by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis In a recent post on the Snowden Case, Dmitri Trenin of Carnegie’s Moscow Institute asks why US relations with China – America’s real rival – are so much less contentious than they are with Russia. It’s a good question. Is it the differences in...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 3, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The Chinese dragon is frothing at the mouth, according to Delhi dailies. Because Japan is not respecting the cozy monopolistic relationship that China’s been trying to cultivate with India, Shinzo Abe and his government...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The President, it seems, can’t walk and chew gum. The so-called Asian pivot is a case in point, but not the only one. Is it really possible that a great power with the formal institutional resources available to the U.S. can’t keep an eye on the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The count’s still contested here and there—and loudly, especially in Karachi, which is no surprise. But the outcome is clear: the Pakistan Muslim League (N) won enough seats in last week’s parliamentary election to form a government all by...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 15, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Does North Korea’s leadership belong in the madhouse or Alcatraz as so many of our right wing politicians, militarists and some journalists seem to suggest? Or are they behaving as sanely – at least from their perspective – as their...
