The purpose of this column is to educate the Drake student population on international issues in accordance with Drake University’s ...

Column by Alex Shaner Within the past three years, the civil war in Syria has waged on, costing hundreds of ...

Syria has been in a state of civil war for two years now and embroiled in violence for even longer.

Several recent stories have pointed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been gathering intelligence on several world leaders by ...

The United States intelligence community, specifically the National Security Agency (NSA) is once again under fire for alleged misdeeds regarding ...

The African Union’s main problems are not institutional or a result of its own inefficiency.

The African Union was created in 2001 to replace a previous regional organization — the Organization of African Unity.

The European Union (EU) is one of the foremost political, economic, military and progressive entities in the world.

The European Union (EU) has become one of the most prominent multilateral and regional governmental institutions of all time.

Refoccusing on alliances a must

Tying in with last week’s column where I argued the role of the U.N. in humanitarian intervention, this week’s topic ...

As an international actor, the United Nations is an indispensible resource when addressing health, violence, diplomacy and other action throughout ...