In a time of shooting wars, it is easy to lose sight of wars waiting to happen. This is dangerous, especially for a new US administration with an ample international agenda. Serious attention is required on Nagorno Karabakh, the simmering dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Positive thinking in Poland;
In Iran, playing offense...;
...while thinking defense;
Iran's anti-NMD plan;
Strategic Posture Commission offers modest vision of missile defense
The long arm of Chechen politics;
Another energy move in Eastern Europe
Treatment program to tackle Hepatitis B;
China and Japan: movement on Yasukuni but no budge on Diaoyu
Back in 2007, commentators were sounding the alarm that Pakistan was approaching a precipice. A lot has changed in two years. Pakistan’s problems then—protesters clogging the streets of Islamabad demanding President Musharraf’s resignation, and sporadic Taliban raids on coalition forces in Afghanistan—were but a glimpse of the danger ahead. No one could have imagined the speed and intensity with which the Taliban and their allies have since spread east from their sanctuary in the Hindu Kush mountains to threaten an invasion of the Pakistani capital.