At the G20 summit one prospect frightened most of the delegates more than their inability to stem the economic downturn: that China would emerge as the de...
Daniel Korski
Daniel Korski is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yemen as well as in the United States. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Project on National Security Forum.
Russia takes advantage of Obama’s detente
Russia is now demanding that NATO halt its planned military exercises in Georgia. On a visit to Armenia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that...
India votes amid uncertainty
From today until May 13 the world’s largest democracy will be heading to the polls. India's voters will be electing 543 members of parliament in the country’s...
The Twitter Revolution
In the Moldovan capital, Chisinau protesters have stormed the parliament and the presidential palace denouncing Sunday's Communist election victory and...
Does Karzai read Global Dashboard?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai provoked international outrage with draconian restrictions on women and laws that explicitly sanction marital rape. A leaked...
Europe’s Afghan Test
Now that President Obama has laid down his AfPak strategy, it is time for European governments to follow suit. As I show in this new ECFR brief, they have not...
Can the Pakistani Diaspora Save Pakistan?
The Sunday newspapers have lots of stories about how the man behind anti-war protest targeting British soldiers in Luton -- Anjem Choudary –- has encouraged...
Can NATO “Re-brand”? What do you think?
During the Cold War, when Western and Warsaw Pact tanks were facing each other, the idea of a “selling” NATO’s role to allied publics would have been...
EU fails to appoint Bosnia envoy – again
The EU’s attempts at finding a replacement for the bloc’s envoy in Bosnia has moved from drama to tragedy, with Emyr Jones Perry rejected alongside the latest...
Reach for the Sky
In the Times today there is a story about one of the greatest British counter-insurgents, Emma Sky. Military commanders describe the Arabic-speaking, British...
Irrational Exuberance Lives On
Irrational exuberance is alive and well. Spawned by Obama’s candidature and sustained despite his recent setbacks, many people still seem to believe that all...
Pirate-in-Chief
The new African Union (AU) chairman Muammar Gaddafi -- Tony Blair’s friend, Nicolas Sarkozy’s partner, freer of hostages, and friend to the enslaved –- has...
Bring on the envoys
Richard Holbrooke (the new US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan) and Sherard Cowper-Coles (his British counterpart) did not have South Asia to themselves for...
Sri Lanka rejects Des Browne
So Sri Lanka has now rejected Gordon Brown's appointment of Des Browne as a special envoy to the island. President Mahinda Rajapaksa said the appointment was...
Engaging Diasporas in Peace-building
Diaspora and exile groups may play an important, but sometimes also controversial, role in conflicts and political unrest in their countries of origin. Often...
Dashboard Broke the News
You will be pleased to know that this blog is now not only good for analysis, but is also sometimes first with the news... Earlier today, Gordon Brown...
Welsh diplomat may head to Bosnia
Since Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak resigned as High Representative and EU special representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there has been a mad scramble...
Envoys galore
For many years, the US has influenced UK national security thinking and vice versa. The 1947 National Security Act, pushed through by Harry Truman, was in...
The UN’s Gaza lie?
One of the most disturbing stories to emerge during Israel’s recent incursion in Gaza was Israeli shelling of a UN school. This is how Reuters described it:...
A heard of Tory GOATS?
Something odd is happening. Though the Tories are cruising for electoral success, many sympathisers are worried that the party has neither the policies nor...
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