Friday, November 2

Are you a democracy advocate or a splittist wolf?

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"Naturally, crows are wicked. They have the habit of snatching. They usually caw loudly in the sky if one of them is captured. Likewise...
Thursday, November 1

Has Pakistan given up its membership in the Axis of Evil? Can a tiger change its stripes?

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I received this yesterday from the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland: A WorldPublicOpinion.org poll f...
Wednesday, October 31

North Korea: starting a long journey in from the cold, or just another feint?

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From Chosunilbo today: New tones of engagement with the international community are emerging from North Korea's official and quasi-offi...
Tuesday, October 30

Pundita has not been kidnapped by aliens

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"Pundita! Where are you? Are you okay? You always put up little notes when you're away but there's no note! Are the dark forces...
Friday, October 26

The Devil doesn't wear Prada

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"Pundita, dear, tell me Ping! was your Halloween essay, else I will be scared out of my wits that it contained foreign policy advice. ...
Thursday, October 25

Ping!

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Whereupon the half angel Gabriel knocks John Constantine flat on his back and, placing her foot on his neck, lectures him on why she is unle...
Tuesday, October 23

Crisis in Turkey

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Dave Schuler is keeping his "Glittering Eye" on Turkey; his latest post outlines proposals for defusing the situation with the PKK...

Crying "Fire!" in a crowded world: California wildfires

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2002 Fire Wars narrator: "What remains is a paradox: our efforts to control fire have actually made conditions worse, setting the stage...
Monday, October 22

Copyright Squad doesn't like proud mothers, either

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While catching up with doings at Riehl World View I noticed this post titled Fox News Doesn't Like Blog People . Dan Riehl published a c...

Israel Bombing Raid on Syria Affair

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The Malibu wildfires preempted regular Sunday programming on KFI in Los Angeles, which meant John Batchelor's show was bumped, and techn...

Pundita not feeling well

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But will have a post up within the hour about Israel's bombing raid in Syria.
Thursday, October 18

Note

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If you read the following post before 1:40 PM EDT, please see the update at the end of the post. And a note to "JL" -- yes, it doe...

No to mission drift

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If I fiddled with the following letter to a friend I suppose it would read better and might even become a proper essay. But I'm still em...
Tuesday, October 16

Now more than ever the Democracy Agenda, not the Dignity Agenda

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David Ignatius's The Dignity Agenda op-ed reads like the foreign policy version of the argument that your teenager won't like you i...

A crash course on Burma's post-colonial history

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In a mere five paragraphs Thant Myint-U, author of River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma (one of the few modern histories of Burma) a...
Monday, October 15

Writing a new playbook on Burma

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What is all this nattering reaching my ears that UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari can't hope to make a whit of progress with Burma's junta? ...
Sunday, October 14

Burma's dumb generals trying to make a nuke?

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In 2002, Joshua Kurlantzick, who covered trade and international economics for U.S. News & World Report, wrote a piece on Burma for the ...

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong! Listen to your daddy!

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Pundita has ragged on China and India for their role in supporting Burma's junta. Not to make Singapore feel left out or anything: [...]...
Saturday, October 13

Strategic Communication: how to get your message across when the enemy's agitprop is better than yours

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"One point of agreement across the political spectrum and that of informed opinion is that the [US government] has not done a particula...
Friday, October 12

China joins in strong statement to Burma - YIPPPEE!!

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We go into the weekend on a hopeful note. From Reuters , October 12, 2007: UNITED NATIONS -- China joined Western powers for the first time ...