Last week I spoke with Vanda Felbab-Brown of Brookings about gangsters, pirates, insurgents, and weak states. Here we talk a bit about the violence of the Mexican drug cartels:Vanda also has a paper on the Mexican drug cartels from Brookings that's worth your valuable time.
Author: Robert Farley
...to go after a fraudulent religion just because it comes from the United States:The Church of Scientology's French branch went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud, in.
Performance this year notwithstanding, this is a beautiful picture for any Mariner fan:
The catchy title is intended to obscure the fact that I have nothing useful to say on North Korea's second nuclear test. Seems to have gone better than the first one. Will probably make the Japanese even more twitchy.
Feng at ID highlights two new bits of data on China's aircraft carrier program. The first is that the Chinese have carried out significant work on the ex-Varyag, the Kuznetsov.
I'm sure that the Chinese just arrived independently at the idea of having a folding-wing version of the Su-27:Russia is eyeing China following media reports that an unlicensed variant of.
Friday Cat Blogging... Stromboli
I'm sure that everyone has seen this, but that doesn't make it less awesome:Gates:Any soldier who goes into battle against the Taliban in pink boxers and flip-flops has a special.
Apparently the site isn't opening in Explorer, or at least isn't opening for some people (I don't seem to have a problem on my laptop, but do on my desktop)..
From Wonk Room, the economic impact of an alcohol tax:- 35 percent of adults pay nothing at all.- 80 percent of drinkers pay at most $26.50 per year, about 7¢ per day.- Half of beer drinkers pay at most a penny a day.- The heaviest...
Upon my return from Seattle, I found this from Dana Goldstein:Rybczynski claims that only six American cities have downtowns dense enough for a mass transit-dependent lifestyle: New York (midtown and.
Over the past several weeks, a number of international relations scholar-bloggers have set forth lists of films suitable for use in an IR course. Unfortunately, most of these lists have.