Peace and Conflict Studies

Iran Anxiety No Match for Central Banker Cash Sedating Investors

7 Feb 2012

Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Syria’s bloody crackdown and Greece’s potential default are leaving markets unfazed as central bankers take unprecedented steps to prevent the global economy from crumbling.

Syrian Instability: How Would Rest of World Respond?

7 Feb 2012

Watch Video | Listen to the Audio RAY SUAREZ: I'm joined now by Joshua Landis, co-director of the Center for Peace Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He was a senior Fulbright Scholar in Syria in 2005 and runs a website called SyriaComment.com. And Steven Heydemann, a political scientist and senior adviser for Middle East initiatives at the United States Institute of Peace. Joshua Landis ...

Studies: Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From Venus

7 Feb 2012

The contest for power between Democrats and Republicans pits two antithetical value systems against each other; two conflicting concepts of freedom, liberty, fairness, right, and wrong; two mutually exclusive notions of the state, the individual, and the collective good.