Americas

November 25, 2008

Justice in Suspended Animation

It’s remarkable how often I come across stories from other lawyers working in faraway foreign jurisdictions, sharing tales of frustration and disbelief over the lack of due process and independence of the courts, and finding myself face-to-f...
November 24, 2008

Brazil Drives a Hard Bargain on Russia

Dmitry Medvedev’s tour of Latin America is certainly making some headlines, but as I mentioned this weekend, there are still some fundamental misunderstandings about Russia’s goals in the region.  However I did see an interesting ...
November 24, 2008

Speaking Farsi in Caracas

It’s not just Russian you’ll hear on the streets of Venezuela’s capital these days, as several Iranian businesses have sent hundreds of employees over to begin work on various “friendship” projects at the invitation o...
November 22, 2008

Missing the Point on Latin America

With the APEC Summit getting underway this weekend in Lima, Peru, the world’s eyes are on Latin America, focusing with unusual interest over this oft-forgotten continent, looking for an indication of the prevailing economic winds.  Natu...
November 21, 2008

Why the Iskander?

Ariel Cohen at Heritage believes that Moscow has made a “shrewd geopolitical move” by threatening U.S. president-elect Barack Obama with missiles in Kaliningrad, and may have inadvertently painted him into a corner, given that he will ...
November 20, 2008

Politics, Business, or Both in Venezuela?

From today’s Financial Times about Dmitry Medvedev’s extended trip to Latin America, figuratively following in the footsteps of China’s Hu Jintao: “The Russians want to demonstrate that two can play at this game,” sai...
November 20, 2008

Narrative of Grievance

An editor at CNN’s AC360 blog talks with a group of Russia experts at AEI over Dmitry Medvedev’s view of Barack Obama: Andrei Kortunov of the New Eurasia Foundation says “we destroyed the old foundations of the relationship and h...