It is a dream that will be eventually fulfilled and everybody, including foreign policy practitioners, needs to listen closely to what Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg has to say because the world will be a very different place to live in when all of it is connected by the Internet. Read Here – Wired
Beijing has offered little information about the investigation of several executives from China’s top oil producer, except to accuse them of “severe breaches of discipline,” a phrase often used to invoke bribery and corruption. But the focus on the oil industry itself and specific investigation of two of the four executives adds fuel to a growing sense that […]
Kabul is not kind to drivers. It’s a city still expanding between mountains from which rival warlords used to lob ordnance at one another, and the legacy of those men who once laid waste to what was below remains here, on the streets, in the craters they left behind. Read here – The Atlantic
The United States, by all indications, will soon become a belligerent in Syria’s civil war. The Syrian government‘s alleged use of chemical weapons to kill hundreds crossed a redline that U.S. President Barack Obama claimed a year ago would be the game changer, and the game for Washington, London, and Paris has clearly changed. Yet […]
The government defeat leaves both British policy on Syria, and David‘s Cameron’s own leadership, mired in the deepest uncertainty Read Here – The Telegraph, London
The systemic waste of natural resources in the Gulf is eroding economic resilience to shocks and increasing security risks. The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries now consume more primary energy than the whole of Africa. Yet they have just one-twentieth of that continent’s population. Almost 100% of energy is produced from oil and gas […]
China now has an emerging business class that wants to influence the debate on pollution, economic reform, U.S.-China relations, and broader political change. Read Here – BusinessWeek
As pressing a problem as suicide terrorism is, we still know surprisingly little about the individual-level risk factors that make one family member become a “martyr” and another a doctor, even when both grew up in the same political environment. Read Here – Foreign Affairs
Korea’s real challenge is one of reinvention: to find a new economic model to replace its previous dependence on exports. For years, Koreans buzzed about catching up to the developed world. Now that they largely have, the question is what comes next. If Korea is having the economic equivalent of a midlife crisis, my conversations […]
Post-Iraq skepticism of White House promises is extraordinarily high. Obama must lead an open debate on Syria that helps restore confidence in the public’s control over the use of military force. Read Here – Reuters
