Recently I’ve been reading more and more of Policy Options. I’m not a reading every issue (although I’m not trying to) but I am enjoying much of what I do get through. Going way back to the February issue there was an article by Robin Sears entitled “Canada in North America: From Political Sovereignty to [...]
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Firefox 3 pledge map vs. the Pentagon’s new map
What are the geopolitics of open source? To find out I thought it would be interested to see how Thomas Barnett’s map meshed with the Spread Mozilla Firefox 3 download pledge map. Some brief background for those not familiar with “The Pentagon’s New Map.” It is a map that sits at the heart of a [...]
Foreign Policy in Asia
This story is an interesting update on the growing links between the United States and India. The integration of India into the broad alliance of Western Democracies will probably be the most important geopolitical challenge and opportunity of the first half of the 21st century. Conservatives (or for IR geeks, Neorealists) will like it because [...]
Afghanistan – Exploding the mission
The Asia Times Online has reported that the United States and its NATO allies have been granted permission to hunt for the Taliban inside Pakistan. This is a dramatic change in the mission. The upside is significant. Extending the use of force into Pakistan denies the Taliban a safe haven from which to prepare and [...]
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