POST-ABBOTTABAD PAK SULKING HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON OBAMA
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View ArticleOP-ED: Occupy Foreign Affairs
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By John Feffer* WASHINGTON, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – It’s not the topic of George Packer’s latest essay that’s particularly surprising. Inequality, he...
View ArticleU.S.-Mexico Border Build-Up Found Excessive
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) – While Republican politicians and other "border hawks" call for ever-tougher measures to secure the...
View ArticleThe Political Drones Get Louder
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View ArticleU.S. Breaks Silence on Bahrain Crackdown
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View ArticleOP-ED: Unfinished Business Awaits Obama’s Second Term
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View ArticleBrazil Emerging as Key Player at U.N.
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View ArticleTough Foreign Policy Challenges for Somalia’s “Iron Lady”
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Abdurrahman Warsameh Nov 20 (IPS) – As little-known politician Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan was sworn in as Somalia’s first female foreign minister and deputy...
View ArticleGaza Assault Shows a New Egypt
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Nov 23 (IPS) – The reaction of post-revolution Egypt to Israel’s weeklong onslaught on the next-door Gaza...
View ArticleOpposition to U.S. Bases Reaches Turning Point
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Nov 25 (IPS) – Okinawa, the largest of a group of 60 sub-tropical islands forming Japan’s southernmost prefecture, has an...
View ArticleASEAN Stumbles Again On South China Sea
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View ArticleAvoiding the Slippery Slope to War with Iran
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View ArticleClose Kyrgyz-Turkish Ties Stall and Sputter
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View ArticleINDIA-CHINA TIES UNDER NEW CHINESE LEADERSHIP
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN China, which already has a new party leadership since the Party Congress in November last, will be having a new State leadership from next month....
View ArticleIt’s All About Israel
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View ArticleThink Tank Urges “More Ambitious” U.S.-Mexican Agenda
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View ArticleObama Administration Reveals Deep Divisions on Syria Policy
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS A resident of Aleppo in the midst of buildings damaged by an airstrike from President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Credit: Zak Brophy/IPS By Samer Araabi...
View ArticleXI JINPING ON SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS
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