This week in foreign policy, the world’s top news stories are reviewed in a new FPA video feature. FPA blogger Crystal Huskey discusses implications of the famine in Somalia, and Walter Raubeson warns of sectarian violence in Syria. Many thanks to both bloggers for their insightful input!
The congratulations have rolled in from around the world. As has United Nations recognition. And a new currency. And of course a new president in Salva Kiir. People have celebrated in the streets and generally speaking a mood of hope and optimism and happiness prevails. Exiles from years of civil war and devastation have returned. […]
Is the provision of inexpensive, sturdy bicycles part of the solution to poverty in sub-Saharan Africa? I have no idea. But I can certainly see bicycles as a potential social good for a host of reasons, poverty alleviation being only one. In my research on my current book project on bus boycotts in the United […]
Ok, so imagine for a moment that you are a member of the Zimbabwean opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Within days of hammering out a deal with your alleged coalition partner in government, Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, that decided that elections would not be held until next year, you wake up one morning […]
We now have a deal from France, Germany and the ECB: bending European Financial Stability Facility rules to allow recapitalization of banks and create easier credit terms for Euro countries; and debt rollover into longer-term (some might argue “indefinitely long” given Greek debt of 140 percent of GDP) maturities. Most chillingly, the plan bakes in […]
The Japanese prime minister has caused something of a stir with his recent remark that perhaps Japan should end its reliance on nuclear power altogether, as Germany and Italy are in the process of doing. The obvious implications are in energy and climate policy, both national and global. But there’s also a more subtle military […]
Perhaps one should not read too much into the wave of strikes that seems to have taken over South Africa in recent weeks and led to what at least one observer has called “strike fever.” After all, one of the signs of South Africa’s vibrant civil society is the strength of its unions, especially given […]
With the help of development aid Sierra Leone has joined the ranks of sub-Saharan African countries offering free medical care for women with a particular emphasis on women and children. Even if it is too early to glean whether or not these programs are a success, suggestive evidence indicates that more women are being helped […]
We’re all very well aware of the political predicament Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is currently facing. In a “damned if does, and damned if he doesn’t” scenario, Iraq’s political boss is stuck between the presumed necessity of US military support to secure his fragile government and the obvious friction a continued troop presence would create […]
Dan Drezner imagines the lead paragraphs of prominent world affairs pundits if they covered the Women’s World Cup.
Well, I’ve made the big time. As a result of my role in Freedom Riders, I now have an IMDB page. A barren, consequenceless IMDB page, but an IMDB page nonetheless. But I’ve buried the lede. Freedom Riders has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including “Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking,” “Writing for Nonfiction […]
Two Afghanistan items in the media grabbed my attention today for two different but related reasons. First, a Reuter’s article on the first Afghan women to qualify as pilots arriving in the U.S. for training reminded me of the continuing progress that has been made by NATO as part of their training mission of the […]
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