Afghan Intel War Leaks And After
By Shahid R. Siddiqi | 15 August 2010 Washington uses inaccurate WikiLeaks Intel to whip Pakistan military and ISI and deflect attention from its own failures and excesses. WikiLeaks founder, Julian...
Clement Attlee, David Cameron and the Special Relationship With India
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 13 August 2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron recently declared his wish to build – or rather renew – Britain's 'special relationship' with India. The likelihood...
The US in Costa Rica: the price of Latin American exceptionalism?
By Dr. Guy Burton | 11 August 2010 During the current Venezuela-Colombia spat, one particular comment by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, was particularly striking – although not necessarily for the...
Anglo-American Relations: The Special Relationship Marches On
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 01 August 2010 Even as British leaders, and the media, proclaim the imminent death of the 'special relationship' with the United States, they cannot seem to...
Presidents and Their Generals: A Conversation with Eliot Cohen
By Eliot Cohen | 10 August 2010 AI: Let's start with the Stanley McChrystal episode. What's your take on this? Why did the general act with such inexplicable tactlessness? Did President Obama,...
Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 08 August 2010 This is one of those stories about the Middle East that is totally amazing but not the least bit surprising. What, you ask,...
Children of a Lesser God
Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 30 July 2010 All men may well be born equal but their deaths certainly betray huge inequalities. A month or so ago (24 June, to be precise), Michael...
The Electrical Workers Union versus President Calderon: Class, Struggle, Repression and the Rise of Narco-Power
By James Petras | 28 July 2010 "We are confronting a monster; a force that ridicules, deceives and wants to destroy us". - Miguel Angel Ibara, member of the Mexican Electrical Workers...
A New Low for Colombian-Venezuelan Relations?
By Dr. Guy Burton | 26 July 2010 Relations between Colombia and Venezuela appear to have hit a new low. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Venezuela's government following...
Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo
By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 23 July 2010 Does the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence Resolve Anything? I always tell my students that,...
Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: A Blessing in Disguise?
By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 18 June 2010 Ever since the Pentagon announced that it estimated Afghanistan to sit on around $1 trillion of minerals, including iron ore, copper, cobalt, gold,...
Democracy and Judaism in Israel
By Peter Berger | 22 July 2010 Israel was established as both a democratic and a Jewish state. Both qualities continue to be real enough. But there have been increasing tensions between...
Posting From Pakistan
By Walter Russell Mead | 23 July 2010 During the next two weeks I'll be visiting Pakistan at the invitation of the US Embassy there. I won't be there to toe the...
Why Peace Can Be As Difficult As War?
By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 July 2010 Current public policy debates in Armenia and Azerbaijan over a possible Nagorno-Karabakh war are more acceptable to those who want to return to their homes...
Who are “We”?
By Peter Berger | 17 July 2010 A Chinese sage defined a wise person as one who sees things together which others see as apart. Writing a blog implies the presumption of at least...