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November
2009
Where is a Third World War most likely to be sparked? For at least a decade before World War One began, those most concerned knew that the ongoing arms race was leading to disaster, as did those who sat on the sidelines and watched Germany and Japan build up to World War Two. World policy wonks have taken a long sigh of relief after the Cold War ended some twenty years ago yesterday, but in so doing have been all too lax at identifying– and diffusing– actual “hotspots” that are likely to trigger a global conflict on the scale of the World Wars, or bigger if you consider the nuclear capabilities of the countries involved. Here are three possibilities…
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October
2009
The “comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan” President Obama outlined yesterday was far from anything new in American diplomatic affairs, which is not to say ineffective. Actually, the shift in policy marks a sharp return to diplomatic tactics the U.S. perfected during its expansionist phase in the 19th and early 20th centuries: ‘big stick’ and ‘dollar’ diplomacy. Here is how the two policies worked then and are intended to now…
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15
October
2009
Tensions between the two most populous countries totaling about one third of world inhabitants were ratcheted up a notch this week, with no resolution in sight. Indian Prime Minister Singh strongly objected to China’s new and ongoing commercial projects in Pakistan and the disputed territories it controls in Kashmir. Within a wider context from China’s point of view, this is only one more step towards total domination of Central Asian natural resources and industry, highlighted by China’s monopolies on most such resources in Afghanistan, to NATO’s and the U.S.’s great dismay…
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October
2009
Bringing together scholars, activists, educators and leaders of many top local, national and international organizations, the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) conference starts today at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 8-10, 2009). This year’s topic is “Exploring the Power of Nonviolence,” honoring Gandhi’s 140th anniversary. For live coverage follow @AntonyAdolf on Twitter…
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24
September
2009
“If Brasil can somehow find the key to peaceful, prompt resolution, they will win major plaudits, and many will begin to see Brazil as the new arbiter of hemispheric issues.”…
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8
September
2009
Five years after a breakthrough deal by which the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said farewell to arms, its last remaining primary opponent, the Ulster Defense League (UDA), agreed to do the same by February 2010…
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25
August
2009
The criminal probe announced by US Attorney General Eric Holder into CIA agents who interrogated “inhumanely” is a copout move for the Obama administration, who should have gone after those who ordered and supervised them too.
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August
2009
That the fate of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar is tied to that of a single person is a sure if ironic sign that icons can limit social change in being their catalyst. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted on charges of breaking her house arrest today, and the outcry by world leaders and her own party shows to what extent they overdepend on her as an icon to further their interests…
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6
August
2009
An email from Democratic National Committee Executive Director Jen O’Malley Dillon makes clear the imminent danger mobocracy in America presents to the burgeoning experiments in participatory democracy. The “five facts about the anti-reform mobs” she presents are shocking…
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August
2009
What’s in a term? A presidential term of any other length is just as constitutional when amendments to that effect are passed, now a global trend with momentum. South American and African nations are leading this pack, but even Bill Clinton’s impromptu visit to North Korea points to a presidential impulse for more time in the spotlight…
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