30 Terrorist Plots Foiled: How the System Worked
By Jena Baker McNeill , James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. and Jessica ZuckermanAbstract: In 2009 alone, U.S. authorities foiled at least six terrorist plots against the United States. Since September 11, 2001, at least 30 planned terrorist attacks have been foiled, all but two of them prevented by law e...
Read MoreUN To Review Non-Proliferation Efforts
By Andrei FedyashinThe international community will meet in New York for the eighth UN Review Conference on the NPT from May 3-28, 2010, to assess the treaty's implementation.Held every five years since the Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in 1968 and became international law in 1970,...
Read MoreGeorgia’s NATO dream
Georgia’s bid for NATO membership looks to be on indefinite hold. Unless Georgia adopts a new approach, its chances for accession will remain dim.Tbilisi | If there was ever any doubt of the NATO membership process being a political exercise, one needn’t look further than the Alliance’s decisi...
Read MoreImpending Crisis In Nepal
By Nihar NayakA major crisis seems to be brewing in Nepal. The UCPN-Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias ‘Prachanda’ said on April 26 that his party would organize a general strike for "peace and constitution" on May 1 and launch an indefinite nationwide general strike from May 2, 2010. Whil...
Read MoreRussian Web Site Highlights Resistance In Baltics, Ukraine And Western Belarus
A new Russian website intended to ensure no one forgets what it calls “the victims of nationalist terror in the Western regions of the USSR” unintentionally calls attention to the strength of resistance to the imposition of Soviet power in the Baltic states, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus after...
Read MoreU.S. Consolidates Military Network In Asia-Pacific Region
The United States has six naval fleets and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups patrolling the world's oceans and seas. The U.S. Navy is as large as the world's next thirteen biggest navies combined .Washington has as many aircraft carriers as all other nations together. Russia has one; China h...
Read MoreBrussels pushes for electric cars
The European Commission has approved a new strategy to promote clean and energy-efficient vehicles in the EU, primarily focusing on the role of electric cars rather than biofuel-powered vehicles.
In a communication published today (28 April), the Commission stresses that it does not favour any part...
Read MoreThe Way Forward? Grassroots Diplomacy In The Southern Balkans
By Spyros SofosTwo decades after the onset of Yugoslavia’s disintegration, the aftershocks are still affecting the Balkans. Kosova/o’s independence declaration, the ensuing Serbian ire and the reluctance of Greece to recognise it, the new round of inconclusive talks between Macedonia and Greece ...
Read MoreThe ICC’s Role In Sudan: Peace Versus Justice
By Mayank BubnaThe ICC's approach to the Sudan crisis has been flawed because it failed to acknowledge the political implications of its rulings. It has only targeted the ruling elites of the Sudanese government, which poses a problem because these same elite perceive such indictments not as leg...
Read MorePoland: Will Jaroslaw Succeed Lech Kaczynski?
By Anna ChernovaApparently Lech Kaczynski always wanted his twin brother Jaroslaw to be president of Poland. At least, this is what the political supporters of the Kaczynski brothers have been saying following Lech's death in a plane crash outside Smolensk and Jaroslaw's nomination as his party'...
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