Tip O'Neill was speaking of elections in America when he famously said, ”œAll politics are local.” After the ”œthumpin'” voters handed Republicans November 7 over the war in Iraq, it was widely commented that instead, …
Lire le texteHow to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans. An old joke that would not be lost on the still new and young president of the US, whose transformative agenda was side-swiped by the explosion …
Lire le texteThe Harper government has adopted an “ambitious, pro-trade plan in large, dynamic, and fast-growing priority markets.” It purports to complete what the government claims has been since 2006 “the most ambitious pro-trade plan in Canada's history.” The …
Lire le texteWhen I argued in the February issue of Policy Options, in “Truth and Consequence: The WikiLeaks Saga,” that the leak of the US cables had beneficial impacts, we hadn't yet seen the report by the …
Lire le texteProposals for a European union have been preoccupying European minds since the Second World War. Remember William Wyler's classic 1953 film Roman Holiday? Princess Anne (Audrey Hepburn in her US debut), heiress to a prominent European …
Lire le texteNo less a personage than Henry Kissinger has said that 2009 would be the year the world finds new ways to manage complex transborder problems that affect us all, by making emerging and important new …
Lire le texteThe slaughter in Syria stains the world's conscience. And yet as the shelling and shooting go on and civilians continue to die or to flee by the thousands, the outside world seems to do little …
Lire le texteTwice in the last century, the United States enjoyed a position of unrivalled power. The first moment occurred at the end of the Second World War and turned out to be brief. Not long after …
Lire le texteFireworks, happy faces and joyous toasts and anthems marked TV coverage around the world February 17 as crowds in Pristina celebrated Kosovo's unilateral dec- laration of independence from Serbia. While the once- autonomous province of …
Lire le texteThe uprising against Moammar Gadhafi has succeeded, at least in displacing the dictator. Though won by Libyans, the victory needed the support of a coalition of outside countries, mostly democracies, to avert humanitarian disaster and …
Lire le texteZimbabwe resonates in Western consciousness like few places on earth. North Americans and Europeans of a certain age rooted for Zimbabweans trying to come out from under the burdens imposed by a Rhodesian regime that …
Lire le texteTehran, 1979: “ALLAH-U-AKBAR!” As many as a million voices yelled from the city's roofs toward the dark night sky, “God is great!” The detested shah had fled a national insurrection now led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, …
Lire le texteThe bad news from Benghazi hit hard at the University of California, Berkeley, where scholars had gathered in September for a conference on the challenges of moving societies from authoritarianism to democracy. A good man who …
Lire le texteOBAMA VICTORY DRIVES GUN SALES... The headline scrolled across the CNN screen the day after the November presidential election, adding an ominous tinge to an aftermath that included a news “report” that hundreds of students at …
Lire le texteIt was the first sunny day at the back end of a New York City winter in 1977. The Swedish ambassador to the UN had given a lunch for delegates working on world food issues …
Lire le texteAnyone who travelled to Moscow at the time of the Soviet Union must remember their awe at the first sight of Red Square. Though the scene had been previewed inside the traveller's unconscious by years of grainy …
Lire le texteOn the morning of April 23, I learned that Boris Yeltsin had died. Memories surged of the four intense and dramatic years my wife and I had spent in Moscow during Boris Nikolayevich's first term …
Lire le texteA decade into the 21st century, and the world of 1999 appears to us through a golden glass of memory like an innocent childhood. When al-Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers, it was obvious that …
Lire le texteIs there such a thing as a North American Community, a specific idea of North America? Ronald Reagan thought so. He made a “North American Accord” part of his 1980 campaign pitch. It wasn't clear …
Lire le texteIt is nine years since US forces swept over Afghanistan in the aftershock of 9/11 to pay back the jihadists of al-Qaeda and put down their compliant Taliban hosts. It has been their longest war in history …
Lire le texteDégage! Dégage! Tunis, January 2011 We haven't seen such spirit here since 1969... The Eagles First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin... Leonard Cohen The usual story...one law for the rich, the other for the poor. Robert Harris The year 2011 could …
Lire le texteThe WikiLeaks release of 250,000 US diplomatic “cables” is an act essentially without precedent. Some commentators have argued that its revelations are resetting the geopolitical landscape. Others scoff that there is so far little in these …
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