Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By R. S. Kalha* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint http://www.indepthnews.net/ President Barrack Obama has very skilfully reaped the political benefits of ordering a ‘technical’ withdrawal of troops from Iraq and ending the U.S. mission there, while retaining the substance of the U.S. posture and presence and, in fact, immeasurably strengthening it. [...]
India’s Fragile Security Ten Years After 9/11 Attacks
September 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Neelam Deo and Akshay Mathur* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint MUMBAI (IDN) – On September 12, 2001, a day after 9/11, the Times of India published a story titled, ‘India hopes US will now pressurise Pak’. At the time, this relayed a common national sentiment – India may finally get [...]
EXPLOSION IN OSLO
July 22, 2011 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 732 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, a large bomb blast has hit near government headquarters in the Norwegian capital Oslo, killing at least one person. The offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg were damaged extensively, but he was described by a government spokeswoman [...]
MUMBAI: EROSION OF FAITH IN SECURITY
July 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN,Camp Vizag The Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh’s reported decision to visit Mumbai in the wake of the new series of orchestrated and timed explosions on July 13 reflects his embarrassment and concern over the blasts. 3.The embarrassment arises from the continuing deficiencies in our counter-terrorism capability even after the much [...]
What Is Sadr’s Game on Future U.S. Troop Presence?
July 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) – The big question looming over U.S.-Iraqi negotiations on a U.S. military presence after 2011 is what game Shi’a leader Moqtada al-Sadr is playing on the issue. U.S. officials regard Sadr as still resisting the U.S. military presence illegally and [...]
Military Option for Iran Far From Prudent
July 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Military Option for Iran Far From Prudent The writer | Credit: ACA By Greg Thielmann* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Neither sanctions, cyber sabotage, nor off-and-on multilateral diplomacy has yet convinced the government of Iran to end its pursuit of activities that could give it [...]
GUATEMALA: Women-Only Buses Against Sexual Harassment
June 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – "We are all safer here; it’s great because this way there are no men groping you," Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for women, a service against sexual harassment that is [...]
POST-ABBOTTABAD PAK SULKING HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON OBAMA
June 23, 2011 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 729 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By B.Raman Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have had no impact on President Barack Obama’s counter-sanctuary emphasis in his counter-terrorism strategy. 2. It was this counter-sanctuary emphasis that enabled the successful extermination of Osama bin Laden on May 2,2011, by US naval [...]
MIDEAST: When a Spy Speaks
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – The man who, for the last eight years, embodied Israel’s secret operations and had a penchant for the use of forged documents by his spies has been ordered by his former boss to relinquish his own diplomatic passport. According [...]
Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Abukar Arman The worst thing that could happen to Somalia at this critical juncture—in its recovery from two decades of bloodshed and chaos— is to disrupt the momentum of security improvement and to derail the reformation process lead by Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his cabinet. And that [...]
