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Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi betrays Africa
Lucas Liganga writes about Ethiopian Prime Ministers's betrayal: “Unfortunately, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles...
 
toatley
toatley posted a blog entry
The Year's Best in Global Political Economy
Drezner asks for five nominations for the Albies, his award for most paradigm-shifting articles/books/ideas of the past year in...
1 day ago IPE at UNC | Topics: IPE, Miscellany, International...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Saudi Arabia: Mixed and Interfaith Marriages
Tara Umm Omar, an American married to a Saudi Arabian, discusses Prophet Muhammad's mixed and interfaith marriages in this...
 
Baltimoron
Baltimoron posted a blog entry
Political Realism
Political realism is a philosophical paradigm within international relations. Its lasting contribution to social science is...
 
buco
buco posted a blog entry
Obama Establishes Copenhagen Accord, But We’re Not Done Yet
Shortly before leaving Copenhagen yesterday, President Obama announced that he had succeeded in finalizing the text of an...
 
Steven L
Steven L posted a blog entry
Obama Establishes Copenhagen Accord, But We’re Not Done Yet
Shortly before leaving Copenhagen yesterday, President Obama announced that he had succeeded in finalizing the text of an...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Azerbaijan: Education, free thought and development
Following a previous post from Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines on European concerns with the situation of freedom of...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Azerbaijan: Education, free thought and development
Following a previous post from Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines on European concerns with the situation of freedom of...
 
Carlos
Carlos posted a blog entry
Are you in?
U.N. averts climate collapse by noting new deal | Reuters.The big boys sort it out among themselves:A plenary session of...
 
Martin7
Martin7 posted a blog entry
U.S. Aided Yemeni Raids on Al Qaeda, Officials Say
The United States provided firepower, intelligence and other support to Yemen as it struck suspected hide-outs of Al Qaeda...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Haiti: Marching for Aristide
Repeating Islands reports that “supporters of former Haitian President and liberation theologian Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Haiti: Marching for Aristide
Repeating Islands reports that “supporters of former Haitian President and liberation theologian Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Trinidad & Tobago: Climate Responsibility
Blogging from Trinidad, Coffeewallah says of the climate change talks: “In Copenhagen world leaders debate over what they...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Trinidad & Tobago: Climate Responsibility
Blogging from Trinidad, Coffeewallah says of the climate change talks: “In Copenhagen world leaders debate over what they...
 
Filip Spagnoli
Filip Spagnoli posted a blog entry
Human Rights Quote (149): Immigration Restrictions
Showing that increased immigration tends to benefit natives reduces resistance on the margin, which is worth doing. But, in my...
 
testeribfw
testeribfw posted a blog entry
A Legacy of Regret for a Saudi Diplomat
Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, said his legacy would be one of disappointment because he had failed...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Bangladesh: South Asian Union By 2030
An Ordinary Citizen comments on the vision of Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus for a South Asian Union by the year...
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Bangladesh: South Asian Union By 2030
An Ordinary Citizen comments on the vision of Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus for a South Asian Union by the year...
 
Martin7
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Abkhazia Is Recognized — by Nauru
Facing depletion of its main resource, phosphates, Nauru is only the fourth nation to recognize the region, which separated...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Egypt: And this one goes to Djamila Bouhired
Algeria's 75-year-old activist and revolutionist Djamila Bouhired is ill and is beseeching her country and countrymen to...
 
Gybe
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Good old Paris. Day of building international relations. Perks of a corporate. Thanks RFQ.
 
<em>yaifuz26</em>
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Warmer Relations With Turkey Kindle Hopes in Syria
For Syrians, the new relationship suggests an embrace of a more open society and holds the promise of a revitalized regional economy.
 
