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Reframing the Dinner Conversation Between the West and Pakistan
If Pakistan were a person, who would it be? Would it be Odysseus, undergoing a series of grueling tests in order to claim its true heroic identity? Would it be a hapless Sancho Panza, looking on with alarm as it's dragged into ruin by the misadventures of those around it?
Herman Winick accepts Sakharov Prize
At the 2010 April Meeting of the American Physical Society last week in Washington DC, SLAC physicist Herman Winick accepted the Andrei Sakharov Prize, given to a physicist for outstanding leadership and/or achievements in upholding human rights.
Lois Kazakoff: Global security depends on sharing scientific progress
Partisan feuding is undermining America's ability to use our leadership in science in technology to advance U.S. foreign policy and competitiveness.
Sarkozy’s Visit Ushers in a New Phase in Rwanda-France Relations
The planned visit to Rwanda by President Nicolas Sarkozy on February 26 - the first of its kind by a French head of state since the 1994 genocide - is expected to boost ties between the two countries whose diplomatic relations have remained unstable for years.
Obama and the Dalai Lama: Image Vs. Reality
But even though the meeting was held in the face of China's objections, the details were a delicately choreographed display of tiptoe diplomacy...
Strengthening relations with traditional partners
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong will pay official visits to India and Indonesia, starting on February 23, to promote friendship and cooperation in economics, trade and investment between Vietnam and these countries.
Negotiating with the Four Hardliners
If those who currently mistrust Syria, Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah were to actually embrace serious diplomatic negotiations based on the normal diplomatic toolkit of incentives and disincentives, progress is likely to happen, stresses Rami G. Khouri.
India’s belated turnaround
India has so far shown reluctance to agree to the Pakistani proposal that the old format of “composite dialogue” should be revived, but the last word has not yet been said.
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