China Must Do More in South Asia
Damien Tomkins | April 29, 2009
In an open letter to the China Daily while on a trip to China last February, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari described the Sino-Pakistan relationship thusly: Perhaps no relationship between two sovereign states is as unique and durable as that between Pakistan and China.
NATO and Russia Resume Formal Relations
James Joyner | April 29, 2009
NATO and Russia today resumed formal relations, which were broken off in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Georgia.
Protests a Healthy Part of Democracy
David J. Smith | April 29, 2009
When there is interesting news from just down the road, most people focus on that, largely ignoring events in other countries. But in our globalized world, a few keystrokes put us in touch with London, Paris, Rome or New York. Google is marvelous. A few hops around cyber space yield two observations.
Obama AfPak Strategy Déjà Vu All Over Again
Hugh De Santis | April 28, 2009
President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy is looking eerily similar to the approach former President George W. Bush employed in his effort to remake Iraq.
British Artist Tax Revolt
James Joyner | April 28, 2009
There's a nascent revolt of Britain's millionaire artists protesting the UK's high taxes. Over the weekend, Andrew Lloyd Webber spoke out and now he's been joined by Michael Caine.
Swine Flu Outbreaks Prompt EU Travel Warnings
Valerie Nichols | April 27, 2009
The European Union’s top health official today urged Europeans to postpone any nonessential travel to the U.S. and Mexico. With more than 1,600 cases and 103 deaths in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, and with confirmed cases in the U.S. doubling to 40, the World Health Organization worries of pandemic potential while economists worry of additional blows to the already suffering world economy.
Afghanistan is Irrelevant
Bernard Finel | April 27, 2009
It is now a deeply entrenched conventional wisdom that the decision to “abandon” Afghanistan after the Cold War was a tragic mistake. In the oft-told story, our “abandonment” led to civil war, state collapse, the rise of the Taliban, and inevitably terrorist attacks on American soil.
UN: United States Must Prosecute Torture Lawyers
James Joyner | April 25, 2009
The United States is required to prosecute lawyers who authored memos approving harsh interrogation techniques in possible violation of international law, the UN's top anti-torture official proclaimed Friday.
U.S. Prepared to Secure Pakistani Nukes
James Joyner | April 24, 2009
"[I]f Pakistan collapses, the U.S. military is primed to enter the country and secure as many of those weapons as it can, according to U.S. officials," report's TIME's Mark Thompson burying his lede three paragraphs into a story whose headline asks, "Does Pakistan's Taliban Surge Raise a Nuclear Threat?"
Taliban AfPak Strategy: A Jihadi Preemptive War
Walid Phares | April 24, 2009
As the U.S. administration and its allies are devising a new strategy for the next steps in Afghanistan, the jihadists have already begun their next move — but this time it’s inside Pakistan.
