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Congress Viewed from Across the Pond

By James Joyner

"Viewed from across the pond, the U.S. Congress seems at best incompetent and at worst a joke," Alex Massie argues. And that perception is not without consequence.

Davos 2010: New Year, Same Mission (Saving the World)

By James Joyner

The 40th World Economic Forum kicked off in Davos today, with a modest agenda to "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild." As Spiegel‘s Anne Seith notes, Klaus Schwab, the forum’s German founder, has always been decidedly ambitious and has by all accounts been successful as a gathering (although not so much at […]

Governance in the U.S. and UK

By Harlan Ullman

One of the many dilemmas in politics is finding the balance between winning elections and providing good governance.

Transnistria Remains the Only Really “Frozen” Conflict

By Vladimir Socor

in 2008, Russia “unfroze” the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia through outright war and occupation of these Georgian territories. In the latter part of 2009, the United States and Russia each accelerated negotiations on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, with Washington and Moscow each pressing for some kind of quick results.

America’s Decline, Europe’s Anxiety

By James Joyner

Futurist Joel Kotkin is swimming against the recent American decline tide in forecasting a world where China will still trail the United States as an economic power in 2050.  Then again, as Matthew Yglesias points out, Kotkin thinks previous predictions of European preeminence proved "staggeringly off the mark," even though the combined EU economy is […]

Bombing Al Qaeda

By Don Snow

The contest against Al Qaeda (the “war on terror”) has moved to Yemen, where a franchise of the original organization, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has set up shop and is organizing and dispatching terrorist missions against the United States (Ft. Hood, the Christmas underwear bomber) and apparently Great Britain

Bangladesh’s India Charm Offensive

By Zafar Sobhan

American Security Attitudes Driving Policy

By Derek Reveron

The  results of the latest Pew-CFR quadrennial survey of public and elite attitudes on foreign policy are startling not only for the gap between public and elite attitudes on international security, but also for the types of concerns held by the average American. Simply, Americans feel scared, wary, and alone.

America’s Global Fatigue

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The 9.2 magnitude earthquake that triggered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami claimed some 230,000 lives in 13 countries. But the Port-au-Prince 7.0 quake may exceed that toll in one small country.