by Lisa Monaco | Jul 16, 2014 | Monitor
Today, Congress took an important step forward in making sure that we’re developing the capabilities necessary to make America safer. As the President’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, I welcome the Senate Appropriations Defense...
by John Bugnacki | Jul 13, 2014 | Monitor
Islam transcends the Middle-Eastern corridor with which most Westerners associate it, stretching from the western coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean. It contains an incredible variety of different sects, beliefs, and traditions, most of which firmly reject the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Dec 2, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe How many reasonably well-informed Americans realize that Pakistan is a giant, population-wise. It comes in fifth, after China, India, the U.S. and Indonesia. Taken person-by-person, Pakistan should be in the big leagues. Instead, Pakistan is a...
by Katharyn Nicolle | Mar 12, 2013 | Monitor
by Magnus Newth In an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment on Tuesday March 5, Pakistani nuclear physicists Zia Mian and Pervez Hoodhboy discussed the subjects of a newly released essay collection, Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out. The...
by Andrew Holland | Feb 26, 2013 | Monitor
The Bangladesh-India border fence This morning, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific held a hearing on the importance of South Asia in the U.S. ‘Rebalance” to Asia. Joseph Yun, the State Department’s acting...