RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: New ‘Archives of Terror’ Unearthed
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS
Friday, October 31, 2008
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Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, Oct 31 (IPS) – The discovery Friday of new archives from the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner is expected to shed new light on the regime that ruled Paraguay from 1954 to 1989.
Identity cards [...]
DRAGON TURNS INTO ROBERT CLIVE
Global Geopolitics Net Sites
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
© Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved.
By Malladi Rama Rao
Sinologists are obsessed these days with Hun Chinese obsession to dominate other nations in their vicinity. Scholars of all hues admit that today’s China is different and yet harp on Mao’s favourite Chinese adage: “If the east wind [...]
Did India have to do the nuclear deal?
Global Geopolitics Net Sites
Thursday, October 16, 2008
© Copyright 2008 Susenjit Guha. All rights reserved.
By Susenjit Guha
Way back in the 1950s and early 1960’s, U.S. media couldn’t really figure out why India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not as comfortable in the United States as he apparently was during his trips to Britain and Western [...]
POLITICS-US: The Return of the Return of History
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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Analysis by Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Georgia last month, many commentators have been quick to proclaim that the war signals ”the return of history”. But attentive [...]
The miscalculation of small nations
Global Geopolitics Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Fred Halliday
The Russia-Georgia war highlights the need for a nuanced understanding of international politics that recognises the autonomy of local agents, says Fred Halliday [...]
Al-Qaeda and the Question of State Sponsorship
Republished on Global Geopoltics Viewpoints
August 24, 2008
By Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D.
International Monitor Institute
Completed August 29, 2002
© Copyright 2002 Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D.
Introduction
Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush declared an open-ended “war on terrorism”. Within a few days, intelligence and law enforcement organizations [...]
RUSSIA, BOSNIA, AND THE NEAR ABROAD
This article is being republished on Global Geopolitics Viewpoints because of its historical interest and relevance to recent events in Georgia.
Eurasia Research Center
1998
© Copyright 1995 Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D.
By Alan F. Fogelquist
Post Doctoral Scholar History Department University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Paper Presented April 19, 1995 at the International Conference on Bosnia-Hercegovina Organized [...]
REVIEW OF SOME LITERATURE ON POST-COMMUNIST – POST-SOVIET ECONOMIC "REFORMS"
REVIEW OF SOME LITERATURE ON POST-COMMUNIST – POST-SOVIET ECONOMIC “REFORMS” AND THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
Republished on Global Geopolitics Viewpoints
August 22, 2008
By Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D.
EurasiaNews Analyst – December 4, 1998
(c) Copyright Alan F. Fogelquist – Eurasia Research Center, 1998
Here I present a quick review of some literature which reveals the complexity and inadequacy [...]
The Rise and Fall of Shining Path
Global Geopolitics Net Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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By Waynee Lucero, Research Associate, COHA.org
In the Beginning:
The Shining Path (Sendero Luminosos) Maoist guerrillas were formed by university professor Abimael Guzman in the late 1960s and were based [...]
CHINA in Hu’s Colours—Part VII and Last
Global Geopolitics Net Thursday, November 01, 2007
Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.saag.org
By B. Raman
Economic and military strength go together. Without economic prosperity, there can be no military strength and without military strength, there can be no economic prosperity.
2. That was, in short, the theme of the [...]
