September 2007

U.N. envoy lands in Myanmar for talks Internet connections remained cut off, constricting the flow of photographs and video that had helped galvanize world opinion against the junta."The strategy is to neutralize the demonstrators, and they seem to have done that very effectively," said Tim Huxley, executive director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-Asia.
Talking truth to power On Thursday afternoon, I had to make a brief presentation on challenges and constraints to achieving the MDGs, along with Olga Tellis, resident editor of the Indian newspaper The Asian Age. I emphasised the importance of relations between India and Pakistan and how these generally irrational and often vicious relations impact upon the overall state of development in the region. While flying from Karachi to Mumbai, I had seen this report in a newspaper by the International Institute for...
Seven Questions: Is the Surge Working in Iraq Toby Dodge, one of the worlds foremost experts on modern-day Iraq, has been visiting the country regularly since 2003. FP recently sat down with a deeply pessimistic Dodge to get his take on U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the surge, and the Biden-Gelb plan for partitioning Iraq.
Irans Revolutionary Guards The Revolutionary Guards primary role is internal security, but experts say the force assists Irans regular army, which has about 350,000 soldiers, with external defenses. Border skirmishes during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s helped transform the guard into a conventional fighting force organized in a command authority similar to Western armies; some analysts compare it to the old Bolshevik Red Army. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies,...
This silence on the Army speaks volumes General Sir Richard Dannatt must seem an increasingly turbulent priest. Warning of a growing gulf between the nation and its Army, and calling for an outward and visible sign of public esteem in homecoming parades, he risks the sword. But he does so through hard-headed professionalism. Recall what he said when he became Chief of the General Staff: "I want an Army in five years' time."
BB crosses the line on AQ Khan? The most recent report revealing Dr Khans sale of nuclear technology has come this year from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. It confirms that Dr Khan had begun making his efforts to put his enterprise on the market in 1987 when he talked openly to the Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar about what he had in his nuclear inventory. After being reprimanded by General Zia-ul-Haq, he nonetheless sold his wares to Iran the same year...

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