There is widely accepted (though largely unexamined) conventional wisdom in US national security circles which holds that our military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan are serving to stabilize the Pakistani state. Or, as it is more commonly construed, that the withdrawal of a large portion of our armed forces, and recalibration of our strategic objectives, would destabilize Pakistan and, as a [...]
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Yesterday saw new violence in Cairo’s Tahrir Square: “Clashes between Egyptian security forces and more than 5,000 protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square have left more than 1,036 people injured, according to witnesses and medical officials. “Tahrir Square, the epicentre of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, was sealed off early on Wednesday [...] Glenn Greenwald argues that these considerations are the key to the American involvement in Libya: “By November 2007, a State Department cable noted ‘growing evidence of Libyan resource nationalism.’ It noted that in his 2006 speech marking the founding of his regime, Gaddafi said: ‘Oil companies are controlled by foreigners who have made millions [...] Gregory Gause’s The International Relations of the Persian Gulf provides an excellent overview of its subject over the past 40 years since the British withdrawal, while providing both interesting unifying themes and well-supported arguments about several controversial issues. Gause views the Gulf states bordering the Gulf as forming a “regional security complex,” meaning that [...] Turkish politicians clearly feel that accusing opponents of being pro-Israel is a winning tactic: “Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, used a campaign speech in Istanbul on Sunday to slam opponents for failing to stand up to what he sees as Israeli bullying. Mr Erdogan is a religiously conservative Muslim known for his outspoken [...] The Christian Science Monitor calls attention to territorial disputes in the South China Sea: “Nearly a year after the US stepped into a simmering dispute between China and smaller countries in the region over potentially oil-rich islands in the South China Sea, tensions are rising again… “Since March, both Vietnam and the Philippines have [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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