By Selcuk Colakoglu With the neutrality status declared after gaining independence in 1991, Turkmenistan started to implement a distinct foreign policy strategy. In this way, Ashgabat attempted to preserve its stability in the state-building and nation-building processes, keeping its distance from current regional and global problems. Under the leadership of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmenistan gave [...]
The New Concept Of Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy – Analysis
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Bangladesh: Punish War Criminals But Maintain Law And Order – Analysis
By Anand Kumar In the ongoing war crime trials in Bangladesh, 10 top leaders of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and two leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are being tried. The verdicts in three cases have come and the remaining ones are likely to come in the next one month or so. [...]
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BRICS Baby Steps: The Challenges Ahead – Analysis
By R N Das The fifth edition of the BRICS forum is set to be held in Durban, South Africa, on 26 and 27 of March 2013. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to meet the newly elected President of China Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit. This will be their first meeting, [...]
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America’s Asia Strategy In Obama’s Second Term – Analysis
By Arvind Gupta In a major speech delivered at the Asia Society on 11 March 2013, US National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon clarified Obama’s rebalancing strategy. The clarification is important as there has been a lot of confusion since 2011 as to what US rebalancing to the Asia Pacific actually meant. The Chinese were particularly [...]
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US Supreme Court To Rule On Gay Marriage
By Jim Malone The issue of same-sex marriage heads to the U.S. Supreme Court March 26 and 27. The high court will hear a challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage and will also consider a federal law that defines marriage solely as the union of a man and a woman. Supporters of gay marriage [...]
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White House To Argue For GPS Tracking Without A Warrant
Lawyers for the Obama administration will argue next week that US authorities are not required to obtain a search warrant before attaching a GPS device to an individual’s car in order to keep tabs on them. The case, set to be heard on Tuesday by the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, comes [...]
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Russia, China: Summit Focused On Investment, Energy
Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow on his first foreign visit since assuming office. He has also become the first visiting foreign leader to be welcomed to the Kremlin by a ceremonial line-up of mounted guards. This is what President Putin had to say ahead of going into Kremlin talks with his Chinese counterpart: [...]
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Rumble In The Congo – OpEd
It’s one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of precious metals and natural resources. It’s also an ungoverned “Wild East” drawing in competing militias into prolonged bloody wars, and soon, possibly the neighboring states competing for influence. Welcome to the eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Last week, Africa watchers worldwide were [...]
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Drones Over America Require New Laws, U.S. Senate Told
During a senate hearing, titled, “The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations,” held on Wednesday, legal experts told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee that within the next ten years thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, will be used to gather information from civilians by law enforcement and [...]
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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready For Return To Earth
More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for Tuesday, March 26. Dragon’s originally scheduled March 25 return date was postponed due to inclement weather developing near its targeted splashdown site in the Pacific [...]
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Peace Fraud: Obama Fails To Demand Halt To Illegal Settlements – OpEd
By Stuart Littlewood Miko Peled doesn’t mince words: “The Israeli-Palestinian issue is, politically, a toxic wasteland that no US president in his right mind would want to clean up. It has become a vicious cycle of deceit and double standards, and it will contaminate any US politician who tries to clean it up.” And one [...]
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Syrian Regime Loses Last Credible Ally Among The Sunni Ulama – OpEd
By Thomas Pierret for Syria Comment With the assassination of Sheikh Muhammad Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti (b. 1929), who was killed in Thursday’s bomb attack at the al-Iman mosque in Damascus, the Syrian regime lost its last credible ally among the Sunni religious elite. A Muslim scholar of world standing, al-Buti had conferred religious legitimacy on [...]
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Jihad In Syria – OpEd
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi for Syria Comment How do the jihadist rebels generally conceive of jihad in the Syrian civil war? One useful way to look into this question is to examine the Qur’anic verses pertaining to warfare cited in propaganda statements. In this context, one recurring verse is 22:39, which runs as follows: ‘Permission [to [...]
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A Draft-Dodging, Zionist Friendly, Rightwing Texan Islamist To Lead Syria? – OpEd
For the past year, a plan C or D, depending on how one numbers the failed US-Israel projects in Syria was badly needed for those presuming to topple the Assad government. And this week, according to Congressional staffers, both Tel Aviv and the White House are pinching themselves in disbelief over their good luck with [...]
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Obama’s Grand Bargain? Israel Apologizes To Turkey, Promises Mavi Marmara Compensation – OpEd
In a remarkable about-face after three years of adamant refusal, Bibi Netanyahu has apologized to Turkey’s premier for Israel’s 2009 massacre on the Mavi Marmara. He’s also promised financial compensation to the families of the nine Turkish citizens murdered during the attack. Reports also indicate an Israeli agreement to ease the Gaza blockade, though the [...]
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China: Enter The Xi Jinping Administration – Analysis
By Zachary Fillingham The National People’s Congress put its final rubber stamp on a series of appointments this week, filling out the remaining unknowns of the government that will rule China for the next ten years. The appointments contained no surprises: Xi Jinping as president, Li Keqiang as premier, Li Yuanchao as vice president, Wang [...]
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Is There An Endgame In Afghanistan? – Analysis
By Vikram Sood The visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s visit to Kabul had been greeted by two suicide attacks on March 9 that left 18 dead. The Taliban were obviously leaving their calling card. But the visit was a fiasco, as President Karzai insisted that U.S. Special Forces leave Wardak because of allegations [...]
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Reviving India-Egypt Defence Cooperation – Analysis
By C. Raja Mohan At the joint press appearance with the visiting Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the two countries have agreed to initiate military exchanges and defence cooperation. In an interview to an Indian newspaper on the eve of his visit, Morsy expressed his interest in establishing security cooperation with [...]
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Burma: Martial Law Declared In Meikhtila As Mobs Threaten Journalists
By Aye Nai The government announced the imposition of martial law in central Burma’s Meikhtila as rioting continued for the third day and reports surfaced that mobs, which included Buddhist monks, have been threating and destroying reporters’ footage and photographs. At 4pm on Friday, President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in the township [...]
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Can Burma Negotiate With Ethnic Rebels For Genuine Peace? – Analysis
By Zin Linn The Government of Burma has released a number of statements indicating its willingness to reach agreement with ethnic armed-groups and political opponents, domestic and exile. Unfortunately, those offers have been considered contradictory. Ethnic minorities have been suffering through five decades of brutal military maneuvers in the name of national unity. Attacks on [...]
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