multilateralism

Wednesday 12th November

Obama's Afghan challenge

An underfunded and undermanned operation creeps towards disaster on the frontline of the "war on terrorism"
Tuesday 8th July

Ugly geopolitics surface in Kabul bombing

Pakistan should draw the right lesson from the carnage of yesterday's blast at the Indian embassy in Kabul
Wednesday 5th December

Iran, the United States and Europe: the nuclear complex

A US report raises hard questions about the west's nuclear diplomacy
Thursday 15th November

The so-called "war on terror"

Dialogue and understanding are the sharpest weapons in fighting terrorism, according to a Commonwealth study
Monday 5th November

Turkey and the Kurds: everybody's problem

The PKK challenge should unite Ankara, Washington and Iraqi Kurds

Friday 26th October

"Overcoming Extremism"

A conference in Washington suggests the US policy establishment is opening itself more to the world
Friday 12th October

Afghanistan: necessity and impossibility

Geopolitics will make needed negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban impossible
Tuesday 9th October

The IAEA escape route

Washington will miss yet another opportunity if it fails to support Iran's deal with the IAEA
Friday 21st September

One mistake too many

A slip-up in US nuclear weapons controls is cause for global concern
Thursday 20th September

The US foreign-policy future: a progressive-realist union?

A fashionable case for a post-neocon alliance is flawed
Wednesday 19th September

Diplomacy unbound

Europe risks irrelevance if it doesn't soften its approach to Iran
Friday 24th August

Brown's moral offensive

The battle of ideas requires policies and serious dialogue, not just rhetoric
Tuesday 31st July

A changing relationship

Gordon Brown's visit to the United States sees a change in style and substance
Thursday 5th July

Is the "war on terror" being won? (II)

The second in toD's roundtables on the state of the so-called "war-on-terror".
Wednesday 4th July

Is the "war on terror" being won?

Scholars and policy-makers probe the conduct of global counterterrorism.

Tuesday 26th June

India's soft allure

Islamabad grows anxious as New Delhi wields soft power in Afghanistan.

Thursday 31st May

US counterterrorism critiqued

Martin Scheinin, UN special rapporteur on human rights and terrorism, warns the Bush administration that its policies may do more harm than good.
Monday 30th April

Why terrorism?

Peter Neumann reports on the proceedings of the Council of Europe's "Why terrorism?" conference in Strasbourg.
Monday 23rd April

UN Security Council in action

Follow the recent activities of the United Nations Security Council, presided over this month by the British ambassador to the UN, Sir Emyr Jones Parry.
Monday 5th February

Iran's political persuasions

With Iran at once resolute in its foreign policy and fragmented in its internal politics, the US cannot approach Tehran crudely.
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