Saturday
Mar272010
APRIL 2010
VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 2
(IWPR) Cash for deaths, injury and damage caused during military operations seen as disrespectful and violating tradition. [read]
(IWPR) Centenarian recalls her family’s suffering but says now is time to build bridges with Turkey. [read]
(IWPR) In post-Taleban Afghanistan, illegal dog-fighting attracts rich and poor and high-stakes gambling is rife. [read]
(IWPR) They branded Allawi a traitor for presiding over the siege of their city, but now see him as their best bet. [read]
(IWPR) After a two-year slump in opium prices, farmers and officials say production and revenues in Helmand are rising again. [read]
(IWPR) Defiance comes as interim government announces plans for presidential election after bloody revolt. [read]
(IWPR) A former Al Qaeda member tells his story to IWPR: what drove him to join the fight in Iraq, and why he left it behind. . [read]
(IWPR) Afghan officials and neighbouring countries blamed as land and property are swallowed up by border river. [read]
(IWPR) Critics say security forces are not doing enough to protect civilians. [read]
Pick your favorite foreign policy cliche as temperatures rise in the scramble for the Arctic. [read]
How hurt feelings rallied a nation: remembering the 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series. [read]
Was the April 6th massacre of 76 Indian police officers a strategic mistake? [read]
A recent thought piece on seasteading misses its stickier implications for privacy laws and protection of personal information. [read]
Sport and post-conflict reconstruction: how surfing is helping Liberia recover, in more ways than one. [read]
Why the government needs to make a clear moral case for killing civilian terror suspects. [read]
How the political cost of casualties will impact America's ability to fight netwar. [read]
The triumph of opinion: following pop science writer Simon Singh's libel case odyssey. [read]
What the Vatican sex scandal really means - for the Church, and for ordinary Catholics. [read]
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
(H-Net) Reviewed by Avinoam Patt [read]
Sex, Thugs and Rock'n Roll:
Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
(H-Net) Reviewed by Mareike Herrman [read]
What the Kings of War are reading and thinking: a monthly survey. by Kenneth Payne [read]
Rigid ideology meets civil-military relations in the Don't Ask, Don't Tell affair. by Jon Western [read]
Sand shanties and free forests: climate change fixes for post-war Liberia. by Lynn Morris [read]
by Tony Waters [read]
by Geoffrey Nyamboga
[read]
by Oliver Bullough
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by Ella Rolfe [read]
Features
Afghan Anger At US Casualty Payments
(IWPR) Cash for deaths, injury and damage caused during military operations seen as disrespectful and violating tradition. [read]
Armenian Survivor Remembers Ottoman Mass Killings
(IWPR) Centenarian recalls her family’s suffering but says now is time to build bridges with Turkey. [read]
Going To The Dogs
(IWPR) In post-Taleban Afghanistan, illegal dog-fighting attracts rich and poor and high-stakes gambling is rife. [read]
Fallujans Put Faith In Their Former Tormentor
(IWPR) They branded Allawi a traitor for presiding over the siege of their city, but now see him as their best bet. [read]
Helmand Poppy Growth Surges
(IWPR) After a two-year slump in opium prices, farmers and officials say production and revenues in Helmand are rising again. [read]
Kyrgyz Leader Tries To Rally Support
(IWPR) Defiance comes as interim government announces plans for presidential election after bloody revolt. [read]
My Life As An Insurgent
(IWPR) A former Al Qaeda member tells his story to IWPR: what drove him to join the fight in Iraq, and why he left it behind. . [read]
River Flood Claims Lives, Territory
(IWPR) Afghan officials and neighbouring countries blamed as land and property are swallowed up by border river. [read]
Sadr City Shaken By Bombings
(IWPR) Critics say security forces are not doing enough to protect civilians. [read]
Agenda Highlights
Canada, Actic Security & The Inuit
Pick your favorite foreign policy cliche as temperatures rise in the scramble for the Arctic. [read]
Inverting Cold War Stereotypes
How hurt feelings rallied a nation: remembering the 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series. [read]
Maoist Massacre Shines Light on Indian COIN
Was the April 6th massacre of 76 Indian police officers a strategic mistake? [read]
Seasteading... Instead
A recent thought piece on seasteading misses its stickier implications for privacy laws and protection of personal information. [read]
Surfing Liberia
Sport and post-conflict reconstruction: how surfing is helping Liberia recover, in more ways than one. [read]
The Flimsy Case For Drone Warfare
Why the government needs to make a clear moral case for killing civilian terror suspects. [read]
The Limits of Netwar
How the political cost of casualties will impact America's ability to fight netwar. [read]
The Mobius Trip
The triumph of opinion: following pop science writer Simon Singh's libel case odyssey. [read]
The Trial of Pope Benedict XVI
What the Vatican sex scandal really means - for the Church, and for ordinary Catholics. [read]
Books
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
(H-Net) Reviewed by Avinoam Patt [read]
Sex, Thugs and Rock'n Roll:
Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
(H-Net) Reviewed by Mareike Herrman [read]
Columns
THE GREEN ZONE: Sex, Art, Doctrine
What the Kings of War are reading and thinking: a monthly survey. by Kenneth Payne [read]
THE QUIET AMERICAN: The Beliefs of Generals
Rigid ideology meets civil-military relations in the Don't Ask, Don't Tell affair. by Jon Western [read]
Letters From Abroad
Liberia on the Brink
Sand shanties and free forests: climate change fixes for post-war Liberia. by Lynn Morris [read]
Comment
Differentiating Police and Military Action
by Tony Waters [read]
Kenyan Cooperation Crucial to ICC Probe
by Geoffrey Nyamboga
[read]
New US Thinking On Chechnya Needed
by Oliver Bullough
[read]
Time Ripe For Iraqi Reconciliation?
by Ella Rolfe [read]
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