“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what̵...
As many of you know, I am quite fascinated by Latin America’s sudden “brotherhood” with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here a Washington Post editorial really hits home the fact that the Lula Administration really m...
Writing at the New Republic, Michael Crowley scrounges deep down in the evidence bin for an argument on Russia’s Iran policy: In recent weeks, Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been derided by critics who say he has...
Vlad Ryzhkov’s latest article over in the Moscow Times is worth a read, as it delves into that familiar and beloved topic of the comparative authoritarian models of Russia and China, and the challenged assumption that democracy is good or ba...
Buried down at the bottom of this blog post attacking Obama’s Russia policy (mostly just picking on Joe Biden – it is the National Journal after all), are some interesting quotes from Igor Yurgens – a key advisor to Medvedev and ...
You’ve got to respect Global Witness … for a watchdog NGO, they bring a lot of creativity and innovation to their cause (see this past campaign for another example). GW has also done a tremendous job in the past unearthing all th...
Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, dissects Russia’s foreign policy in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs in an article entitled, “Russia Reborn.” Following is the passage I think resonates the mos...
Reprinted from Robert Amsterdam’s latest in the Huffington Post: The effusive praise President Barack Obama has for former Singaporean Prime Minister and now Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is another gesture that has led many to wonder where t...
We have just received a copy of an open letter from Amnesty International Canada to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in advance of his upcoming trip to the forthcoming APEC meeting in Singapore, followed by a visit to India. The letter urges...
One of my favorite blogs, Business Monitor International’s Risk Watchdog, had a post yesterday discussing the wider historical context of the Berlin Wall’s fall. The discussion of the persistence of Communism and the comparison between...
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