Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 269
New movement in "
New Europe"
...;
...amid intransigence in Istanbul;
A nuclear football of a different sort;
Zero-sum in South Asia
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Pakistan Veers From The Taliban
Change is afoot in Pakistan. Evidence was on display in early February, with the capture of the Afghan Taliban’s number two commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in a joint operation by the CIA and Pakistani intelligence. The arrest of Baradar, who had been operating with relative impunity in Pakistan for years, was met with elation in Washington, where officials have been fruitlessly pressing the Pakistanis to crack down on the Afghan Taliban since 2001.
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1661
One step forward, one step back in Chechnya;
Repopulating the Far East
China Reform Monitor: No. 809
India, China struggle for influence in neighborhood;
Russia-China trade drops precipitously in 2009
A New Sheriff At The U.N.
If it's true that in politics you are judged by the caliber of your enemies, Yukiya Amano is off to a stellar start. The 62-year-old Japanese technocrat has only been at the helm of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for two months, but he is already exceedingly unpopular with the Iranian regime.