#Great Decisions 2013

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Red Line: Iran, Israel and the Bomb
February 27, 2013 7 min. read

Foreign Policy Association’s 2013 “Great Decisions in Foreign Policy” on PBS, a series of half hour documentaries providing background information for and evaluation of leading contemporary issues, airs this March. The forthcoming series includes a segment on Iran’s controversial nuclear ambitions. “Red Line: Iran, Israel, and the Bomb” begins with the same powerful introduction as […]

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Review of “The Generals and the Democrat: Burma in Transition”
February 20, 2013 4 min. read

  Last year I reported on the gradual opening of the political environment in Burma (last update here), including the incorporation of former dissident Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party National League of Democracy into parliament. The “Great Decisions in Foreign Policy” series on PBS — produced by Foreign Policy Association — has taken a […]

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China’s Dangerous Game: Resource Investment and the Future of Africa
October 12, 2012 8 min. read

By Nathan William Meyer It was an important day for Angola, June 20th, 2006.  Amid the diplomatic pomp and handshakes of an official visit, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the Luanda General Hospital and had his picture taken peering into a microscope surrounded by officials in suits and medics in white smocks. The capital’s General […]

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