PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — The island of Haiti is surprisingly easy to get to from the United States. Pay $300 for a round trip ticket from Miami, and an hour and a half later an Airbus 300 descends from the Caribbean skies to deposit you at the gates of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port au Prince, and into the middle of a nation both hurting from decades of instability and full of a renewed sense of optimism after restoration of basic security following a humanitarian intervention by U.N. troops. World Politics Review will be featuring a series [...]
The Commentary Week in Review is posted on the blog every Friday. Drawing from more than two dozen English-language news outlets worldwide, the column highlights a handful of the week’s notable op-eds. World Bank-Rolling Iran Mark Kirk pointed out in the August 10 Washington Post that while both the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency have found Iran in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the World Bank continues to fund projects in Iran. According to Kirk, a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, the World Bank is presently funding “nine government projects in [...]
The following are email messages World Politics Review received in response to Day 16 of Kurt Pelda’s “Among Darfur Rebels and Refugees: A Road Diary,” in which he criticized rebel leader Suleiman Jamous. Pelda’s response to these letters is contained in his epilogue to the diary.-o-Aug. 2, 2007 Sir: Kurt Pelda’s insinuation that Suleiman Jamous was not a legitimate humanitarian coordinator for the SLA is unfounded. During the time in which Suleiman held this position, he interacted on a day-to-day basis with numerous international agencies, all of whom came to hold him in high esteem for his efficiency, honesty and [...]
