Ethnic Tensions in the Philippines and Elsewhere
For years the Philippines has battled against radical Islamic insurgencies in Mindanao, and the recent bombings have further exacerbated the ethnic tensions behind this identity-based conflict. At the same time, China is experiencing similar problems with their ethnic minorities. For today’s post, we will draw on the expertise of Priscilla Tacujan, who holds a PhD [...]
Law and Economics Program in El Salvador, May 2010
Professor Juan Javier del Granado, Academic Dean at Alben Barkley Law School and Director of the Latin American and Carribean Law and Economics Center at George Mason Law School, has just announced that next year’s Law and Economics meeting will be held at the Escuela Superior de Economia y Negocios (ESEN) in El Salvador. Law [...]
Secure Freedom Radio
By the name of the title, you would think that the SFS program is going to host our own radio program. I only wish! Actually, this is the name of the new radio program by the Center for Security Policy, which will broadcast every weekday evening from 9-10pm on WTNT in Washington DC. Secure Freedom [...]
Lopsidedness in University Curriculums
“A university curriculum that omits the study of ideas that promote moral and intellectual excellence, defends individual liberty against democratic and egalitarian threats, explains the claims of religion in educating citizens for liberty, and jealously guards free-market capitalism against established ways, in order to make room for progressive ideas is a curriculum that deprives students [...]
Security Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere
A week ago, I traveled to Kingston Ontario, Canada for a conference on Latin America titled “At Home in the Americas: Canada, the US and Hemispheric Security.” This was the fourth annual conference co-sponsored by the Queen’s Centre for International Relations, Royal Canadian Military, and the US Army War College. Skipping the conference presentations, which [...]
Economic Liberalism and the “Grand Liberal Project”
In this five-segment series, Charles Kesler, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and editor of the Claremont Review of Books, explains the different waves of liberalism that have emerged in American politics since a century ago. Posted on the National Review Online, Chapter 2 of the interview deals with the issue of economic liberalism [...]
The Entrepreneurial Generation- A Video on Regaining the Atlas Spirit.
As a part of Fundacion Global’s Atlas Shrugged program they’ve created an excellent video lauding the entrepreneurial spirit of Argentines in years past as well as the importance of the individual; ideals espoused in the book Atlas Shrugged. Below you can see the video in English, but it was originally produced in Spanish. Related Links: [...]
Democratized North Korean Intelligence
This may come as old news for those who regularly read the Wall Street Journal, but I was reminded of the story after reading again today about the plight of the two American journalists being held in North Korea for allegedly illegally crossing into the country from China. On May 22nd, the WSJ featured a [...]
Finding the Nexus of Economics and Security
The key component of the Think Tanks for a Secure Free Society mission is to promote the work of think tanks that “Engage in issues where economics intersects with security, intelligence, and defense.” While this network is continually developing, we have been able to identify a handful of experts that are well versed in both [...]
A Proposed Institute in Honor of Jack Kemp
To honor the memory of Jack Kemp and his policy contributions to entrepreneurial capitalism, Pepperdine University has launched initial efforts toward establishing the Jack F. Kemp Institute for Political Economy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy in Malibu, California. It is both proper and fitting for, as Steve Forbes, chairman and CEO of Forbes, [...]
Roman Ortiz speaking at Security Conference in Canada!
Since the turn of the century, many in the foreign policy world have turned their attention to regions with immediate security challenges (e.g. Middle East, Horn of Africa, etc.). In the meantime, the security environment in Latin America has steadily deteriorated as insurgency groups have resurfaced in Peru, drug cartels have dominated most of Central [...]
Walter Williams on the Role of Government in a Free Society
The Center for Vision & Values recently held its fifth annual conference, “Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education: A Vision for the Soul of the American University,” (April 16-17, 2009 at Grove City College), addressing the challenges that threaten faith and freedom in higher education. Dr. Walter Williams, economics professor at George Mason University, delivered the [...]
Paying Attention to North Korea
In light of yesterday’s weapon’s test by North Korea, we thought it might be good to draw your attention to some work we’ve discussed previously, by In-Young Kim, a professor at Hallym University in South Korea. Dr. Kim recently spoke on a panel at the Heritage Foundation’s Resource Bank meeting, in addition he published an [...]
Unrest in Guatemala Poses Threats to Liberty
Some of you may have seen a YouTube video where a recently murdered lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, explicitly accuses the Guatemalan President of murder, as he states: “If you are watching this, it is because I was murdered by President Alvaro Colom.” Rosenberg made this accusation because one of his clients, Khalil Musa, refused to take [...]
New Edition of Econ Journal Watch Available Now
The new issue of Economic Journal Watch is now available online . EJW is an electronic journal that publishes reviews and comments on articles appearing in economics journals. Housed at the Economics Department at George Mason University, it provides a forum for economic research and the economic profession. It has published articles on public policy, [...]
Summer Institute Forum at the University of Richmond
The Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought offers a forum for distinguished scholars and students to present works-in-progress or more polished papers to a lively audience. This year, the Summer Institute will be hosted by the Jepson School for Leadership Studies, June 19-22nd. On June 19th, the seminar will begin with a day [...]
New Policy Paper from CDFAI – “Getting it Done in Foreign Policy”
If you have noticed the trend of this blog, we have been communicating, through our think tank partners, the message of increased bilateral relationships even amidst this global economic crisis. It is because of the crisis, that the future of multilateral institutions is uncertain, thus, nations must return to diplomacy 101. This is the crux [...]
Challenges of an Increasingly Dangerous World
As the general concern around the world has shifted towards the global economic crisis (rightly so), we thought to remind everyone that this crisis could manifest itself into other areas, namely the security arena. As it stands, there are still many parts of the world where dictatorial leaders would use this economic downturn as an [...]
Is Today’s Higher Ed Destined for the Dustbin of History
My brother Dan does education policy at the Heritage Foundation (mostly on K-12) and we have chatted from time to time about whether the status quo at American universities will prevail over time — with its high costs and left-biased product line. Scholars like Charles Murray have asserted that the average college student today does [...]
North Korea’s Game
North Korea’s defiant launch of a long-range ballistic missile, has given President Obama his first major security crisis. As many of us watched the news to see how Obama would react to this diplomatic challenge, across the ocean some of our allies provided their own analysis of the situation. One particular contact – Dr. In-Young Kim [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFI Keynote Speech by Jeff Sandefer
On April 5th Atlas held a half day conference, “Improving Students’ Appreciation of Free-Market Thinking Through the Academy”, just prior to the APEE meeting in Guatemala. The keynote speaker for this meeting was Jeff Sandefer, Professor and CO-Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. His speech was entitled, An Alternative Model for Educating Business Leaders. In [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFI Keynote Speech by James Otteson
On March 27th Atlas’s Teach Freedom Initiative hosted a half-day conference on the topic Free Enterprise and the Commercial Republic: Teaching Students about America’s Economic Foundations. This meeting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana just prior the Philadelphia Society’s Annual Meeting. Listen in to hear James Otteson, Visiting Professor of Government from Georgetown University, as [...]
FSSO Call for Papers 2009
The Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation seeks Academic Papers exploring the theme “Organization and Emergence: Tensions and Symbiosis” at its Third Conference on Emergent Order and Society on December 3-6, 2009. The deadline for submitting papers is May 20th. For further information click here.
