The Proliferation Security Initiative: A Challenge Too Narrow
Look for the Bush administration to push its “Proliferation Security Initiative” (PSI) during the president’s October trip to Asia.
Threading the Needle: UN Resolution 1511 and the Iraqi Occupation
UN Security Council Resolution 1511 is highly unlikely to secure any goals it was advertised to solve.
A Fig Leaf to Cover Occupation
The new Security Council resolution does nothing to change the fundamental problems of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
A New Beginning for WTO After Cancun
Cancun could lead to trade talks that actually bring about fair trade, and the benefits to both the developing and the developed world that have long been promised.
A Story of Two Speeches: Kofi Annan and George W. Bush
The sound of silence is often deafening when statesmen speak, but in the case of George. W. Bush it is the deafness that is almost as stunning.
In Afghanistan, U.S. Replaces One Terrorist State with Another
“If you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you’re just as guilty as the terrorists. And the Taliban found out what we meant,” U.S. President George W. Bush told military personnel in Fort Stewart, Ga., on Sept. 12.
Why Saddam Didn’t Come Clean
Information emerging from the intelligence community indicates that the Iraq Survey Team looking for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq is coming up empty.
Bush Administration Foreign Policy Team in Disarray
As the Washington, DC area recovers from effects of Hurricane Isabel, President George W. Bush keeps trying to divert the potential “perfect storm” forming from the combination of the constant stream of bad news coming out of the Middle East and growing d
Are Pressures from the U.S., India, and Israel Too Much for Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program to Withstand?
Pakistan’s national defense strategy centers on protecting the country’s nuclear weapons capability from a threat by one or more of three states that are currently working very closely – the United States, India and Israel.
To Occupy or UNoccupy?
It is a measure of how stark the impinging reality is that Washington even considered returning to the UN for yet another new and stronger resolution.
Control of Oil Revenues
While widespread ransacking was happening in Iraq after Baghdad fell, the U.S. moved swiftly to secure the country’s oil facilities.
Pentagon Office Base for Neoconservative Network Manipulating Iraq Intelligence
An ad hoc office under U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as the key base for an informal network of mostly neoconservative political appointees that circumvented normal interagency channels to lead the push for