by Nathan Daniels | Mar 13, 2014 | Monitor
Egypt: Spotlight on Politics, But Economic Challenges Growing Nikhil Lohade / Wall Street Journal While politics remains at the front and center for now, Egypt’s economy continues to flounder – and needs some urgent attention too. How the Ukraine Crisis May Complicate...
by Brendan Zehner | Sep 30, 2013 | Monitor
Possible Flights between US and Iran RFE/RL Following his conciliatory speech at the UN, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani raised the possibility of resuming direct flights between Iran and the US. Direct flights between the two countries have not occurred in more...
by Christian Mull | Aug 7, 2013 | Monitor
How Do You Rebrand a Country? David Zax/Smithsonian Magazine It was May 2011 and Mizuki Takahashi, an art curator in the Japanese city of Mito, couldn’t believe the irony. A mere two months before, her country had been battered by the “triple disaster” of an...
by Megan Slack | May 7, 2013 | Monitor
Watch this video on YouTube Today, President Obama welcomed President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea to the White House to mark 60 years of bilateral partnership between our two nations. Established following the Korean War, the US-ROK Alliance is a linchpin...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 15, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Does North Korea’s leadership belong in the madhouse or Alcatraz as so many of our right wing politicians, militarists and some journalists seem to suggest? Or are they behaving as sanely – at least from their perspective – as their...