War on Terror in Regional and Trans-Regional Context

The Regional Context of Human Rights in the Middle East

Human rights situation in the Middle East (ME) is a central concern in contemporary political as well as academic discourses. There is a considerable amount of literature on the subject, both academic and journalistic, in the Western world. A large part of that literature blames the ME in different ways for its ‘terrible’ conception and treatment of human rights norms. They typically, do not he...

Deterrence in the Cold War and the “War on Terror”

The War on Cancer: Lessons from the War on Terror

The war metaphor has become commonplace in discussions about our endeavor to find a cure for cancer. But beyond the power of imagery, this analogy offers the opportunity to highlight lessons that warriors of cancer can learn from the warriors of terror: that more efficient killing of the undesired cells may not always be better. Evidence suggesting that drug-stressed and dying cancer cells can ...

ECO and Regional Trade

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this re...

Southeast Asia : Winning the War on Terror ?

ECONOMIC LEADERS FROM AROUND the world gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 14 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in November of 2006. With this year’s theme of “Towards a Dynamic Community for Sustainable Development and Prosperity,” the APEC community strived to make clear its support for the Doha Development Agenda. In addition, the forum emphasized the need to protect human secu...