And I don't know where else to put this, so I figured out it might as well go with another (previously) homeless comment. I'm a postgrad in a political science and international relations department, and was a bit surprised by the way the topics were divided here.

So few issues are rooted in a single geographical region these days...for a lot of the most interesting/controversial discussion topics, for example Iraq, you'd have a hard time picking whether it was a matter for "US politics" or the section on the middle east. And of course the same could be said for environmental or human rights issues....