VHPEditor
VHPEditor posted a blog entry
Canada said what? Phishing Spoof at Climate Change Summit
The Canadian government supposedly released an angry statement today, denouncing a spoof that supposedly made it as far as the...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
UK Cracks Down on Kenyan Corruption
The United Kingdom government has frozen aid donations for educational development in Kenya over allegations of fraud and...
 
blakehounshell
blakehounshell posted a blog entry
Punish Iran’s Rulers, Not Its People
The U.S. Congress is looking to penalize companies that help Iran import gasoline. But the plan is a huge giveaway to the very...
 
buco
buco posted a blog entry
Tuvalu representative: The fate of my country rests in the hands of the U.S. Senate.
The Wonk Room is blogging and tweeting live from Copenhagen.Yesterday, Ian Fry, the Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations...
 
Filip Spagnoli
Filip Spagnoli posted a blog entry
Human Rights Story (11): Alexander the Great in India
Alexander the Great, when conquering parts of India in 325 BC, frequently held conversations with local sages and philosophers....
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Nigeria Becoming ‘Worthless, Irrelevant to US – Ex-American Envoys
Speaking at the Achebe Colloquium on Nigerian elections held at Brown University, Providence, Ambassadors Princeton Lyman,...
 
JK
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@23jacob I had been considering the London Univ's ext prog in International Relations.. Have you heard anything good about it. if at all?
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Denmark: Ukrainian Blogger's Photos of Mass Arrests
Sergey Kovalyov (LJ user skovalyov; #skovalyov on Twitter) posts seven photos of mass arrests of protesters on Amagerbrogade in...
 
buco
buco posted a blog entry
White House issues statement ‘strongly’ condemning Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
On Friday, the White House issued a statement to the Advocate, condemning the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently being...
 
mg©o
mg©o posted a tweet
LI: Dirk Höpfl is now connected to Michael Aldous (Associate Director of International Relations at IE Business School) http://ad.vu/pnju
 
buco
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Grassley finally condemns Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill: It’s ‘un-Christian and unjust.’
On Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) refused to condemn the Anti-Homosexuality Bill being considered by the Ugandan...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Ukraine: Bureaucracy and Incompetence at Defense Ministry
Sergei Maximishin, an award-winning Russian photographer, has recently tried to get the Ukrainian defense ministry's...
 
Rebecca M
Rebecca M posted a blog entry
Ukraine: “Bumpy Road to Democracy”
At OpenDemocracy.net, Andreas Umland writes about two books that “cast light on what the Orange Revolution was really...
 
<em>yaifuz26</em>
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China's soft power hits the brick wall of economics
Lost in the Nobel hoopla yesterday was this fascinating New York Times story by Michael Wines about the ways in which China's economy and foreign economic policy are vexing its neighbors.  China has long claimed to be just another developing...
 
buco
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Bolton’s Moral Compass: ‘We’re Not Going To Eliminate Violent Conflict’
In his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize this week in Oslo, Norway, President Obama noted that “we will not...
 
Pragmatic
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A fantastic fantasy
Pratap Bhanu Mehta makes a valid case for engaging Pakistan, but there have to be other prongs in the strategy.In...
 
Pragmatic
Pragmatic posted a blog entry
India-Russia contrast
Differing outcomes to similar importance of Russia and India to US interests in Afghanistan.Well, Holbrooke might not have...
 
blakehounshell
blakehounshell posted a blog entry
Latin America's New Cold War?
Venezuela's and Colombia's ambassadors to the United States tell their sides of an increasingly tense story.
 
Pasir Ris P
Pasir Ris P posted a blog entry
Obama’s quasi-ultimatum to Pakistan
Okay, it’s a strong prodIn his opening remarks at the first Takshashila Executive Programme on Strategic Affairs, hosted...
 
AfricanLoft
AfricanLoft posted a blog entry
Bars for Canada, Bikes for Ghana, Bucks for Cadbury
A help-the-poor-in-Africa campaign ran through the summer this year in Canada. For every hundred Caramilk, Dairy Milk or...
 
toatley
toatley posted a blog entry
First-Year Reading List
Charli Carpenter asks for help compiling a reading list for her grad school seminar in IR that will leave students...
17 days ago IPE at UNC | Topics: International...
 
buco
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Views From The Ground: Afghans Offer Mixed Reactions To Obama’s Surge Strategy
Following President Obama’s Afghanistan policy address last night, the media prominently featured political strategists,...