Answer: $1.2 billion per year. That is how much Serbia’s failure to capture the man who is accused of orchestrating the massacre at Srebrenica has cost the country in lost investment, according to government estimates. As many have noted, his arrest should now pave the way for Serbian admission to the EU (though this process […]
Azeri journalist Eynullah Fatullayev, who has been serving a variety of prison sentences since April of 2007, was given his freedom today in one of President Aliyev’s amnesties. As readers of this blog are aware, the charges against Fatullayev had ranged from libel to inciting terror to tax evasion – and more recently, to drug […]
So, you know that referendum that allowed South Sudan to go its own way? And you know how Khartoum said that it would not intervene to prevent the separation? Well, Omar al-Bashir’s government might have meant it, but they sure were not going to yield the contested terrain of oil-rich Abyei. And so earlier this […]
http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2011/05/25/the-oath-2010/
Beginning on Thursday, May 26, Canada’s Carleton University will host a conference on cooperation in the Arctic between three of the region’s five littoral states: Canada, Norway, and Russia. High-ranking officials from each country will be in attendance, including the Russian Ambassador to Canada, Georgiy Enverovich MAMEDOV, the Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister, Espen Barthe Eide, […]
The Following piece is written by a Yemeni-based journalist who writes for the Foreign Policy Blogs network and, due to serious security concerns, remains anonymous. Embattled President Saleh announced on Wednesday morning in an interview with Reuters that Yemen would not become another failed state like Somalia; and that he will not allow the country […]
Telecom company Softbank Corp.’s president Masayoshi Son will shoulder most of the 80 billion yen ($975 million) cost of building 10 large-scale solar power plants. The governors of 19 of Japan’s 47 prefectures have signed on to take part in the project. Shizuoka governor Heita Kawakatsu said: “The (recently shut down) Hamaoka nuclear power plant […]
Protest rallies in Georgia, begun over the weekend in Tbilisi and Batumi, seem to be headed for violent confrontation today (Wednesday afternoon in the US, early Thursday morning in Tbilisi) after apparently failing to achieve the goals of their organizers or to attract widespread public support. It’s not that the latest opposition movement (called the […]
“This conference cannot close without adopting a single African Charter. We cannot leave here without having created a single African organization…. If we fail in this, we will have shirked our responsibility to Africa and to the peoples we lead.” So said Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie at a Pan-African summit in 1963 at which the […]
In what was one of his longest speeches to date, last Friday Mexican President Felipe Calderón gave a resounding defense of his administration’s battle against organized crime and sought to compare critics of his governments’ security policies to those who doubted of Churchill’s resolve in confronting the Nazis. Calderón went on extend the comparison between […]
As the architects of the Iraq war remain holed up in this last bastion of neo-conservatism, AEI’s continued influence and Gates’ congruence to their guidance may come as a surprise to many, in an era of hope and change
Japan posted its trade deficit Wednesday and the numbers are bleak. Following the March 11 quake and tsunami that caused a disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, large Japanese manufactures like Sony and Toyota have suspended production. Japanese exports in April fell 12.5 percent from a year earlier. Exports declined to 5.16 trillion […]
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