Mexico’s election-crisis, the U.S.-South Korea marriage and China’s economic tap-dance (or romp) through Africa all got op-ed attention in the world’s English-language press this week. Terrorism and the war in Iraq were also woven into an ongoing flood of commentary prompted by the passing of the five-year anniversary of 9/11. But it was a handful of off-beat articles that grabbed us most, beginning with Carlos Alberto Montaner’s reminder in the Sept. 12 Miami Herald that this week marked the start of a meeting in Cuba of world leaders associated with “a curious diplomatic entity known as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).” [...]
Welcome to our new World Politics Blog. In this space, our editors will keep readers abreast of what’s happening on the site. We’ll call attention to notable pieces, relate them to the news, and from time to time our contributing writers will even post their thoughts here. We plan, for example, to feature first-person accounts from reporters of their experiences covering stories on location. For my first post here, I thought it would be a good idea just to point out a few features of the site. As you know if you’re a regular reader, our bread and butter is [...]
Turkey’s giving up on Europe and looking East instead, A.Q. Khan’s a hero in Pakistan, Chavez is buying influence, China’s rewriting history, it’s somehow getting worse in Sudan, sanctions will just inflame North Korea and the United States should cut a deal with the Taliban to fix Afghanistan. In a nutshell: The op-ed pages ran the gambit this week. But one theme did emerge. With the five-year anniversary of September 11 upon us, there was no shortage of reflective articles about how the world has, or has not, changed since New York’s twin towers came crumbling down. “It was the [...]
