By Brent Scowcroft The Australian ARE we pursuing the right strategy to ensure that Iran (or, for that matter, any other aspirant nuclear power) does not cross the threshold to join the ranks of nuclear weapons states?…more
By Niall Ferguson Daily Telegraph On arriving at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport on Friday (no doubt humming Love Me Do), the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was greeted with roughly equal quantities of bouquets and brick-bats…more
By Guy Dinmore & Demetri Sevastopulo & Hubert Wetzel Financial Times Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, has urged the Bush administration to hold direct talks with Iran over its nuclear programme…more
By Sam Nunn The Washington Post In a setback for the administration’s efforts to win approval of a landmark nuclear pact with India, former senator Sam Nunn said yesterday that he has serious concerns the deal would harm the “United States’ vital interest” in preventing nuclear proliferation and urged Congress to set conditions for its […]
Francis Fukuyama The Guardian Many opponents of the Iraq war both in the US and Europe have felt a not-so-secret sense of schadenfreude at the developing chaos in Iraq…more