A Mercedes Benz waits to take Pakistani General Eshan Ul Haq and US General Peter Pace to a meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad in 2008. (Staff Sgt. Myles Cullen USAF)
What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden
New York Times
By Carlotta Gall
Carlotta Gall uncovers extraordinary evidence suggesting not only did Pakistan know about Bin Laden’s whereabouts, but that its intelligence service had an entire desk dedicated to handle him.
Putin’s Counter-Revolution
London Review of Books
By James Meeks
James Meeks contextualizes the recent developments in Ukraine not as part of some kind of extension of Russian influence, but rather an effort to preserve its already long-established presence. Meeks discusses how the exit of many of the most thoughtful older political thinkers, as well as the inability of young people growing up after the fall of the USSR to understand its history, has fundamentally changed political discourse.
A Passage from Hong Kong
New York Review of Books
By Maya Janasoff
Maya Janasoff reviews Rose George’s account of a voyage aboard one of today’s largest container ships from Hong Kong to Southampton, England and tells us what it says about globalized trade.
Take Me Home, Mother Russia
Foreign Policy
By Frank Jacobs
Frank Jacobs breaks down Russia’s potentially most volatile geographic confrontations by listing ten regions outside Russia waiting to get in, and ten regions inside Russia waiting to get out.
How to Punish Putin
New York Times Op-Ed
Alexey A. Navalny
Alexey Navalny, a famous anti-corruption blogger, lawyer, and now one of Russia’s most prominent opposition politicians, explains what kind of sanctions would most effectively target Putin and his inner circle, while sparing the average Russian.
Blogs:
Crimea or the Future of the Liberal World Order by Maxime H.A. Larivé
Al-Shabaab and Party Balloon Effect by Abukar Arman
Assad Re-captures Yabroud and Lebanon Takes a Plunge by Alexander Corbeil
Is Economic Trade Policy a Strategic Tool by George F. Paik
Were the Ottomans the good imperialists? by Hannah Gais
