Jan 6, 2011
The Nation, by Greg Kaufmann, January 3, 2011 [An interview with Michael Shank, senior policy adviser for Congressman Michael Honda, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Afghanistan Taskforce] Shank came to DC after ten years of development work in...
Dec 3, 2010
Is Counterterrorism Enough? Foreign Affairs, by Marisa L. Porges, November 16, 2010 Yemen rose to the forefront of U.S. counterterrorism efforts in December 2009, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was trained in Yemen by al Qaeda, attempted to bomb an airliner bound...
Oct 14, 2010
OP-ED COLUMN, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF NYT, Published: October 13, 2010 MUSCAT, Oman As the United States relies on firepower to try to crush extremism in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, it might instead consider the lesson of the remarkable Arab country of Oman. Just...
Oct 9, 2010
By HELENE COOPER, NYT, October 9, 2010 IN the panoply of national security conundrums facing the Obama administration, there is one that stands central. Can the United States ever succeed in the Afghanistan war if its two principal allies mistrust each other? Indeed,...
Sep 8, 2010
Source: Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Date: 31 Aug 2010 INTRODUCTION On 23 July 2010, the eve of the African Union’s Summit in Kampala, AU Commission chairperson Jean Ping announced that he had asked countries, including South Africa, Angola, Nigeria,...
