Americas

January 4, 2010

Democracies Don’t Always Stick Together

In addition to that article on Brazil by Susan Kaufman Purcell published in the Wall Street Journal today, Gideon Rachman’s latest column in the Financial Times (see excerpts below) is the second time in one day we’ve the Obama Adminis...
December 30, 2009

Why Brazil Should Take a Stronger Position on Hugo Chávez

Robert Amsterdam has just published a translation of an opinion article from O Estado de São Paulo on The Huffington Post. There is great merit in Brazil’s ability to maintain friendly relations with so many different nations of different va...
December 26, 2009

Why Spheres of Influence Don’t Work

Ronald Asmus has a good editorial on the evolving security dynamic between Russia and the European Union and United States published in the Washington Post: Europe’s bloody history illustrated that spheres of influence do not produce real se...
December 21, 2009

A Call for Canada-Russia Cooperation in the Arctic

The author and project leader of ArcticNet, Michael Byers, has an optimistic piece published in the Globe and Mail today arguing for a renewed effort of cooperation between the Canadian and Russian governments on mutual recognition of arctic sover...
December 16, 2009

UN Experts Criticize Chávez for Judicial Crackdown

I know that we try to put all our Venezuela news over on the other blog these days unless it has something to do with Russia, this is still some pretty dramatic news from Robert Amsterdam’s case down there, holding down the front pages of th...
December 15, 2009

Reviewing the Russia-Venezuela-Cuba-China-Iran nexus

Jaime Suchlicki, Director of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, has a paper summarising the Russia-Venezuela-Cuba-China-Iran relationship entitled, “The Cuba-Venezuela Challenge to Hemispheric Sec...
December 12, 2009

Chávez Holds a Hostage following Cedeño Release

As we published in our posting yesterday, there have been several arbitrary, senseless arrests in Venezuela following the judicial order which released Eligio Cedeño on his own recognizance. Most of the press has focused on the detention of Judge ...