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Archive for September, 2008
Rush McCloy: Letter from Afghanistan
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Afghanistan, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
Rush McCloy is Lieutenant in the Navy who has been serving in Afghanistan since January 2008. He is the founder of Channelstone Partners and a graduate of University of Virginia ...Continue reading . . .
Ian Williams: Bacardi’s Muddled Fight for “Cuba Libre”
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Books, Cuba | Comments
The Bacardi family elicits strong feelings across the world. Its propensity for mythmaking, its aggressive commercial competitiveness, its long history of lobbying in Washington, its family obsession with Cuba, and ...Continue reading . . .
David A. Andelman: A Call to Arms…for Peace
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Diplomacy, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
On Sunday, the third annual Global Creative Leadership Summit kicks off this year’s three-day session, bringing together more than 100 of the world’s greatest minds and leaders from a wide ...Continue reading . . .
Shaun Randol: China’s Chechnya (part 2 of 2)
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in China, Terrorism, human rights | Comments
When confronting the situation in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR), are there lessons Beijing can draw from similar events? China’s neighboring power, Russia, for one, has experience with Muslim separatists. Chechnya, ...Continue reading . . .
Shaun Randol: China’s Chechnya (part 1 of 2)
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in China, Migration, Terrorism | Comments
Things are heating up in China’s westernmost province. In response to a number of violent incidents in Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR), Beijing has ratcheted up its security presence. Tit-for-tat clashes ...Continue reading . . .
Jonathan Power: Downhill in Afghanistan
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Afghanistan, Pakistan, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
How far is downhill? Well, that's like asking how long is a piece of string. But whatever the answer, the American/NATO military effort in Afghanistan, triggered by 9/11, seems to ...Continue reading . . .
Sumit Ganguly: Time to Seize the Day
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Economy, India, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
It is something of a marvel that the U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement actually managed to receive the approval, however grudging, of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in early September. ...Continue reading . . .
Mira Kamdar: French Lessons
Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in Europe, France, Russia | Comments
When I was an undergraduate in college (in the last century), French was considered the language of diplomacy. My United States passport, despite the recent estranged "Freedom Fries era" of ...Continue reading . . .
Steven Hill: China and the Long Road Ahead
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in China | Comments
During the Olympics, China showed the world that it can throw a heck of a coming out party. But traveling here afterward, one sees the many complexities and challenges facing ...Continue reading . . .
Ketevan Ninua: The Cold War Never Ended
Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Europe, International Law, Russia | Comments
Ketevan Ninua is a co-founder of Georgian Center of Technology, a technology and engineering institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, and a board member of ProGeorgia.org, Inc. Born in Tbilisi, she is ...Continue reading . . .