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Archive for January, 2009
THE INDEX - January 29, 2009
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in THE INDEX | Comments
Despite Barack Obama's promises for better relations with the Muslim world, Iranian hardliners in the government could block progress if the U.S. adopts "a shift in tactics" that merely revises the tone and ...Continue reading . . .
James Kraska & Brian Wilson: Fighting Pirates — The Pen and the Sword, Part II
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Piracy, Somalia, UN | Comments
In our article, “Fighting Pirates: The Pen and the Sword,” which appeared in the winter “Dear Mr. President” issue of World Policy Journal, we asserted that greater collaboration, increased prosecutorial capacity, ...Continue reading . . .
Charlotte Pudlowski: Sarkozy, Pop Culture’s New Icon
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in France | Comments
While Barack Obama may be the talk of the town, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is well on his way to becoming a new icon of American pop culture. Down in ...Continue reading . . .
The Index — January 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in THE INDEX | Comments
There is division in the European Union ranks over taking in detainees from Guantánamo when the prison closes. Only a few countries, Finland and Spain among them, showed support for the expected ...Continue reading . . .
Jonathan Power: Libya’s Lesson for Iran
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Iran, Libya, Middle East, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
It is rapidly becoming a truism that the Middle East problems are so intertwined that they must be all negotiated into tolerance and disarmament at more or less the same ...Continue reading . . .
Michael Deibert: Echoes of Obama on Australia Day
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Australia, Barack Obama | Comments
There we were, at a community meeting of indigenous Australians in the remote Northern Territory town of Borroloola, where dispersed communities of this frontier province come together only a scant ...Continue reading . . .
Nina L. Khrushcheva: The Best Enemy There Is
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
The fact that Russia is supposedly bad doesn't make America better, or better off now at the end of George W. Bush's presidency-mistrusted by the world, with two wars on ...Continue reading . . .
The Index — January 22, 2009
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in THE INDEX | Comments
While the world's attention was focused on Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, the financial crisis was moving in a familiar direction—a downward spiral. The new president's arrival did not immediately boost confidence in ...Continue reading . . .
Jodi Liss: The Woes of Timothy Geithner
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Finance, UN | Comments
This may sound peculiar coming from someone in a job with no security and that pays about a fifth of what he earns, but I feel sorry for future Treasury ...Continue reading . . .
Jocelyn McCalla: Obama & Haiti’s Window of Opportunity
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Barack Obama, Haiti, U.S. Foreign Policy | Comments
Barack Obama delivered a sober yet forceful speech at his inaugural as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. The speech covered a lot of ground in a ...Continue reading . . .