Britain and France Want to Act on Libya, Will the US Lead? WASHINGTON– Paddy Ashdown , former British Liberal-Democratic leader and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina between...
Europe Will Not Act on Libya, US Slow: Has The West Any Resolve? WASHINGTON – Regarding what Europe is doing about the crisis in Libya, if it were not for...
What Will America Do to Make Gaddafi Go? WASHINGTON– After having declared in starkly clear terms that “Gaddafi has got go”, what is Washington going...
Libya, Test Case for When and How a Government is Deemed Unfit A new era of limited sovereignty? WASHINGTON – With the unfolding Libya crisis we are witnessing the emergence of “limited sovereignty” as a novel, (and...
Associated Press Reports Obama Declaring Gaddafi Has to Leave Finally some clear words from the White House on Gaddafi. According to the AP, president Barack Obama...
The Arab World’s Glorious, Yet Uneasy, Steps Towards Democracy WASHINGTON – A recent US public TV documentary featured Gigi Ibrahim, one of the young stars of...
Gaddafi Is Defiant, America Too Quiet From CNN: “Plea to the World, Help Us in Tripoli” –A Libyan Woman calling in, asking for...
Libya Reminds Us of Unresolved Oil Vulnerabilities WASHINGTON– First Tunisia, then Egypt and Yemen and Bahrain. And now, back to North Africa, we have...
In Arcadia, Playing for South Africa’s Future Energy and dynamism expressed only in soccer games PRETORIA, South Africa – (Notes from October 2009). The other day I was walking from my Court Classique Hotel to...
How to Cut The Roots of Terrorism By Paolo von Schirach November 27, 2007 WASHINGTON – Since 9/11 a cottage industry of theories about “the sources...