Schröder faults U.S. on missile shield
By Reuters DRESDEN: U.S. plans to build a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic are dangerous and absurd, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said Sunday….more
Year: 2007
U.S. and Iran call Iraqi conference a ‘first step’
By Brian Knowlton WASHINGTON: Both U.S. and Iranian diplomats Sunday cautiously welcomed as an important “first step” the results of the regional meeting in Baghdad that brought a rare face-to-face encounter between the two sides…more
Not two countries, but one: Chimerica
By Niall Ferguson Chaos theory proposes that, by merely flapping its wings in the Amazonian jungle, a single butterfly can cause a hurricane in the Home Counties. That is because of the extraordinary complexity of the global climatic system: one tiny bit of turbulence in darkest Brazil can, under the right circumstances, trigger a kind […]
The Rewards of a Larger NATO
By Ronald Asmus Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose speech at the Munich security conference on Feb. 10 has caused some to revive their arguments against enlarging NATO. The policy was wrongheaded because it produced the nationalist policies that emanate from Moscow today, they say. NATO expansion was a bad idea, they argue, because it enraged […]
Russian-U.S. ties hit new low
By Steven Lee Myers International Herald Tribune MOSCOW: The good news about President Vladimir Putin’s acerbic assault on American foreign policy in Munich last weekend is that the bad old days of global ideological confrontation will probably remain in the dustbin of history. The bad news is that Cold War II could be just as […]