The recent election of Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan surprised even the most cynical of political analysts tracking the politics of the Pakistan-Afghanistan region. Let us remember that during his last tenor as Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif tried to marginalized the… Read More ›
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Africa: New Challenges for US Foreign and Strategic Policy
The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University has issued a very interesting perspective on future challenges for US foreign and strategic policy, challenging President Obama’s pivot to Asia and casting the spotlight on Africa. Report is attached in… Read More ›
Obama’s Silent War: US Drone Strikes Cause Disproportionate Civilian Collateral Kills in Pakistan
A joint Stanford/NY University study on the human costs of President Obama’s drone wars in the fight to eliminate terrorism has found that only 2% of strikes resulted in the successful targeting of high-level terrorist targets but that a much… Read More ›
Obama’s Foreign and Strategic Policy
When Barak Hussain Obama came to power in 2008, he was elected on the hopes, struggles and aspirations of generations of Americans, that looked to him to introduce a more progressive US approach in foreign and strategic relations, and perhaps… Read More ›
US, Israel and Iran: Opportunities and Black Holes
Pressure is mounting in global discourse between Iran and Israel, as the former grapples with hosting international (Non-Align Movement) conferences and fatal earthquakes, while the latter vacillates between seriously considering unilateral strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and securing their borders… Read More ›
US Foreign and Strategic Policy Towards Africa
When President Bill Clinton signed the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act on 18 May 2000, his initiative was greeted with a significant amount of skepticism. Yet big business and particularly resource exploration corporations and the oil industry got behind the… Read More ›
US Foreign Policy on Middle East: An Assessment
In his first few months in office, President Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize. During the same period, President Obama announced that the US would be accelerating the timetable for pullout from Iraq and then Afghanistan. He followed through… Read More ›
Syria: UN mission chief warns of impact of growing violence on observer activities
Syria: UN mission chief warns of impact of growing violence on observer activities. In fast moving news, it appears the Head of the UN verification mission in Syria General Robert Mood has finally declared that the UN monitors are unable… Read More ›
Options on Syria: International Conference Option Should Include Iran and Syria in Parallel Forum
In the face of non-compliance with the Annan Peace Plan, the International Community is reduced to considering two alternatives: regime transition of Al-Assad out of power and convening an international conference on Syria as a means of coordinating and increasing… Read More ›
Regional and International Interest Groups Step up Support for Their Candidates In the Egyptian Presidential Race
The article by AFP reproduced below is the tip of the iceberg! The truth is that each of the presidential candidates is supported politically and financially by different countries, international constituencies and power brokers. The four candidates, drawing from the… Read More ›
Implications of Obama’s new Longer-term Strategic Partnership Agreement with Afghanistan
Today, on the anniversary of the mission that eliminated Osama bin Laden across the border in Pakistan, President Obama has flown to Afghanistan to sign the much-anticipated longer-term Strategic Cooperation Agreement. As I write, President Obama is personally finalizing details… Read More ›
US-Pakistan Relations: Realistic Future Options Defined by Necessity? + Responses to Mr. Rudd
The US and Pakistan are like star-crossed lovers that have great sex when they eventually get together but the path to pleasure is so strewn with geopolitical and strategic land mines, that sex is rare! Very rare! Yet like… Read More ›
Hanan Ashrawi, Executive Committee Member, PLO Talks About the Status of Peace Negotiations between Israel and Palestine
Today I attended a discussion at IPI (New York) with Hanan Ashrawi who used to a member of the negotiation team at Camp David. She is a formidable speaker and updated us on her views concerning the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process…. Read More ›
