by Madeline Bersch | Apr 22, 2014 | Monitor
Iran Admits Nuclear Agency Reshuffle to Pave Way for 5+1 Talks Mehrdad Balali / Reuters President Hassan Rouhani’s government confirmed rumors on Monday it had reshuffled the leadership of Iran’s atomic agency to sideline nuclear experts opposed to talks...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 31, 2014 | Monitor
By Jyrki Iivonen, Guest Contributor (Jyrki Iivonen was Director for Public Policy at the Finnish Ministry of Defense from 2002-13 and Minister Counselor at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, DC from 1996-2000. He was editor-in-chief of Maanpuolustus (National...
by zen | Mar 14, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] Russia, borrowing a tactic used by the Soviets with unruly satellites, has massed a fair amount of troops on the eastern border of Ukraine under the guise of “military exercises” This has spurred much commentary...
by zen | Mar 4, 2014 | Monitor
I have a new op-ed up this morning on the Crimean crisis over at War on the Rocks: Let’s Slow Roll Any Move Toward Crimean War II: One of the more curious implicit assumptions about the crisis in Ukraine is that the subsequent occupation of the Crimea by Russia...
by Joshua Miller | Dec 3, 2013 | Monitor
Perceived Corruption High in Sub-Saharan Africa Voice of America Several African nations were among the worst performers in Transparency International’s annual report on perceived corruption. The report gave each nation a score between 0 and 100. Besides Somalia,...
