Saturday's Guardian magazine had an excellent article about airport security, quoting Bruce Schneier (whose blog should be on your must-read list): The...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
US says it has right to “kidnap” British citizens wanted for prosecution in US
In another bold demonstration of their innovative approach to public diplomacy, senior lawyer for the US government has announced - in a British court, no...
“A really inconvenient truth”
Wonkette has been pondering the just-out McKinsey study on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The study, she says... ...kinda found that the biggest...
The teddy bear incident: a triumph for moderates
The right wing blogosphere in the US is, needless to say, having a field day about the jailing of Gillian Gibbons over the teddy bear incident in Sudan - just...
Moqtada al-Sadr: why so quiet?
William Lind notes this week that the reason parts of Iraq have quietened down isn't only because al-Qaeda have managed to alienate their own base through...
Now that’s a job description
The Land Registry is looking for a special kind of candidate: Senior Problem Manager: Responsible for managing all problems recorded in the Problem Management...
Human Terrain Teams
Wired brings news of the latest counter-insurgency innovation from the US Army - 'Human Terrain Teams'. Some creative thinking about influence is underway:...
Dazed and confused
The excellent Kevin Drum finds himself bewildered by the large gulf between his reaction to financial news and that of Wall Street: I will never understand...
Hi… I’m a progressive.
Here's an amusing Center for American Progress rip-off of the Mac advert to brighten up your morning.
Limbering up for the Olympics
Moises Naim is ruminating in this month's Foreign Policy that "It’s fair to say that the Chinese government probably had no idea what it was getting into when...
New report on climate and conflict
International Alert have published an excellent new report (funded in part by CIC) entitled A Climate of Conflict: the links between climate change, peace and...
How to get ahead in foreign policy
Dan Drezner is pondering how to answer all the people who ask him "how do you successfully pursue a career in foreign policy?". He finds that Peter Singer at...
Australia to return to the Kyoto fold?
What a coup it would be for the UN - and Ban Ki-Moon in particular - if one of Kyoto's prodigal sons returned to the fold ahead of the Bali climate summit...
Gordon Brown’s first climate change speech
Last week it was Gordon Brown's first speech as PM on foreign policy; yesterday, his first on climate change and the environment. I went along to listen. An...
Brown back in the bunker?
Lots of gossip in Whitehall about Sue Cameron's piece in the FT the day before yesterday: Oh dear! No one in Whitehall expected Gordon Brown to revert to type...
The world’s energy outlook
I was about to pull together some of the main threads in the IEA's 2007 World Energy Outlook (executive summary here), but Martin Wolf beat me to it in...
Jay-Z, the new Alan Greenspan
Further to yesterday's news about UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's big up to "my man Jay-Z", we now have news of currency markets being shaken by...
This one goes out to all my peeps on the 38th floor
My CIC colleague Vicki di Domenico brings to our attention the following important message from UN Secretary-General, His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon: "My man...
Avaaz video on Clash of Civilisations
Just spotted this Avaaz.org video from July, entitled 'Stop the Clash' [of civilisations]. It won this year's Progressive Source award for best...
New top spook is Grateful Dead fan
Benedict Brogan brings us this newsflash from his blog at DailyMail.co.uk: Downing Street has announced that Alex Allan is to become the new chairman of the...
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