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Pakistan Dispatch: Watch this space
The BBC reports that thousands of people turned up for the funerals of victims of the suicide attack on Shia worshippers in Karachi. ...Keep watching this space. UPDATE: AFP r...
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Afghanistan Policy Debate in the Boston Review
Nir Rosen and I had breakfast this morning and caught up over coffee and eggs, but that hasn't stopped us from going at each other in this month's Boston Review, which feature...
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Book Review: The Water Engine
David Mamet's 1977 play The Water Engine could have taken many forms. Mamet could have taken his basic premise—guy invents engine that runs on water—and easily turned it into ...
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Catching Up
I have not been posting much recently, enjoying my retirement from daily blogging, but Richard Fontaine and I got name-checked in the lead editorial from today's Washington Po...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Lighting the sectarian bonfire in Karachi
A suicide bomber killed around 30 people in Karachi today during traditional Shia Muharram ceremonies. It's not clear at this point whether the attack was part of Karachi's lo...
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This Weekend’s News: Good News, Bad News
Is it just me, or since Copenhagen are we seeing more and more reports on non-success stories (for lack of a better term) on clean energy and climate change? The past year pro...
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Son of Tito, Leatherneck
Nick Francona -- U.S. Marine, Penn graduate and all-around American Hero -- emailed me to wish me a Merry Christmas and to say he gave me a shout out on ESPN.com. Nick's story...
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Merry Christmas, Gang
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We're on a Break
We bloggers will be on a break starting today, but will return next week. Look for our weekend review, natural security news, our 2010 wish list, and more starting Monday. Hap...
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Pakistan News Update - US conducted raids into FATA
US Special Forces have conducted multiple raids into Pakistani territory, local daily The Nation reported today in a front-page article that was basically just quoting an earl...
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Book Review: The End of Food
One of the great things about working in a new program area like Natural Security is that we’re constantly reassessing how to best address our research area. Recently, the imp...
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This Weekend's News: A Winter Wonderland...and Copenhagen
The big story for many of us this weekend was, of course, the monster blizzard that slammed the East Coast on Friday night, continuing through Sunday, stranding thousands duri...
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Pakistan Dispatch: Sufis - Pakistan's Saviours?
On December 4, four militants stormed a mosque used extensively by Pakistan Army personnel and killed 35 people who had gathered for Friday prayers. Among the victims were 17 ...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st CenturyThe U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 21st Century, published by the Korea Institute for National Unification in December 2009, explores the bilateral relationship between the United S...
By Abraham M. Denmark & Richard Fontaine
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Reading Old Magazines: Potential Impact of Climate Change on World Food Supply
Several years ago I was coaching a high school debate team in Boston and my students were asked to debate increasing alternative energy incentives in the United States. As one...
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A New Approach to Ocean Policy
If you put your ear up to the Oval Office and listen very carefully, you can hear the gentle sound of ocean waves lapping. That’s because the presidentially-mandated Interagen...
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Events from Around Town: EIA’s Updated Energy Forecasts to 2035
Yesterday morning I took the Red Line up to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to attend a presentation by the head of the Energy Information Administr...
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Hizballah's Tired, Derivative New Manifesto
This weekend, I went to the local coffeeshop to read two documents which I had previously skimmed but to which I wanted to devote more attention and felt deserved a closer rea...
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This Weekend’s News: Noteworthy News from Our #2 Supplier of Oil Imports
You couldn’t swing a dead polar bear this weekend without hitting hundreds of reports and commentaries about Copenhagen or Climategate, so I’m going to focus my attention else...
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Invictus
A movie by that name opens today. But Spec. Brandon Marrocco, I believe, truly embodies the word. This guy is incredible....