On Indian strategic talent, ambitions and real capabilities
GB: What do the recent explosions in Tianjin, China mean...
Tags: Afghanistan, C. Raja Mohan, China, Defence Research and Development Organization, Global Brief, India, India's economy, India's strategic culture, India-China relations, India-Russia relations, India-US relations, Iran nuclear deal, NATO, Ukraine
This coalition of the willing will score some short-term victories, but should brace for longer-term pain
A coalition of...
Tags: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Arabinda Acharya, Dharitri Dwivedy, Global Brief, Iraq, Iraqi army, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Sunni-Shia divide, Syria, The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
GB sits down with the former Australian premier to discuss the future of Asian stability and the continent’s not-so-automatic...
Tags: Afghanistan, APEC, ASEAN, Asia-Pacific, China, East Asia Summit, Global Brief, Iran, Kevin Rudd, Korean peninsula, nuclean proliferation, Organization of Islamic Countries
Les conflits au Mali et en Centrafrique dĂ©montrent que lâasymĂ©trie nâa pas trouvĂ© son remĂšde doctrinal: face Ă autre...
Tags: Afghanistan, Centrafrique, Clausewitz, FrĂ©dĂ©ric Charillon, Global Brief, Grand Moyen-Orient, Irak, la guerre froide, la puissance moderne, le Hezbollah, Liban, lâUnion soviĂ©tique, major powers, Mali, Sun Tzu
Resolution: Afghanistan will be a source of global instability after 2014
John Duncan (in favour): History suggests that...
Tags: Afghan National Security Forces, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Arab Spring, Central Asia, Cold War, Daniel P. Fata, Global Brief, Hamid Karzai, John Duncan, Middle East, NATO, NATO Summit, Northern Alliance, Taliban, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UN Development Programâs Human Development Index, US Congress
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
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