Last week, I spoke in front of the San Diego World Affairs Council North Chapter (an affiliate of FPA) about the rising objectives and capabilities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Here is my presentation in slides (go to the bottom of the page). I though some you might be interested in some of the articles […]
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Welcome to the Arctic blog, the latest addition to the Foreign Policy Blogs network.
Today Tehran celebrates 30 years since Revolution. There is nothing there to celebrate in practical terms, unless, they want to celebrate misery, and the megalomaniacs mullahs ignoring and trespassing the population rights and liberties. In spite of what President Ahmadinejad wants to sell, the answer to all problems is not to export the Islamic revolution […]
The Daily Star had yesterday an interesting editorial. You can read it all here. A third party, therefore, should be built on bold ideas to finally rid this country of the slow but steady fratricide known as sectarianism. In addition, it must devise methods of fighting the culture of corruption that has infected the public […]
“In 1999, while taking a break from my PhD to try to get rich in the fine jewellery business, I nearly became the world's largest counterfeiter of Fabergé eggs”. So begins jeweller-turned-philosophy professor Clancy Martin's hilarious account of his aborted attempt to create an international criminal operation involving an oligarch-mobster and using a group of […]
The EU is beginning to fret about recent economic protectionist impulses by Member-States and the Czech Republic has decided to act, as they currently hold the 6-month EU Presidency. They have called a special summit of EU leaders for later this month to discuss recent Member-State “protectionist steps and statements”. This is especially a response […]
allAfrica has the full text of President Kgalema Motlanthe's State of the Nation Address.
Troops opened fire on political protesters near the presidential palace in Antananarivo, the national capital, on Saturday. Reports indicate that thirty people died and many more were wounded. As a result, the country's defense minister, Cecile Manorohonta, has resigned, saying the violence to weighed on her conscience. Ever since opposition leader Andry Rajoelina publicly challenged President […]
Just what sort of person would confess to reading the FPA Russia blog? In the first of an occassional series, we caught up with Scott Spires, a Moscow-based linguist, translator, writer, and recreational Russia Blog user. FPA Russia Blog: How do you like living in Russia? SS: I love it, despite the occasional aggravations and […]
Newly appointed Afghanistan/Pakistan US ‘representative’, which gives him a bit more power than an ‘envoy’, stated during a Munich security conference that the war in Afghanistan will be a ‘long and difficult struggle,’ one which is 'tougher than Iraq.’ Not exactly breaking news, but it's important to know where Mr. Holbrooke stands and how he […]
_ FPA Russia blog sometimes gives the Guardian's Russian man Luke Harding a hard (ahem) time, but hats off to him for today's chilling and well-researched investigation into rising skinhead and neo-Nazi violence. Ultranationalist gangs, whose members are mostly in their early 20s or even younger, are responsible for over 300 brutal killings since 2004. […]
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