Posts Tagged ‘Governance’
Persistent Engagement: The Obama Doctrine of Neo-Imperialism in Execution
Special Warfare | May-June 2010 (Vol. 23, Issue 3) PERSISTENT ENGAGEMENT Civil Military Support Elements Operating in CENTCOM By Maj. Ross F. Lightsey, Sr. In ongoing irregular conflicts, the civil-military support element, or CMSE, is a unique resource that provides military commanders and United States ambassadors in various regions and [...]
Geopolitics, Nationalism and Dual Citizenship
Stratfor | By George Friedman | 20 July 2010 Geopolitics is central to STRATFOR’s methodology, providing the framework upon which we study the world. The foundation of geopolitics in our time is the study of the nation-state, and fundamental to this is the question of the relationship of the individual to the nation-state. Changes in the [...]
C. Christine Fair: The Taliban are good at providing justice
You Tube | 10 December 2009 At a hearing, held on 9 December 2009, of the U.S. Congress OGR Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Professor C. Christine Fair, of the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. paid an important if unusual [...]
Iran calls for democracy, not fascism, at the world level
Reuters | By Robert Evans | 19 July 2010 Iran calls for world body free of big power control (Reuters) - Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more powerful global body free of big-power domination. Speaking to an audience [...]
Pakistan Governed by Tax Evaders
New York Times | By Sabrina Tavernise | 18 July 2010 Pakistan’s Elite Pay Few Taxes, Widening Gap ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Much of Pakistan’s capital city looks like a rich Los Angeles suburb. Shiny sport utility vehicles purr down gated driveways. Elegant multistory homes are tended by servants. Laundry is never hung out to dry. But [...]
The Caliphate of Elizabeth Regina
Afpakwar | By Arshad Zaman | 15 July 2010 A host of clichés on law and governance—religion has no place in politics, church and state must be separate, etc.—adorn the Op-Ed columns of newspapers. They are said to be based on the English example, among others. England is ruled today by “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the [...]
Dead End for Pakistan
The News | By Roedad Khan | 29 June 2010 Heading for the dead end Our moment of truth has arrived. For Pakistan the hour has struck. To borrow the prophetic words of Dostoevsky, "I have a presentiment of sorts that the lots are drawn and accounts may have to be settled far sooner than one might imagine in one's wildest dreams". Terror is [...]
Corruption: The Hole in the Whole of Government (WOG) Approach
abc News | By Aamer Madhani | 20 June 2010 U.S. Troops, Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan Suspected of Corruption Officers Charged With Theft, Bribery in Oversees Reconstruction Projects The U.S. government, which is pressing Iraqi and Afghan leaders to get tough on internal corruption, is doing the same in its ranks. Cases of [...]
On Consensual Islam
The News | By Arshad Zaman | 20 June 2010 There is a quality to Ayaz Amir's columns--wise, without being pretentious, with a seriousness wrapped in laughter--that can only be admired. Yet in the seductive laughter of his columns there can on rare occasions be ideas and recommendations that can provide fodder to a demagogue. In a [...]
Putin on Western Democracy, the Gaza Flotilla, and Iran
Pravda.ru | 11 June 2010 Putin: Western Model of Democracy Doesn't Exist Vladimir Putin gave a traditional interview to French journalists prior to his visit to Paris. In the interview, the chairman of the Russian government said that the Western model of democracy does not exist per se. Below you can read several most intersecting [...]
