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How Electronics Are Penetrating North Korea's Isolation |
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9:10 am EST, Mar 15, 2005 |
Mr. Kim ordered the formation of a special prosecutor's office last November to arrest people who deal in South Korean goods, largely videotapes, or who use South Korean expressions or slang. Shh!!! The grammar police will hear you! How Electronics Are Penetrating North Korea's Isolation |
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New Signs on the Arab Street |
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| Topic: International Relations |
11:47 am EST, Mar 13, 2005 |
There are a lot of messages in this bottle. New Signs on the Arab Street |
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The Geo-Green Alternative |
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| Topic: International Relations |
6:12 pm EST, Jan 30, 2005 |
I am a geo-green. The geo-greens believe that if we put all our focus on reducing the price of oil, we will force more reform than by any other strategy. You give me $18-a-barrel oil and I will give you political and economic reform from Algeria to Iran. It is that simple. The Geo-Green Alternative |
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Beating the retreat on democracy |
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| Topic: International Relations |
7:22 pm EST, Dec 26, 2004 |
Torn between the demands of realpolitik and its vision of changing the world, Bushs team is consistently opting for compromises on both. For any foreign policy to be effective it must be credible. Bush's mantra of promoting democracy is one of those policies that simply will not be credible if allies such as General Musharraf are allowed to redefine democracy. Beating the retreat on democracy |
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7:14 pm EST, Dec 26, 2004 |
I would like to radicalize the discussion by proffering a thesis so contrarian in the current context that I should probably begin by asking readers indulgence. It is this: There are no fundamental disagreements or differences between the United States and Europe. Existing differences are often more apparent than real. When real, the differences are in all consequential cases actually agreements to disagree. And in any case, the views of Americans and Europeans have been converging for some time and will continue to do so. 'We' |
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7:11 pm EST, Dec 26, 2004 |
Fukuyama was right when he noted that the collapse of the Soviet Union also meant the collapse of the great ideological debate on how to organize economic and political life. There is always a market for an ideology of discontent. Hating America |
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Good News From the Arab World |
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7:06 pm EST, Dec 26, 2004 |
What is most likely is an increasing divide in the Arab world between the small, nimble states on the peripherythe gulf states, Jordan, Moroccoand the slumbering giants. Competition will force each state to focus on its own future. Good News From the Arab World |
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9:49 am EST, Dec 14, 2004 |
China is now powerful and influential enough to make American world dominance inconceivable. And in the longer term, China is bent upon and will achieve gross military and economic parity with the United States. China is methodically following the example of Meiji Japan. Though the dangers of epidemics and terrorist nuclear attacks are now obviously pre-eminent, rising behind them is a newer world yet. Unfortunately, it is in our nature neither to foresee nor prepare for what lies beyond the rim. Beyond the Rim |
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India starts to look beyond Pakistan |
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9:44 am EST, Dec 14, 2004 |
India is courting, and being courted. The country is beginning to escape its preoccupation with Pakistan. ... complicated by America's arms sales to Pakistan and its support for General Pervez Musharraf's bogus democracy ... China! India starts to look beyond Pakistan |
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8:36 pm EST, Dec 12, 2004 |
This book was mentioned earlier this year. It is now on sale, and the first chapter is available here. ... a panoramic portrait of this complex country ... The Idea of Pakistan will be an essential tool for understanding this critically important country. "Solid, comprehensive, informative, insightful, well-written, provocative, gripping, highly perceptive, thorough, balanced, intelligent. A must read." In recent years, Pakistan has become a strategically important state. The 9/11 final report identifies Pakistan as a high-priority state. Unfortunately, the US knows remarkably little about this country. Much of what has been written is palpably wrong, or at best superficial. The Idea of Pakistan |
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