August 2008

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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Arrest of the World's Most Wanted Man

Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 21 after more than a decade in hiding. There have been riots and protests in Belgrade from Karadzic supporters, and celebration in Sarajevo. Officials of Republika Srpska (RS), the Bosnian Serb political entity, criticized the Bosnian government’s celebration.

August 21, 2008
Arthur Traldi
August 2008

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Ikhwan: The Muslim Brotherhood

During the spring of 2007, the Bush administration began expanding its diplomatic engagement with independently elected Muslim Brotherhood officials in Egypt. The Brotherhood (known as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen in Arabic), is an influential transnational Salafist movement based in Egypt with affiliates in an estimated 70-odd countries worldwide. In actions that seemed partly influenced by leading analysts’ recommendations, the United States government’s outreach to the Brotherhood renewed contacts that had not cultivated through non-covert channels since 2001...

August 21, 2008
Sally El-Sadek
August 2008

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The Other Energy Crisis: Europe's Increasing Dependence on Russian Natural Gas

Despite the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, relations between the West and Russia remain critically important to global peace, security, and prosperity today. Sustained and predictable dialogue between the two is essential to ensuring cooperation on a host of global issues, from trade to climate change to conflict resolution. As part of the latest discussions, the European Union (EU) and Russia launched talks in early July 2008 on a new partnership between Brussels and Moscow. A new agreement is especially important now, given recent developments such as the enlargement of the EU, the leadership transition in Moscow, and changed global dynamics which see Russia playing a far more assertive role in world affairs than in the recent past...

August 21, 2008
Blair Glencourse
August 2008

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Tibet and the Dalai Lama

All eyes are on Beijing as it hosts the 2008 Olympic Games. Since winning the Olympic bid in 2001, Beijing has come under intense scrutiny for failing to deliver on its Olympic-sized promises of improving human rights conditions in China, especially in the autonomous region of Tibet. This past March, historic tensions between Tibet and China exploded into the largest pro-independence protest against China in twenty years. Five-hundred Tibetan monks staged a peaceful protest against Chinese rule, and China immediately cracked down, shutting out all media and dispatching armed police who quashed the protests with gunfire and tear gas....

August 21, 2008
Aneil K. Pai
August 2008

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Colombia: Will FARC Rise Again From the Ashes?

FARC Rebels On Sunday July 20th, 2008, former hostage and Colombian Senator Ingrid Betancourt led a demonstration to end the longstanding conflict between Colombia and the guerrilla group that captured her, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). Global demonstrations in France, Colombia, and elsewhere joined Ms. Betancourt’s efforts to end FARC violence,and have resulted in thousands of calls for peace in Colombia and an end to kidnapping, a common practice of the guerrillas...

August 21, 2008
Alejandro Salicrup
August 2008

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Al-Bashir Indicted: Justice versus Peace?

On July 14th, 2008, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo requested an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on the charges of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Darfur. This is the first time that the ICC has ever brought genocide charges; it's also the first time that the Court has brought charges against a sitting head of state.

August 21, 2008
Anne van den Heuvel
August 2008

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Video Interview: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University (Part 2)

(Part 2) Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University joins Olivier Kamanda at Foreign Policy Digest to discuss the international legal response to the George-Russia crisis and the future of liberal internationalism.

August 19, 2008
Olivier Kamanda
August 2008

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Video Interview: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University (Part 1)

(Part 1) Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University joins Olivier Kamanda at Foreign Policy Digest to discuss the international legal response to the George-Russia crisis and the future of liberal internationalism.

August 19, 2008
Olivier Kamanda
August 2008

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Amid Turmoil in Somalia, a Hint of Hope

Somalia is becoming increasingly unstable. Fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali government troops and insurgents has ravaged for months. Roadside bombings, kidnappings and political assassinations regularly occur. Persistent violence has lead to mass exodus and scarcity of food in the war-torn Mogadishu.

December 10, 2007
Mariana Marques
August 2008