We found these comments from Martin Indyk at Brookings Institution very interesting regarding the effectiveness and coherence of U.S. foreign policy amid an especially bitter and hard fought campaign season. If the parties are willing to throw th...
Earlier this week we came across a very interesting article published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais by Joaquín Villalobos, a former Salvadoran FMLN guerrilla fighter turned peace ambassador. His experiences working to bring change under one of ...
The following is an excerpt from a new article I contributed to the U.K. magazine Prospect. Since the time of writing, several important events have taken place in Venezuela. Chávez has used his decree powers to pass new internet regulations, al...
Oh boy. You’d think this reporter worked for RT rather that ITAR-Tass – usually they’re the ones who specialize in that whole political-sadism-at-moments-of-national-tragedy shtick. That said, this is totally being bl...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez maintains in detention varying numbers of political prisoners at any given time, but the case which has stood out the most over the past year has been that of Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni. Imprisoned for no rea...
Today the Toronto Star is running an extensive profile of Robert Amsterdam – we’re grateful for their interest, and hope you enjoy. By Monday we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. “I don’t think any r...
When Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko stole an election last Dec. 19, followed by a violent crackdown against protesting citizens and the arrests of some 600 political prisoners, among them, five presidential candidates, you could hardly ...
Now that New START has finally been passed by the Senate – which was going to happen at some point or another – conservative commentator Jacob Heilbrunn observes that the Republicans damaged their national security credibility by oppos...
Moscow’s relationship with Hugo Chavez has long been a topic of obsession on this blog, so it’s been pretty interesting to get access to some of the leaked diplomatic cables underscoring U.S. concern over arms transactions between the ...
We’ve been following this developing deal between Canada’s Uranium-One and the Rosatom subsidiary ARMZ, but it’s only this week that it looks like the transaction is wrapping up with U.S. approval from CIFIUS. The Financial...
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