By Jason Kumar The 22-month-old conflict in Syria is growing increasingly out of control. It is now threatening to engulf Turkey and turn the local uprising into a regional war. Since the conflict’s onset, refugees from northern Syria have been fleeing toward Turkey to escape the heavy fighting in Aleppo. Though Turkey has been providing […]
The Return of the Old Guard: What Does the New PRI Presidency Mean for Mexico?
By Jose Lobo Carrillo On December 1, 2012, a new presidential term will begin in Mexico. After just 12 years out of power, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which governed the country for most of the 20th century, is returning to the executive office. What does the return of the party that Nobel laureate Mario […]