Geographically incomparable – insomuch that one occupies 30,528 square kilometers and the other constitutes the second largest country in the world by total area – yet politically and culturally analogous to the extent that both contain significant French-speaking minorities, the federal parliamentary constitutional monarchies of Belgium and Canada present ideal cases for comparison.
Read MoreProlongation of Violence and the Realities of Darfur
Beginning in February of 2003, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice of Equality Movement (JEM) joined forces in the Darfur region of western Sudan to lead an armed rebellion against the country’s central government. What resulted was years of violent conflict that has been said to have left hundreds of thousands of people dead, and millions more displaced from their homes.
Read MoreMaking the World Safe for Democracy: Wilsonianism Revisited
In declaring war on Germany in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson defined the central goal of his vision for American foreign policy by asserting that “the world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”[i]Wilson ingrained this philosophy, known as Liberal Internationalism, into the psyche of the American public by advocating for the promotion of democracy, economic openness, well-structured multilateral institutions, and American leadership.
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