No matter how different observers have reacted to the massive dumping of classified documents by WikiLeaks on Sunday, one of the themes garnering the most attention was that of connections between the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Pakistan’s powerful Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
This is a guest post by Charlie Wagner, a research intern at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. When Japan’s asset bubble burst in 1990, Japan’s real estate market – once the world’s most expensive – collapsed.
This post, which originally appeared at The Havana Note, is a guest note by Tom Garofalo, a consultant for the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative.
While much of the news from South Asia in the past few days has dealt with this week’s Kabul conference on Afghanistan’s future, the New York Times published a fascinating piece yesterday on the importance of water as a source of tension between Pakistan and India.
In the wake of Barack Obama’s election, the extent to which he has continued many Bush administration counterterrorism policies has surprised many, especially when looking not only at the continuation and expansion of tactics such as drone strikes, but also at the degree to which the administration has used tools such as the state secrets…
I’m back from Germany, where I was participating in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s Transatlantic Dialogues Program. It was an eye-opening, whirlwind experience.
This is a guest post from Anya Landau French, who directs the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. This post originally appeared at The Havana Note. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, a conservative Democrat from Minnesota, is generally a soft-spoken, easy-going legislator who eschews demagoguery.
Headlining the July/August issue of Foreign Policy magazine is their always-fascinating “Failed States Index” measuring stability around the world. In partnership with Foreign Policy, the New America Foundation will host a discussion TODAY from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm of this year’s index and the causes of this insecurity in different parts of the globe….
On Monday Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, announced the launch of a new counter-terrorism initiative, a hotline for members of radical Islamists groups to call where they can get advice for leaving the group.
The news of former ISAF commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s and his staff’s comments about senior administration officials and the President, followed by McChrystal’s sacking this morning, have sucked up much of the news about Afghanistan in the last few days. But while the war effort faces difficulty and certain questioning as Gen.