Year in review
For Lebanon, 2010 was dominated by the continued investigation into the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hariri was murdered in February 2005, sparking off massive protests that led to the end of Syria’s 30 year occupation of Lebanon.
Since 2007, the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) …
The Year So Far.
Happy New Year to all. By the time this gets posted and read, Bangladesh will have been swept into the parade of countries switching alendars to a new year, 2011, and one sincerely hopes her people will turn to a new way of viewing the world.
Bangladesh, its …
All the FPA bloggers have been asked to write a Year in Review post that considers the events of the year and looks forward to the new year. It’s a daunting task, especially with a topic as expansive as the U.S. role in the world. What to focus on? This …
I find myself sitting here on the last day of 2010, another year…another decade…has again quickly passed and I am trying to get everything done as the day, and year, quickly close in on me. It really has all come and gone in a flash and as the year, …
Sri Lanka bans UN role in war crimes probe
Sri Lanka’s government today said it would prohibit the United Nations from conducting an independent investigation into claims that the military committed war crimes during the final months of its 25-year civil war …
Among other things, 2010 marked a number of national elections gone wrong. From Guinea to Haiti, Rwanda to the Philippines, Madagascar, Burundi and Belarus to name just a few, elections that were fair, free, non-violent and undisputed have been difficult …
Less than a week after a deadly suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan, the World Food Programme (WFP) plans to resume food aid for victims of deadly floods. The attack killed 46 and wounded over 100. The attacker was reported to be a woman wearing a burqa, the …
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Overview – The Met Office in the UK reports that 2010 is on track to be the warmest or second-warmest year in the instrumental record. Other science, based on massive data, supports that view. (See graphic above and NOAA’s annual State of …
Well just when you thought US-Syria relations where stuck in a rut we get a major curveball from Pres. Obama.
Robert Ford has been pushed through as US ambassador to Syria as part of a series of recess appointments by President Obama. While the manner of his appointment will limit the …
Overview
Brazil has long seemed poised to join China, Germany and the US as one of the few nations with influence that stretches far beyond its borders. Years from now, many historians may look back on 2010 as the year that Brazil at last turned the corner in its ascent …
I agree with the old adage that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Despite self-congratulatory speeches and political sloganeering, 2010 has not been the best year for Southern Africa in terms of problem solving, innovation, and policy entrepreneurship.
Take for example (as I alluded in …
If I had to pick a phrase to describe the Global Health arena in 2010, I would choose “2 steps forward, 1 step back”. With tightened purse strings, public health programs had hands tied in many ways; but on the research front, some of the breakthroughs were mind-blowing. All in …
By this time next year, the United States should have withdrawn all of its troops from Iraq. We can hope that this long, bloody chapter in American military history may be at an end.
Here are a few items worth reviewing from 2010 and some things to keep an eye on in 2011.
Notable Events in 2010:
Release of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR): This is the long-awaited (14 months) road map for reform of the State Department and USAID – what they do, …
Overview
The best news of 2010 is the decrease of the world’s hungry from 1.023 billion to 925 million, though most of that change is due to a reversal in high food prices and global economic crises, according to the UN’s Committee on Food Security (CFS). Taking this …
