by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 17, 2014 | Monitor
Patricia Lee Sharpe If the past is predictive, there’s little reason to worry about the mechanics for India’s parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to begin on April 5 and roll across the country, phases by phase, for thirty-six days. What does worry me, for...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Feb 26, 2014 | Monitor
Patricia Lee Sharpe With its unsettled population facing East and West a la Dr. Doolittle’s pushmipullyu, how’s one to predict what’s going to happen in Ukraine over the next few weeks? Will Ukranian and Russian speakers find a way to cooperate within existing...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Feb 19, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been training his verbal artillery at the U.S. for the last couple of years. Barrage after barrage of bitter recrimination. He’s nearing the end of his second term as President of Afghanistan. Unless he has a...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 13, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Hugh White’s 180-page book The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power has an important point to make, but terseness is not always a virtue. Primers can be as off-putting as tomes, and this primer is more like a plumped up outline or a script...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 28, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeI checked out the webpage of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi just after Secretary of State John Kerry had completed his two-day visit to India’s capital. Scrolling down the home page, I found a gallery of predictable VIP visitor photos:...