Falling oil prices, more peace?
[caption id="attachment_18604" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Smoke rises from the Beiji oil
(In)discriminate language on Gaza
[caption id="attachment_14177" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Two women hold placards reading "Stop
What is the political center?
In an article about Obama's recent meeting with New York
Change from Within
In this dialogue with Matt Miller, Ezra Klein channels a
Why Does Congress Flail? Voters reward positions more than success.
This week, Congress may greet the new (fiscal) year, which
Needed: A Billionaire Candidate for President Who Shares the Views of a Washington Post Columnist
Writing in the Washington Post, Matt Miller wants a billionaire
The Resource Curse Revisited
With the (I guess still impending) fall of Qadaffi and
Potpourri
* NY Times paywall doing just fine. See also this
Tom Friedman Doesn’t Understand Parties
bq. A party is not an alien presence imposing its
Civil War and Mission Creep in Libya
Below is another guest post from "James Fearon":http://www.stanford.edu/~jfearon/. Jim wrote
It’s So Hard to Say Good-Bye (to Rogue Dictators)
bq. Today, hope abounds that the pressure is getting to
The Obama Effect Abroad
"According to Gallup polls in over a hundred countries":http://www.gallup.com/poll/146771/Worldwide-Approval-Leadership-Tops-Major-Powers.aspx, average
Election Report: Australia
"Geoffrey Robinson":http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/shhs/staff-directory2.php?username=geoffr has very kindly written a post for us,
If Thomas Friedman was a Political Scientist
Thomas Friedman has an "interesting column":http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html in the NY Times
Russia, Georgia and NATO
p. In explaining the roots of Russia’s assault on Georgia,