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The Future of American Power How America Can Survive the Rise of the Rest Fareed Zakaria From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008 Article Tools Email to a Colleague Print Article Summary: Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain's decline was driven by bad economics. ..

The Age of Nonpolarity What Will Follow U.S. Dominance Richard N. Haass From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008 Summary: The United States' unipolar moment is over. International relations in the twenty-first century will be defined by nonpolarity. Power will be diffuse rather than concentrated, and the influence of nation-states will decline as that of nonstate actors increases. B..

한·미 상호방위조약 1953.10. 1 워싱턴에서 서명 1954.11.18 발효 본 조약의 당사국은 모든 국민과 모든 정부와 평화적으로 생활하고자 하는 희망을 재인식하며 또한 태평양지역에 있어서의 평화기구를 공고히 할 것을 희망하고 당사국 중 어느 일방이 태평양지역에 있어서 고립하여 있다는 ..

Making of a Massacre Quiet and disturbed, Cho Seung-Hui seethed, then exploded. His odyssey. By Evan Thomas Newsweek April 30, 2007 issue - It takes a while to adjust to getting shot at, certainly if you are a 20-year-old sophomore biology major sitting in German class. At first, Derek O'Dell thought the slight young man dressed in dark clothes and holding a gun was playing so..

Blood Test By Soo Youn Foreign Policy Posted April 2007 News that the Virginia Tech shooter was a fellow countryman set off a firestorm of apologies in South Korea. But amid shock that one of their own could commit such a heinous act is surprise that his crime?not his race?is the main issue in the multicultural United States. And in that, there’s a lesson to be learned for a..

After the Virginia Tech massacre America's tragedy Apr 19th 2007 From The Economist print edition Its politicians are still running away from a debate about guns The Economist IN THE aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech university on April 16th, as the nation mourned a fresh springtime crop of young lives cut short by a psychopath's bullets, President George Bush and thos..

Think Tank Town Is America Serious About Mental Health? By David Gray, Mary Bissell, New America Foundation Washingtonpost.com | April 19, 2007 The pressures of growing up, fitting in and getting ahead leave many students in need of mental health support that many are not getting. The Virginia Tech massacre raises questions that may never be answered. Even in the insolubility o..

'He Was Just Off' Students and faculty say Cho Seung-Hui seldom spoke, and gave feedback to his fellow English students only in writing. His own work so worried professors that authorities were notified. Portrait of a killer. Virginia State Police-AP A police handout of Cho Seung-Hui, a student from South Korea identified by Virginia Tech officials as the shooter in the campus..

Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2007 By JOHN CLOUD Suspected gunman Cho Seung-Hui. Fairfax County, Va. Public Schools / AP The man who murdered at least 30 people at Virginia Tech and wounded at least 14 others in the nation's worst shooting massacre was a 23-year-old South Korean named Cho Seung-Hui. Cho, an English major, had likely planned his attack f..

God's Country? Walter Russell Mead From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006 Summary: Religion has always been a major force in U.S. politics, but the recent surge in the number and the power of evangelicals is recasting the country's political scene -- with dramatic implications for foreign policy. This should not be cause for panic: evangelicals are passionately devoted t..