The American government’s relationship with individual allies overseas – whether in war or peace – is a long and controversial one. 40 years ago, the pressing refugee crisis of our time involved those seeking to resettle after the fall of Saigo...
Carter Johnson
Carter is a senior concentrating in Political Science with a focus on International and Comparative Politics. He happens to be the only Yankees fan in all of Rhode Island, and his favorite movie alternates between Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski. He is the World Section Manager for BPR's Content Board.
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The American government’s relationship with individual allies overseas – whether in war or peace – is a long and controversial one. 40 years ago, the pressing refugee crisis of our time involved those seeking to resettle after the fall of Saigo...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
It was among the ravages of world war that the brain child of John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White came into being. Seventy years ago at Bretton-Woods, 45 nations created the International Monetary Fund in the hopes of repairing and re-integrat...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
It was among the ravages of world war that the brain child of John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White came into being. Seventy years ago at Bretton-Woods, 45 nations created the International Monetary Fund in the hopes of repairing and re-integrat...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Often discussed during the past month’s Syrian chemical weapons debate has been the present and altogether fractured state of U.S.-Russian relations. In the cold, marbled walls of embassies, state departments, and, of course, the U.N., this con...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Often discussed during the past month’s Syrian chemical weapons debate has been the present and altogether fractured state of U.S.-Russian relations. In the cold, marbled walls of embassies, state departments, and, of course, the U.N., this con...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Japan’s nationalism, much like their baseball, exists as a constant reminder of the nation’s rapid passage from a feudal society to a Westernized, imperial power. The process that began in the middle of the 19th century — the end of...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Japan’s nationalism, much like their baseball, exists as a constant reminder of the nation’s rapid passage from a feudal society to a Westernized, imperial power. The process that began in the middle of the 19th century — the end of...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Many months ago I wrote of Shinzo Abe’s ambitious new economic plan for Japan and the subsequent expansion of the monetary base with which it was accompanied. I cited the fact that, beginning in early 2014, the Bank of Japan would begin buying gove...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Many months ago I wrote of Shinzo Abe’s ambitious new economic plan for Japan and the subsequent expansion of the monetary base with which it was accompanied. I cited the fact that, beginning in early 2014, the Bank of Japan would begin buying gove...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
In 2000 Chalmers Johnson, a professor of history at UC San Diego, famously co-opted the CIA term “blowback” in order to explain the negative consequences of America’s long tradition of foreign interventionism. “World politics in the twenty-f...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
In 2000 Chalmers Johnson, a professor of history at UC San Diego, famously co-opted the CIA term “blowback” in order to explain the negative consequences of America’s long tradition of foreign interventionism. “World politics in the twenty-f...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
It began in a small park in Istanbul and very well might end in Brussels. Turkey’s protestors are now nearly silent after a month of abuse at the hands of riot police, their revolutionary spirit seemingly moved across the Atlantic to Brazil. Their ...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
It began in a small park in Istanbul and very well might end in Brussels. Turkey’s protestors are now nearly silent after a month of abuse at the hands of riot police, their revolutionary spirit seemingly moved across the Atlantic to Brazil. Their ...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Fifty-six days ago, Hugo Chavez died in a Caracas hospital. There were tributes. like this one from former Brazilian president Lula da Silva. There was a passive-aggressive comment from the White House. There was unwarranted vitriol from some of...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Fifty-six days ago, Hugo Chavez died in a Caracas hospital. There were tributes. like this one from former Brazilian president Lula da Silva. There was a passive-aggressive comment from the White House. There was unwarranted vitriol from some of...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
The story of China’s growth has been the story of its workers. Long discussed in regards to China’s meteoric rise, the millions of blue-collar, migrant workers upon which the bulk of the nation’s productivity has been based have come from the v...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
The story of China’s growth has been the story of its workers. Long discussed in regards to China’s meteoric rise, the millions of blue-collar, migrant workers upon which the bulk of the nation’s productivity has been based have come from the v...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
No longer can I ignore the imitable elephant in the room. Pyongyang’s various declarations of imminent destruction have become more and more frequent, and so it is with a heavy hand that I write this week of the immense and controversial issue that...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
No longer can I ignore the imitable elephant in the room. Pyongyang’s various declarations of imminent destruction have become more and more frequent, and so it is with a heavy hand that I write this week of the immense and controversial issue that...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Last week, I wrote of the various problems that plague several of the BRIC nations, which include troubling and skewed demographics in India and Russia and a reliance on export commodities in the latter nation and in Brazil (though my friend and fell...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
Last week, I wrote of the various problems that plague several of the BRIC nations, which include troubling and skewed demographics in India and Russia and a reliance on export commodities in the latter nation and in Brazil (though my friend and fell...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations. Their economies emerge and retract, develop and decline, and while, as investor Jimmy Rogers writes, “the 19th century bel...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson
“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations. Their economies emerge and retract, develop and decline, and while, as investor Jimmy Rogers writes, “the 19th century bel...
Carter Johnson
Carter Johnson