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What do you think President Bush should say at the U.N.?
President Bush is scheduled to make his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Even without...
Sorry, John Bolton, there’s still only “one-China” (policy).
A.P. reports: NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (AP) - (Kyodo) The United Nations on Wednesday rejected a request by Taiwan to include the...
Hearings Set for Law of the Sea
Unilateralists are getting ready to squirm. The date for the first hearing on the Law of the Sea convention has been set...
Happy 20th Birthday, Montreal Protocol!
Opinio Juris has a fantastic post regarding the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer's September 16 birthday. According to...
Ignatius: Wider War or Creative Diplomacy?
The Washington Post's David Ignatius lays out four creative diplomatic opportunities that might diffuse the growing tension between the United States, Iran,...
Bad news from Pakistan
Two pieces of bad news coming out of Pakistan in recent days, one involving the political situation and the other on the...
Nuclear Insanity
My colleague, Scott Paul, raises some good points about a about a recent(-ish) Washington Post editorial attack on Mohamed ElBaradei and the...
The Minute: Ratify the Law of the Sea
RATIFY THE LAW OF THE SEAThe Earth from space is a soft collage of green, blue, brown and white. National borders are...
From Off to the Side Comes a New Vision
Last week I was chatting with the Global Interdependence Initiative's Director and occasional Switchblog contributor, David Devlin-Foltz, over lunch about global issues...
The Rogue Regulator Responds
Mohamed ElBaradei, "Rogue Regulator" and head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, accused his Western detractors (read Washington Post Editorial Board) of...
ArmsControlWonk Saves My Weekend
According to the highly-respected Jeffrey Lewis over at the uber-wonky ArmsControlWonk : I do not find compelling the speculation, suggested by Larry...