What’s the Big Idea?
A forthcoming event in Delhi that was long in the works, built upon a structural foundation laid over several years, and expected to draw considerable international attention may instead disappoint...
View ArticleThe price of 9/11
NEW YORK – The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by Al Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush’s...
View ArticleAmerica: Ten years after 9/11
When the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 A.M. on September 11, 2001, it looked, from the 39th floor of a Rockefeller Center office building, like a small single flight went off course....
View ArticleArab Spring to Wahabbi Winter
Ten years on, and two trillion dollars and counting, is the world a safer place for the NATO partners? The security of NATO members has been at the core of actions taken by its components – principally...
View ArticleSevere Challenges Pounding U.S. Primacy
BRUSSELS (IDN) – When the planes hit the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, Matthew Goodwin was in a classroom in Detroit listening to a lecture on the Vietnam War. Now Associate Fellow at...
View ArticleU.S. elections: a hand-to-hand fight
The most important election in the world, the U.S. election, is in a dead heat with incumbent President Obama with a statistically insignificant lead of 1% or 2% depending on which polls are...
View ArticleA choice without a difference
As the campaigns for the Presidential election in the U.S. wind down, the media and the international community are beginning to pay attention to the almost equally important elections for the House...
View ArticleGiving up GWOT
The Global War on Terrorism, condensed to the ugly acronym GWOT, has been officially given up in the U.S. – the country that not too long ago had coined the term and propounded the concept. This does...
View ArticleIndia-U.S. revive lingering ties
The fourth round of the India-U.S. Strategic Dialogue to be held June 23-24 in New Delhi offers a good opportunity to leaders on both sides to clear the cobwebs and give a strong political direction to...
View ArticleA new blueprint for China
The serial failure by two Democratic presidents of the U.S. – Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – to forge an alliance with India that is acceptable to both sides has given an opening for an India-China...
View ArticleWhy Washington should focus on Asia
The United States is in the early stages of a substantial national project: reorienting its foreign policy to commit greater attention and resources to the Asia-Pacific region. This reformulation of...
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