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...
Judah Grunstein has a good piece in World Politics Review arguing that Turkey, rather than Iran, comes out as the biggest winner from the Iraq war debacle. However it is the degree to which Ankara comes into conflict with Moscow over regiona...
We’ve given the recent Bollywood summit between Dmitry Medvedev and Mahoman Singh a bit of coverage, but here MK Bhadrakumar gets more in depth. Despite his baroque, flowery writing style, the author provides a glimpse into the future ...
Dmitry Medvedev has had an action-packed trip to Mumbai. Accompanied by a delegation of some 100 state businessmen, the Russian president arrived in Delhi to announce his high regard for their “privileged” partnership, and urged ...
I saw this interesting article in the Financial Times earlier this week, and did not want to let it go by unmentioned. The journalist reports from some excerpts of a new Standard & Poor’s report on trade relations and economic growth be...
As Viktor Bout heads from the confines of his Bangkok cell towards the United States in a specially chartered jet, one can only wonder about what kind of improbable backroom deals were put in place to secure his extradition. On an intelligence lev...
Der Spiegel breaks a big story: Central Asia is still important. Just because Washington has given up on the region doesn’t mean that Russia, China, and Europe are still engaged. Turkmenistan, the least populous of the five natio...
This week my law firm participated in the filing of a preliminary report on behalf of the Thai Red Shirt movement and others to notify the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with regard to the situation of recent political violence, ar...
Looks like the G20 is rapidly losing credibility, as core members Brazil and India have both spurned meetings this week ahead of the November summit in South Korea. There are some interesting factors pushing emerging BRIC nations away from t...
China’s recent aggressive power plays on the world stage ahead of the next G20 meeting have been dominating the news. The dispute with Japan over an arrested fisherman and some uninhabited rocks unveiled a bold new level of rhetoric, w...
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