No new photographic highlights of M. Sarkozy's style choices this week, but Bernard Kouchner steps into the breach, looking good to honor the Dalai Lama:
Richard Gowan
Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).
Georgia: will Russia’s tactical victory lead to its strategic defeat?
With each day that passes, members of the commentariat out-bid each other with explanations of how events in Georgia signify the decline of the West. ...
Who is winning the Olympics? Part 74: the Empire
Further to David's posts on who is topping the Olympic medal table (the EU or the Queen?), Guido Fawkes points out that it is in fact, the Empire: This one...
Gerhard Schröder is not a Georgian
Der Spiegel has a fairly astonishing interview with Gerhard Schröder, a man who likes Russia: SPIEGEL: Do you believe that the American military advisors...
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
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After state-building: the new UN minimalism?
In early August, Daniel wrote a punchy post entitled "After state-building". Looking at American debate about what to do in Afghanistan and Iraq, he...
New mechanism for international dialogue: Hoff Space
It's a cliché that our networked, wired world suffers from a dearth of true leaders - visionaries who know how to use new technologies to build virtual...
Can the Clinton camp quit carping?
In the current Atlantic Monthly, Joshua Green paints an astonishing picture of the Clinton campaign's self-destructive tendencies. The whole thing was, in...
Iran likes Georgia more than Chris de Burgh
Daniel noted a few days ago that, while the EU has ramped up aid to Georgia, U.S. efforts have got much more publicity. But there are others in the aid game:...
European and Russian troops: can you spot the difference? (CLUE: there are no combat penguins in South Ossetia).
Earlier this week, I wondered if we might soon see European personnel under Russian command in Georgia to help keep (well, keep an eye on) the peace. But...
Summer crisis? Get the look!
Number two in our occasional series of tributes to the iconic style of M. Sarkozy:
Tamara Urushadze is one very brave woman
Alex is keeping us up-to-date on the British media's efforts to tell us what is really going on around the Olympics, but here's some even braver journalism. ...
EU troops under Russian command?
The idea that EU personnel should help keep the peace in Georgia - noted here yesterday but in the air since last week - is gaining traction. Today, the...
Georgian peacekeeping: the Rwanda connection
So the war in Georgia is over for now (or as Finnish FM Alex Stubb nicely puts it "traditionally, we will see a few skirmishes, but frontal attacks and...
Georgia: when the smoke clears
The international response to events in Georgia is still at the declaratory stage, and some analysts predict a long struggle. It's not a good sign when the...
Olympian thought
For those who, like me, find their attention wandering somewhere between the coxless fours and the javelin, there's some good news. John Fox, one of ECFR's...
Euro-American-African legal smackdown out of control
In July, I argued that the African Union's discomfort with the indictment of Sudan's President Bashir might be a turning-point in the evolution of...
Seriously?
A story from Australia. A charity program sending bras to women in developing nations has provoked debate about what's appropriate assistance. The Uplift Fiji...
Joined-up community security strategy results in punch to head
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What if India gave up on the UN?
My recent extended growl about the parlous state of peacekeeping has been cited as evidence in a fascinating online debate among Indian security analysts on...
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