by William George | Apr 30, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Teenager Rescued Five Days After Nepal Quake Adnan Abidi, Sunil Kataria / Reuters A 15-year-old boy was pulled out alive from the collapsed ruins of Kathmandu’s Hilton Hotel on Thursday and is recovering in hospital, five days after a huge earthquake...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — biblio post #2 in preparation for the Boston conference – background on new religious movements and violence ] . Assuming I’m right that Islamic eschatology is now swinging into focus, and since my interest in the topic was...
by Sungtae "Jacky" Park | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
A major concern that opponents of the recent nuclear framework deal with Iran have is that the final deal will leave Iran as a “nuclear threshold state” after a decade. As noted by Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, “[t]he gradual expiration of the framework...
by Joshua Walker | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
This article is a cross-post from the blog site War on the Rocks Triumphant Modi, divisive Netanyahu, and, most recently, soothing Ghani. Washington has seen an unprecedented flurry of highly anticipated and consequential state visits with more just around the...
by Philip Rossetti | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Remarks Announcing the Release of the 2015 QDDR Report John Kerry / Department of State A year ago the Secretary charged our team, under the leadership of the QDDR co-chairs, to pull no punches about how State and USAID operate, how we need to operate, and...
