Prof. Harvey Sapolsky, legendary former director of the MIT Security Studies program, has taken the plunge into the big bad world of the blogosphere via the British online publication e-International Relations.

(Photo Credit: Army.mil’s Photostream) I am sitting in an overflow room at the Center for a New American Security‘s third annual conference, “Striking A Balance: A New American Security.” Two quick thoughts on the Afghanistan/Pakistan panel: 1.

This is a brief clip of a discussion I had day before yesterday with Ken Ballen, President of Terror Free Tomorrow, and Flynt Leverett, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative at the New America Foundation.

I really love going to London. David Miliband, the UK foreign minister, has been a long time, excellent, committed blogger — and this is one of many things that draws me to London.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy (This is the video clip of my discussion with Keith Olbermann about the possible and likely impact President Obama’s speech is having on Middle East politics.

(Credit: Siavush’s photostream) TERROR FREE TOMORROW/NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION IRAN PRE-ELECTION POLL RESULTS REPORT CLICK HERE FOR pdf OF REPORT. EMBARGOED UNTIL 12:15 PM EST Ahmadinejad Front Runner in Upcoming Presidential Elections Iranians Continue to Back Compromise and Better Relations with US and West.

Politico‘s Carol Lee wrote an interesting profile of Obama foreign policy speech writer Ben Rhodes on May 18th, 2009. But then in the German publication, Stern, an article written by Von Niels Kruse which references Rhodes and makes strikingly similar comments as Carol Lee’s piece was published on June 3rd, 2009.

Though there is an outright war going on between the central government of Pakistan and the Taliban, there is also a PR battle being waged to see who will win the devotion of the Pakistani majority.

U.S.-Russia Relations Since September 11, 2001 on Dipity. I thought I’d share this timeline of U.S.-Russian relations over the past eight years that I put together for some research I am doing related to the New America Foundation‘s new Great Powers Initiative.

Over the past six months, a number of analysts have attempted to dispense with the facile analogy of the Iraq surge to the Afghan surge and dissuade policymakers from grafting the success of Iraq on to US strategy in Afghanistan.