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Fighting back against pirates

culpering355 wrote 2 days ago: Military.com: posted CNN video of security companies and new defense mechanisms set to aggressively … more →

Tags: Security, military, Crime, hijacking, Piracy, Somalia, Defense, pirates, maritime

I Smell a Rat!11 comments

tumwijuke wrote 3 days ago: Runaway ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra has used new name in his passports issued by some African countries … more →

Tags: Ugandan ish and things I can't explain

Terrorism, Interstate War, and Perceptions of Threat

Thomas wrote 1 week ago: Since 9/11, terrorism receives much attention in both the scholarly literature and the public discou … more →

Tags: Terrorism

3.5 million paid to Somali hijackers of Spanish ship

culpering355 wrote 1 week ago: Al Jazeera reports that pirates have freed a Spanish ship hijacked six weeks ago in the Indian ocean … more →

Tags: Crime, Hijacker, hijacking, maritime, maritime law, News, Piracy, pirates, Somalia

President Obama Goes to Asia 2 comments

gpmanson3 wrote 1 week ago: By G.P. Manson The President departed on Thursday for a nine day trip to East Asia, including stops … more →

Tags: World, East and South Asia, North Korea, Barack Obama, China, Free Trade, Hilary Clinton, Singapore, Japan

Let's Hop off the China Fear Express1 comment

Global Wonk wrote 1 week ago: GlobalWonk Enters Forbidden City President Obama’s trip to China has provided a platform from … more →

Tags: China, No New Cold War, U.S./China Relations, Waging Peace, china's peaceful rise, Cold War II, fear monger, Foreign Policy, Global

The Chinese Navy, Great Power Aspirations, and Domestic Instability

Thomas wrote 2 weeks ago: I have written quite extensively about China on this blog. In sum, I highlight that China’s ri … more →

Tags: Armed forces, China, neoclassical realism

Korean Naval Skirmish: What's the Objective?

B Gourley wrote 2 weeks ago: RoK Navy Ships Like Those Involved in Skirmish The navies of North and South Korea engaged in a brie … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, Current Events, DPRK, International Relations, Kim Jong-Il, military, national security, Navy, News

GlobalWonk's Video Introduction

Global Wonk wrote 2 weeks ago: Jim Miller, GlobalWonk Jim Miller has posted the GlobalWonk Introduction video at YouTube. Please cl … more →

Tags: China, china's peaceful rise, Cold War, Cold War II, DPRK, Foreign Policy, Global, globalwonk, Kim Jong-Il

Engaging the Junta: Strategic Diplomacy or Wasted Breath?

gpmanson3 wrote 2 weeks ago: By G.P. Manson This week in Myanmar (formerly Burma), Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian an … more →

Tags: World, East and South Asia, China, constructive engagement, trade sanctions, Burma, Myanmar, Saffron Revolution, Aung San Suu Kyi

It's Just a Shot Away - This Week in (In)Security

dptrombly wrote 2 weeks ago: Presidents Medvedev (Russia) and Lukashenko (Belarus), courtesy armybase.us As Bono builds a new Ber … more →

Tags: middle east, Russia

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Rice Cutgrass wrote 3 weeks ago: Friends,   Rice Cutgrass, as a legal trade entity, supports waterboarding as a form of intellig … more →

Tags: waterboarding, Torture, intelligence-gathering, Interrogation, Terrorism, International Terrorism, War-on-terror, Bush administration, conservatism

China's New Rules: No More Nice Hegemon 2 comments

gpmanson3 wrote 1 month ago: By G.P. Manson This week in Cha-am, Thailand, the leaders of the ten ASEAN nations and their counter … more →

Tags: World, East and South Asia, Obama Administration, Great power rivalry, realpolitik, China, Dalai Lama, Beijing, ASEAN

The Anti-Piracy Naval Coalition…A Sign of Things to Come?2 comments

gpmanson3 wrote 1 month ago: By G.P. Manson The nearly 20-year old Somali Civil War, which has reduced the central government’s c … more →

Tags: Sub saharan Africa, World, Somalia, Piracy, Combined Task Force 150, al-Shabaab, global trade, Globalization, pirate ransom

Iran's Nuclear Program: A Paper Tiger?

Dan Rozenson wrote 1 month ago: Potentially groundbreaking news regarding the Iranian nuclear program: It’s in much worse shap … more →

Tags: Iran, intelligence, Iranian Nuclear program

Explaining the Biden Shift on AfPak1 comment

Dan Rozenson wrote 1 month ago: Joe Biden’s role as in-house skeptic of the US mission in Afghanistan seems to be the topic du … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Joe Biden

North Korean Nuclear Rapprochement: The Current Installment of an Escalating Cycle

gpmanson3 wrote 1 month ago: This week the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and North Korea’s “Great Leader” Kim Jong-il met in Pyonyan … more →

Tags: World, East and South Asia, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, ICBMs, Kim Jong-Il, Wen Jiabao, Bill Clinton, Nuclear Proliferation

President Obama Setting the Stage for Taliban Victory

orenlitwin wrote 1 month ago: By Oren Litwin While we can all remember Senator Obama’s fire-breathing calls for victory in t … more →

Tags: Middle East and North Africa, Freedom, American Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, War, Barack Obama, al-Qaeda

Is the Afghan War Actually the Pakistani War?3 comments

Dan Rozenson wrote 1 month ago: Today I attended the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s hearing on Afghanistan. It was entit … more →

Tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Taliban


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