With the new edition of Foreign Affairs now out, we can gorge ourselves on the feast that is Rudy Giuliani's essay about his national security priorities. And...
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.
George Packer on Karl Rove’s departure
Over at the New Yorker's blog, George Packer (whose December 2006 piece played a big part in bringing counter-insurgency guru David Kilcullen to prominence)...
Afghanistan: glass half empty or half full?
My CIC colleague Barney Rubin has an excellent post this morning comparing the recent New York Times and Wall Street Journal [subscribers only, annoyingly]...
Summer reading: The Upside of Down
If you're off on holiday shortly and casting around for some readable tome, try Thomas Homer-Dixon's outstanding The Upside of Down. Homer-Dixon's 300 page...
Question Time questions David Dimbleby is unlikely to ask…
Meanwhile, James Wolcott alerts us to lively goings-on at the snappily titled blog 'John Cole's Balloon Juice', where the combined intellectual might of the...
4GW arrives at Number 10
Included in Matthew d'Ancona's highly readable report back from Gordon Brown's trip to the US - the excellent news that GB has become a devotee of leading 4GW...
Climate-driven sea level rise: whole metres this century?
Celebrated climate scientist James Hansen has blunt tidings in the last edition of New Scientist: "I find it almost inconceivable that 'business as usual'...
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you…
Gideon Rachman's amusing piece in the FT today about conspiracy theories brings to mind the little visited but nevertheless glorious section of the US State...
The AP6 climate partnership: some way to go…
As the US-EU bidding war hots up over what should replace Kyoto when it expires in 2012, expect to hear plenty more about the 'AP6' - or, to give it its full...
Brown in the US
Most coverage this morning of the Bush-Brown summit at Camp David stresses the extent to which both men were at pains to defuse any perception of a bust-up....
Facebookzilla
WatchMojo.com has a useful analysis of the new Facebook Platform (the thing that's recently caused your Facebook newsfeed to be overrun with invitations to...
That Gonzales testimony fiasco in full…
Readers will already be aware from news coverage that US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales's testimony at the Senate didn't go so well earlier this week...
Sandy Berger and Bill Lind on Iraq
We haven't tended to engage much with Iraq on GlobalDashboard, in my case largely because I'm not sure I have much to add - though I've long felt that...
Statebuilding and the law of unintended consequences
Rachel Morarjee has a good feature in the FT today with gloomy news on Afghanistan. Especially alarming, she writes, is the decision by donor agencies...
Jules on CBT in Prospect
Global Dashboard contributor (and my brother) Jules Evans has a superb piece in this month's Prospect magazine about Stoicism and cognitive behaviour therapy....
The underground lake in Darfur: a blessing or a curse?
Lots of hopeful coverage last week about the find, made by Boston University researchers, of a massive underground lake in Darfur. The Independent was pretty...
HIV: doing the maths
Some blunt words from the US's new envoy on HIV and AIDS, Anthony Fauci, who says: "For every one person that you put in [antiretroviral] therapy, six new...
Should UNMOVIC have been wound up?
The UN Security Council decided on Friday to terminate the mandate of UNMOVIC - the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, itself the...
Miliband’s first speech
David Miliband's first speech as Foreign Secretary, given at Chatham House earlier today, is worth watching (transcript on the FCO website here). He's...
World Bank moving towards more participatory approach
Earlier this week I went to an event attended by various senior policymakers discussing global risks and the inadequacy of the international system to deal...
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When the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was announced, Alex Evans laid out a useful typology of the five kinds of people you find on high level panels. They were: Visionaries: Those who already know the overall message they want a panel to send...