Update as of 8/24: Legal Questions Remain for Freed Scholar in Iran (NYT). New York Times Oped by Camelia Entekhabifard, Fooled by Winds of Reform.
Haleh Esfandiari, one of three Americans imprisoned in Iran, has been released on bail, although charges are still pending and and there are new concerns about her health and if [...]
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Obama’s Counter-terrorism Strategy
Barack Obama gave a speech today at the Wilson Center on counterterrorism, which was covered by AP and blogged by WaPo’s The Trail , NYT Caucus.
Update as of 2:52 PST: see analysis by US News, ABC, Chicago Trib, and other outside experts on WaPo.
Related oped posted 8/21/07: Barnett: To rejoin world, U.S. must rejoin conversation.
Roundup of Nuclear News
CAP’s Joseph Cirincione and KSG’s Uri Leventer have a new piece out on the five major nuclear threats.
WaPo is covering the India-US nuclear deal and the Economist analyzes the underlying nuclear-power politics.
In related news, ASEAN is forming its own nuclear safety watchdog and earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported (PDF) on [...]
Reexamining Baker-Hamilton
An interesting trio of articles about the Iraq Study Group:
Senators Alexander and Salazar are leading the effort to reexamine Baker-Hamilton’s recommendations. Leader Reid criticized the proposal, but Mr. Hamilton himself praised the legislation, noting that “The [ISG] report is not out of date.”
Gen. Hayden told the group in November 2006 that “the inability of [...]
RS Morning Brief, 7/15/07
A roundup of the day’s national and international security news: Pakistan ends truce with tribal leaders; Mahdi army becomes enemy #1 in Western Baghdad; Russia pulls out of treaty; DHS loses senior leaders;
London Police Defuse Car Bomb(s)
One vehicle was found this morning in London’s theater district and contained canisters of nails and gas. A second suspicious car remains under investigation near Hyde Park. The CT Blog has thorough and ongoing coverage, in addition to the front page stories in the Times and Post.
Seeking Refuge and a Refugee Strategy
Today, the UN announced a 14% rise in refugees from last year — the highest since 2002. This was due in large part to significant growth in the number of Iraqi refugees. By some estimates,
RS Morning Brief, 6/20/07
A roundup of the day’s national and international security news: U.S. makes suprise visit in Pyongyang; Blair may become Mideast envoy; Six detainees released; Chertoff says the enemy is in Pakistan; Fred Thompson gives foreign policy speech; Foreign Service affected by wars:
Russia’s Nuclear Renaissance
At first, it seemed like a good week for nonproliferation: the U.S. is taking steps to restart talks with North Korea and Pakistan has agreed to participate in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (although its military “facilities and activities” are not covered). But NYT’s business section offers a less glowing [...]
RS Morning Brief, 6/13/2007
A roundup of the day’s national and international security news: Negroponte pressures Maliki; Iraq’s Sunni insurgents offer Al Qaeda a truce; Turkish Premier and Kurds de-escalate; State Department lists new human traffickers; Bush not pick pocketed in Albania.
RS Morning Brief, 6/4/2025
A roundup of the day’s national and international security news: Dems spar over Iraq, worrisome assessment of Baghdad security, Pakistan and China increase censorship, and Putin talks tough.
The Warm-Up Act on Global Warming
With Chancellor Merkel headlining this week’s G8 meeting, President Bush moved to stage left for a warm-up act on global warming. His volte-face on climate change encountered a chilly reception: Speaker Pelosi called it a “profound disappointment,” and many scientists expressed skepticism due to Bush’s “legacy of stalling, back-pedaling and undermining of international talks.” Yet [...]
Talking the Talk with Tehran
After avoiding Secretary Rice in Egypt last week, Iran’s leaders accepted historic talks with the U.S. about Iraqi security…and then promptly started to sabotage them.
Venezuela Withdraws from IMF and World Bank
Today, Venezuela decided to leave the IMF and World Bank (LA Times) and nationalized the last of its private oil fields (WaPo). There are essentially three ways to interpret this development:
as the culmination of Chavez’s oil-fueled, leftist-cum-Maoist push and as an anti-Western gesture, with the most serious fallout being limited to Latin America. [...]