Trump's Foreign Policy: An Inadvisable Gambit
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign challenges an idea that has been uncontested by both major parties since the conclusion of the Second World War. By attacking US commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its non-NATO allies Trump has broken with a traditional bipartisan commitment to conventional liberal internationalism and the norms associated with it. Trump’s divergence from this pattern is driven by two factors, with the first informing his conception of the second.
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America's First Tax Plan: Trump's Proposal
On August 8 2016, the republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to members of the Economic Club of Detroit, Michigan, about his “campaign of the future.” His speech harkened back to the golden age of manufacturing which positioned America’s global dominance for much of the 20th century. The audience, now representatives of a city with an unemployment rate (12.5%) more than double the national average (4.9%) and 35.5% of its people living in poverty, was unenthused.
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‘Cleaning’ Up the Energy Industry: a Look into the Future of Kazakhstan’s Uranium Production
Like many energy exporting countries, Kazakhstan’s economy is being hit hard byplummeting oil prices. The oil supply glut in the global market is forecast to contract the ex-Soviet Republic’s economy by 2.2% this year, as the oil and gas industry accounts for a quarter of the country’s GDP and 60% of its balance of payments. But unlike many oil-producing countries, fossil fuels are not Kazakhstan’s only energy resource.
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Can Slow and Steady Win the Race? A look into “Super Tuesday” and what its results mean for the Democratic Primary
These are the newspaper headlines that barraged readers in the wake of Super Tuesday, all proclaiming the “massive” triumphs of Drumpf and Clinton the night before, and the inevitability of the two facing off this November. In fact, no matter how hard one sifts through the multitude of Super Tuesday reports, there appears to be no major media outlet that has even considered the possibility that this win might not be so significant for Clinton.
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When the Well Runs Dry: How cheap oil threatens Saudi Arabia’s political stability
Fearing the repercussions of plummeting oil prices at home and the war in neighboring Yemen, Saudi Arabia is taking precarious measures to maintain the House of Saud’s political stability.
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