The âgreat gameâ is moot. Success (or failure) depends on Kabul and the Afghans
Explaining the current situation in...
Tags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan foreign policy, Afghanistan reconstruction, Afghanistan war, Antara Desai, Arabinda Acharya, Central Asia geopolitics, Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement, Global Brief, Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, The Great Game
GB sits down with Stanfordâs Abbas Milani to discuss Iran: from Tehran and Bushehr to the Diaspora
GB Where do you see...
Tags: Abbas Milani, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Arab Spring, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, Bushehr, East Germany, Global Brief, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hoover Institution, Iran's domestic politics, Iran's nuclear programme, Iran-US relations, Iranian democracy, Iranian diaspora, Israël, Khamenei, Khomeini, Pahlavi, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Sharia, Social Contract, Stanford University, Syria, Turkish democracy
Gareth Evans
âŠit occurs in the context of the proper application of the much more nuanced âResponsibility to Protectâ...
Tags: Afghanistan, Bernard Kouchner, Bosnia, CĂŽte dâIvoire, double standards in foreign policy, droit dâingĂ©rence, Gareth Evans, gaza, genocide, Global Brief, ICISS, International Criminal Court, International Law Commission, John Dugard, Kofi Annan, Kosovo, Libya, mass atrocities, military intervention, NATO, R2P, Ramesh Thakur, Responsibility to Protect, Richard Falk, RtoP, Rwanda, Security Council Resolution, Security Council Resolution 1790, sovereignty, Tatiana Romanova, UN Charter, UN Security Council, UN World Summit, United Nations, Uniting for Peace Resolution, use of foce, Vietnam
Noam Chomsky
⊠based on the following: religion is a personal matter; politics is a public concern. They should be divorced,...
Tags: Afghanistan, church-state, Dale Turner, democracy, fanaticism, genocide, Guy Ben-Porat, Indigenous people, Israël, liberal freedoms, Noam Chomsky, religion, religion and politics, religious fundamentalism, Said T. Jawad, secular fundamentalism, secularists, theocracy, Yassine Al Haj Saleh
The stubborn Afghan theatre may very well be the incubator for new experiments in bottom-up stabilization of war-torn states
Ten...
Tags: Afghanistan, Ben Rowswell, Bush Administration, Condoleezza Rice, Global Brief, Kabul, Kandahar, nation building, NATO, Secretary of State Clinton, statebuilding, Tooryalai Wesa
Une armée pour faire la guerre à tout-va?
DerriÚre le débat actuel sur le service militaire en Allemagne et sur la...
Tags: Afghanistan, Allemagne, Barack Obama, Bundeswehr, Global Brief, gouvernement de coalition dâAngela Merkel, guerres en Afghanistan, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, la Nationale Volksarmee, la politique de dĂ©fense, lâOTAN, lâUnion europĂ©enne, lâUnion soviĂ©tique, lâUniversitĂ© de Marburg, rĂ©duction du budget de la dĂ©fense, Wolfgang Krieger
GB talks new-century politics and geopolitics â from the local to the general â with former UN Secretary-General Boutros...
Tags: Afghanistan, Africa's future, African conflicts, Arab Unity, Arab-Israeli conflict, Asian Union, Azerbaijan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Canada, Canada's future, Canada's success, Canadian nationality, diplomacy, Egypt, Egyptian elections, Egyptian politics, Ethiopia, Georgia, Global Brief, globalization, Hutu, ICJ, ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo, international affairs, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, Iran, Iran's nuclear program, Iraq, Jordan, Kissinger, Kosovo independence, League of Nations, Middle East Union, Mubarak, Muhammad Ali, One State Solution, Pakistan, Palestinians, secession, separatist movements, Sudan, Sunni-Shia divide, Syria, Tutsi, Two-States Solution, Uganda, UN reform, United Nations reform, water disputes, water shortages in the Middle East, Westphalia, winning states
The future of Afghanistan lies with its destitute rural majority, and its view of the world. Matthew Arnold reports from...
Tags: Afghan-Iran relations, Afghanistan, Afghanistan reconstruction, Afghanistan war, Global Brief, Hindu Kush Mountains, Kabul, Kapisa Province, Karzai, Karzai government, Matthew Arnold, Pashtun, rural Afghanistan, Tagab, Taliban insurgency, unemployment in Afghanistan, war in Afghanistan
Irreconcilable understandings of âthe peaceâ have betrayed the hollowness of saying âIâm for peace.â But time is...
Tags: 1967 borders, Afghanistan, Egypt, Flotilla, gaza, George Mitchell, Global Brief, Goldstone Report, impossible peace, Iran, Israël, Israel-Palestine, Israel-Palestinian conflict, Israelis, Oslo accord, Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, peace agreement, Peace Process, Peter Jones, PLO, Syria, Turkey, US, Vice-President Biden, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin
A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
Tags: Afghanistan, African Union, Al-Shaybani, Arab states, Asia, Avicenna, Caucasus, Central Asia, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, democracy, Economic Cooperation Organization, economic development, European Court of Human Rights, European Union, fertile crescent, geopolitical strategy, Global Brief, Hirad Abtahi, human rights, Ibn Haiyan, International Criminal Court, Iran, Israël, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Khwarazmi, League of Arab States, Mediterranean Union, Middle East, NAFTA, Organization of American States, Pakistan, peace in the Middle East, regional court for human rights, regional security, rule of law, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road, strategic calculus, supranationalism, Treaty of Kadesh, Treaty of Paris, Turco-Persian agreements, Turkey, UN Charter, Union of South American Nations, Union: Union
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