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Egypt’s Morsi Makes His Moves; Foreign Affairs Discusses What It Means
Read HereFiled under: Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, Middle East Tagged: Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hosni Mubarak, Israel, Middle East, North Africa, Politics, President Mohamed...
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The Quality Of Pakistan’s Government Will Never Be Better Than The Quality Of...
Read Here – Pakistan’s Briefcase Warriors – Foreign AffairsFiled under: Foreign Policy Tagged: Asif Zardari, Benzair Bhutto, bureaucracy, bureaucrats, Elections, military dictator, Nawaz Sharif,...
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Baked in and Wired: eDiplomacy @ State
Many foreign policy mandarins might not like or understand it, but the foreign policy operating environment is changing quickly. When in 2011 the Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, was unable to get...
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China and India’s Common Challenges En Route to Great Power
Global attention is increasingly turning towards Asia as the concurrent rises of China and India signify the nascent stages of the Asian 21st century. As part of this focus, greater reflection is being...
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Politics By Visual Means
Hollywood has always been an eager accomplice of Washington‘s political elites. But over the past few years, it has foreshadowed the decline of neoconservative ideology. Read Here – The EuropeanFiled...
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Weird Borders
Borders are fascinating places. The subtle changes in scenery and atmosphere as you near the limits of one territory and enter the orbit of the other; the way fencing gets higher and fiercer. Then...
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Are Embassies Dying?
One of the impacts of the global recession is that it has compelled a number of countries to scale back their diplomatic representation overseas by closing some of their embassies. Faced with the...
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The Death Of An Institution
The departure of Gambia and the fight over the Sri Lankan summit reveal how weak Commonwealth institutions have become. The secretariat is accused of actively dodging any politically sensitive issue,...
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Foreign Policy Going Local
It’s about time that diplomacy adapted to modern times. Information is no longer privy only to embassies. Today, many private intelligence firms, think tanks, and NGOs have better access to quality...
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Lust, Romance and Foreign Policy
the impact of romance on international affairs could never have been more evident than during the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15, an episode still hailed as one of the most important diplomatic events...
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Ah, Those Foreign Policy Cliches…
In his compelling essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell links the decline of civilizations to a self-reinforcing relationship between muddy thinking and bad writing. “If thought...
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Can You Define Realpolitik?
As realpolitik undergoes a renaissance in the English-speaking world, it is surely worth investigating what the word, coined in 1853, was originally supposed to entail. The answer to that question...
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Has The West Gone Soft?
There is none of the passion, none of the moral sense that inspired foreign policy in the time of former British premier Margaret Thatcher and former US president Ronald Reagan. Read Here – Gulf...
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A Dangerous Alignment
PRESIDENT BARACK Obama likes to say that America and the world have progressed beyond the unpleasantness of the nineteenth century and, for that matter, much of the rest of human history. He could not...
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China’s Definition Of Friends And Foes
Courtesy: Global TimesFiled under: Foreign Policy Tagged: Africa, Aid, ASEAN, China, diplomacy, Economy, Europe, Foreign Affairs, India, Indian Ocean, Japan, NATO, PLA, Politics, Russia, South America,...
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Modi And His Foreign Policy Doctrine
It is perhaps too soon to try and discern a distinctive “Modi doctrine.” But the wider arc of foreign and strategic policy is gradually coming into focus. The government’s early initiatives have been...
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Hillary’s Mission Impossible
America’s foreign-policy hawks are once again circling high over their maps of the Middle East. They see several countries where they would like America to strike. Some of the hawks are...
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A Living Legacy
Though (Henry) Kissinger has come under attack from liberal circles—among the more notable assaults are Seymour Hersh’s The Price of Power, Christopher Hitchens’s The Trial of Henry Kissinger and, most...
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India And Its “Fast Power”
While hard power and soft power are necessary attributes of sustainable power projection by nation states, smart and fast power can help nations, big and small, find their way through or adapt to...
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A View From Washington
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s early foreign policy blitz and his emphasis on economic “deliverables” suggests that he is rewriting the nationalists’ script on what will determine India’s power,...
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