After months of deliberation, on December 1, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he would send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in an effort to rein in a resurgent Taliban. Obama’s announcement, along with the ongoing controversy surrounding the legitimacy of Hamid Karzai’s re-election as president of Afghanistan, have brought renewed attention to the [...]
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Happy International Human Rights Day! On December 10, 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global proclamation on human rights and the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and [...]
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Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the US State Department to discuss US commitment in Central Asia. At a joint press conference, Qureshi urged the United States to pursue a long-term vision, “not just for Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the entire region.” He went on [...]
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On September 27th, 2009, Angela Merkel was re-elected chancellor of Germany, with her Christian Democratic party winning 33% of the vote. August elections in Japan swept the Democratic Party of Japan into office, under the leadership of Yukio Hatoyama as the new Prime Minister, after over 50 years of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. [...]
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