Peace: Thinking a fast win in Iraq will fix what's wrong with the global economy?
4.(1st/Feb.) "Who will lead the war one want?" (Jeffrey Sachs)
5.(2nd/Feb.) World: Peace protests spread around globe.
6-1.(1st/Mar.) Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war (Guardian, U.K.)
6-2. Bush Pushes the Big Lie to the Brink (LA Times)
7.(3rd/April) Bush will attack North Korea! (Chalmers Johnson on the Korean crisis)
8.(3rd/May) France gaining in public favor by Germans
9.(4th/May) Why Rumsfeld Should Lay Off the French (International Herald Tribune)
10.(1st/June) The Paradoxes of American Nationalism (Foreign Policy)
11.(2nd/June) Israeli attacks and Hamas revenges
12.(2nd/July) China-South Korea Bilateralism (Brookings Institution)
13.(3rd/July) Hussein Brothers' Deaths
14.(2nd/Aug.) Crisis in Liberia
15.(3rd/Aug.) Iraq a 'magnet' for al Qaeda
16.(4th/Aug.) The U.S. and South Asia (Brookings).
17.(1st/Oct.) Israeli attack on Syria
18.(3rd/Nov.) Mass anti-Bush protest in London
19.(4th/Nov.) The birth of a new Georgia.
2002
1.(1st/Oct.) Asia: N.K. creates "Special Economic Zone."
2.(2nd/Oct.) Africa: Cracks In the Ivory.
3.(3rd/Oct.) Asia: Asian leaders weigh responses to attack.
4.(4th/Dec.) Asia: N.K. overrides surveillance on nuclear plant.