Category Policy & Politics

Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, Policy & Politics

Making Biography in Foreign Policy: Elections 2012

March 25, 2012

This year’s slew of elections and other leadership selection processes will see new heads of state in many capitals around the world. Leadership matters—as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “there is properly no history, only biography….” Presidential elections have already…

Asia Pacific, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Imran Khan and Kashmir

March 2, 2012

Today, Imran Khan is doing in Pakistan what Barack Obama did in the United States in 2008. Despite his lack of experience in governance, Khan has created quite a buzz, and is vying for the country’s top job.

Europe, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

The Big Chill: Priorities & Realities for a Modern NATO

February 23, 2012

The final installment of a three-part series on NATO by Nic Wondra. See the first and second articles. A different NATO might restore a solidarity lost with the invasion of Iraq. The alliance’s moral credibility and the credible threat of hard power deployment are…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

NATO on the Rocks? Stirred, Not Shaken

February 2, 2012

The first in a three part series by Nic Wondra on NATO and its future role in security