Category: Americas

By Walter Russell Mead | 17 July 2010 In spite of what some conspiracy-minded critics on the right think, mainstream journalists like Time’s Joel Klein do not often agree with Fidel Castro.  That...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 24 June 2010 Sunday's second round election saw Juan Manuel Santos beat his rival, Antanas Mockus of the Green Party, by 69% to 27.5%. His primary commitments...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 10 June 2010 For much of the past century Latin America has been characterised as Washington’s ‘backyard’. Economically and militarily, the region’s states have never been in a position...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 10 May 2010 The opposition of several Latin American leaders against the attendance of the Honduran leader, Porfirio Lobo, at the upcoming EU-Latin America summit in Madrid...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar** | 02 June 2010 President Obama's National Security Strategy may echo that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, but it is also almost identical to that suggested by...

By Steven J. Rosen | 01 April 2010   U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to confront Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Israeli construction activity in East Jerusalem has been greeted by...

By Dr. Talat Ulussever | 01 April 2010     It is a well-known fact that financial markets, especially banks, are subject to more developed regulatory mechanisms than other sectors of the economy...

Aljazeera | 03 April 2010   Russia and Venezuela have agreed to work more closely on defence and energy issues, saying that such co-operation was vital to ensure a "multi-polar" world.  ...

Interview of Carlos Danilo Amador Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber 30 January 2010   RW/TG: We’re here in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (January 26). Can you give us your name and position in your organization?...

Josh Rogin 29 January 2010 Being secretary of state is a grueling job; you're on the road most weeks, and often you get a lot less say in your country's...

Walter Russell Mead  This is one of the most unpopular headlines an American blogger can write, a guaranteed hit-suppressor.  But it is true nevertheless, as President Obama is now finding...

Richard Wall   Woodrow Wilson was disliked in his own lifetime, by some even loathed. The reasons advanced for this range from academic rivalries and disputes during his tenure at...

Colombia says it will not allow recent tensions with Venezuela to escalate into violence, after it accused Venezuelan troops of blowing up two footbridges that link the countries.   Gabriel...

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu   Orta ve Güney Amerika ile ilgili haberler son dönemde sıklıkla gündeme geliyor. Bu haberlerden ilki Honduras'taki darbe ve sonrasında yaşananlarla ilgili. Konuya ilişkin yorumlarımızı içeren bir yazı yayınlamıştık ancak...

Igor Torbakov   US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev got down to business on July 6, trying to place US-Russian relations back on a solid foundation after...