state takes precedence over their own lives. Focusing on states as persons distracts us from how violence travels across levels of analysis. States don’t do violence to one another. They inflict violence on actual living beings.
This is a guest post, written by Margarita Konaev, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Kirstin J.H....
This is a guest post, written by Antje Wiener, Professor of Political Science, especially Global Governance, University of Hamburg (Germany) and By-Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge...
Dead American soldiers became the objects of highly visible and ongoing contest this week - over the ways and means of grieving America's fallen. In fact, the events discussed in this short post...
Question of the day: are we winning?Answer:Asked point-blank whether the United States is winning in Iraq, Abizaid replied: "Given unlimited time and unlimited support, we're winning the war."In other words--no. We don't have unlimited time, and its rather clear that the Administration hasn't...
William Dobson has a piece in the current issue of Foreign Policy (subscription required, but I'll bet if you google around you can find a copy of the text someplace) provocatively titled "The Day Nothing Much Changed." In brief, Dobson argues that the terrorist attacks didn't change much about...
...or the lenders that prey on them?Conservative Congressman Blocking Crackdown on Predatory Lenders Targeting U.S. TroopsGlad he has a link on his website so that vistors can send a message of support to our troops. Guess that makes the mugging he is facilitating behind their backs okie dokie....
The recent flap about Pope Benedict XVI's remarks in a lecture at the University of Regensburg has been fascinating (in a somewhat macabre way) to watch. As Abu Aardvark has noted, the popular reaction to the remarks looks like a speeded-up film of the reaction to the Danish cartoons of the...
...since the Mets last won a division title. Hopefully they are not done. Gonna be an exciting October.Filed as: Mets
...with thunderous applause?There seems to have been a coup in Thailand.The BBC reports that:A faction of the Thai military led by the army chief says it has overthrown Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.Soldiers have occupied the prime minister's offices and surrounded them with tanks, while...
Another day, another charge of "liberal hypocrisy." This time, Bill Thornton points out the odious double-standards of those who sought to get ABC to alter or pull "The Path to 9/11".Start with the total silence of the usual civil liberties suspects to say a word about this attempt at stifling...
Rajiv Chandrasekaran's report on how the Bush administration staffed the CPA raises an interesting counterfactual: What if the Bush administration had, in fact, bothered to develop a post-war plan for Iraq? Would it have made any difference given whom they chose to run the show?O'Beirne's staff...
These are the opening paragraphs of today's BBC story about the IAEA's reaction to a much-discussed August 23 congressional report, which played up Iran's alleged nuclear "threat": The UN nuclear watchdog has protested to the US government over a report on Iran's nuclear programme, calling it...
Seriously, its like shooting Fish in a Barrel.Today, we're "safer, but we are not yet safe." In fact, "The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad." Its an important struggle, "In truth, it is a struggle for civilization."To paraphrase Jon Stewart, If the...
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I drove my wife to the Nanuet train station. We said goodbye and she got on the train to begin her commute into Manhattan. I went home and took a shower.Sometime later that morning I went downstairs to the basement of our townhouse, which doubled as my office....
How many ways is Sept 10, 2006 different from Sept 10, 2001? Five years ago, there was a football game on in Prime Time, the Yankees heading for the post season, a Bush presidency struggling a bit to find its legs in the world of international affairs, and a general sense that tomorow would be...