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September 17, 2009

United States
National Missile Defense: A Status Report

The United States has pursued missile defense technologies for six decades, with mixed results. Changes under the Obama administration, including adjustments to planned defenses in Europe, could port…

January 8, 2003

United States
Brazil is the Fulcrum: Independent Task Force Urges President Bush Quickly Recast U.S. Policy Towards Brazil

February 12, 2001 - With growing fears regarding the international economy, with Colombia on the edge of further chaos, and with the Summit of the Americas approaching in April and trade disputes bet…

December 21, 2012

United States
Preventive Priorities Survey 2013: Top Thirty Global Hotspots

This post originally appeared on the Atlantic online. President Obama has repeatedly pledge to do “nation-building at home” during his second-term.  However, it is likely that unanticipated world …

Senkaku protest

October 10, 2012

Thailand
Southern Philippines Deal a Lesson for Southern Thailand?

In the wake of the Philippines government announcing last weekend that Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) had agreed upon a peace plan after fifteen years of negotiations and forty y…

People leave the scene after a car bomb exploded in southern Thailand's Sai Buri district.

May 9, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Swaziland: King Mswati Gets a Plane for Forty-fourth Birthday

The Swazi prime minister has announced that a ’development partner’ has presented King Mswati III, forty-four, with a revamped MD-87 private jet as a ’birthday present.’ One South African newspaper, …

His Majesty King Mswati III, Head of State of the Kingdom of Swaziland addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters, in New York, September 25, 2010.