Book Discussion of Murder in the Name of Honour by Rana Husseini (Winter 2009/2010, at the Soros Foundation in New York City). Rana Husseini is a senior reporter at the Jordan Times.
Honor killing is an international phenomena happening mainly in impoverished and uneducated areas. In most of the cases, the crime of honor killing...
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A book review by CGA alumnus Francis Asprec.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer: 273 pages.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind documents the life of William Kamkwamba and his idea of bringing wind energy into his native country, Malawi. William became fascinated with the subject of energy from...
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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna, Random House, New York, 2008, $29.00.
In his new book The Second World, Parag Khanna deconstructs the post-Cold War world. Khanna divides the First World into what he calls the three empires, the United States, European Union and China. ...
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The J Curve: a New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall by Ian Bremmer
Most people have probably never heard of this book, but I find it very insightful when looking at the idea of stability. Ian Bremmer (president of the Eurasia Group) explains his theory that stability can only come...
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