by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 21, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Update April 9, 2014 link to the letter itself: Senior Diplomats Call for Rejection of Ambassadorial Nominees,” DiploDenizen March 10, 2014. Update February 27, 2014: “Take Politics Out of Diplomacy,” USA Today column by...
by Nathan Daniels | Feb 5, 2014 | Monitor
Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing providing an update on the P5+1’s negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, contributed the progress made to a combination of “tough...
by Prachi Naik | Jul 27, 2012 | Monitor
A small two-square-mile island in the South China Sea is finding itself at the center of an alarming multistate power struggle. Yongxing Island, the largest of the Paracel Archipelago, has no indigenous inhabitants of its own and can only be remotely accessed by plane...
by Prachi Naik | Jun 27, 2012 | Monitor
On the eve of the third Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Law of the Sea treaty, I find public dialogue on the convention (still) divided between two camps: one of expansive, enthusiastic support and another of small, stubborn opposition. While the...
