Afghanistan: new strategy, old problem,
Barack Obama’s fresh military approach only postpones the hardest choice of all
After Copenhagen,
The climate-change conference at Copenhagen on 7-18 December 2009 has long been surrounded by high (if perhaps unrealistic) hopes that a successor deal to the Kyoto protocol could be reached that would reflect the world’s firm commitment to...
Dubai and Abu Dhabi: implosion and opportunity,
“Dubai Inc.”, the corporate definition and image that for years has held together the many components of the territory’s much vaunted economic model, is in trouble. The foundation of its success - the nexus of big umbrella companies that...
Moldova - the Switzerland solution?,
“The Istanbul Commitments.” It’s not Turks getting married. Or an Irish soul band that’s lost its way. Or even the title of a spy movie in which Matt Damon chases foreign troops and weapons out of occupied former Soviet territories,...
Meeri Piribis: carrying the torch of hope ,
Binalakshmi was 11 years old when she witnessed her first massacre in her home state of Manipur. Twenty three people were killed. Since then 2 to 3 people have been killed each day in this small north-eastern state, making it one of the most...
Why a British by-election cannot bury the SNP,
So the party is over for the Scottish National Party according to the British media. Victory for Labour in the Glasgow North East by-election shows that the SNP are incapable of defeating Labour and worse than that opinion polls show low support for...
NATO allies join US Afghan surge,
Speaking to reporters at a NATO summit in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that the alliance will be sending at least 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Predicting that ‘at least’ 25 countries will be sending...
United Nations Security Council extends sanctions against Congo rebels,
The United Nations Security Council voted earlier this week to renew sanctions on rebel groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The sanctions, first imposed in 2003 and renewed for a further year, target rebel groups...
Not-so-private equity,
According to Financial Times, Guy Hands, the head of Terra Firma, a private equity house with offices in London, Frankfurt, and Guernsey, has warned of dire consequences for economic growth if governments did not press the banks they now control to...
Mandelson vs. Murdoch,
I never expected to agree with Peter Mandelson but it has happened today. He has just made a speech in the House of Lords in which he warned that the Murdoch empire is imperiling British broadcasting and pledging the government to fight the Murdoch...
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