Category: Emergence Media

  • US and the New Allies?

    As in update to my previous posting “Barnett’s Path to a U.S. Grand Strategy in Three Paragraphs“, Curzon at “Coming Anarchy” has an excellent post (”The New Allies”): The United Kingdom is our main ally inside the EU. Althouh a part of the union, Britain does not use the Euro and emphasizes the “one market”…

  • Barnett’s Path to a U.S. Grand Strategy in Three Paragraphs

    Too many people are stuck in the old ways of thinking, be it ideaologues like neoconservatives to International ANSWER or jingoism of the Anti-China folks. Thomas Barnett is not one of them. In his blog posting today, Thomas Barnett succinctly offers a very different perspective and game plan on what the U.S. must pursue to…

  • UN Reform by Competition?

    Introduction Koffi Annan’s push for UN reform has come and gone. Indeed, as the Washington Post reported last week, there are already moves to push for candidates as Annan retires on December 2005. But it’s unlikely that Koffi Annan can make any reforms in his remaining tenure; and indeed, it must be said that it…

  • Al-Qaida, Salafi, Islamist – What’s in a Name? (A Quick Post)

    NAZI! Communists! Hippies! Its easy to hate and focus on someone when you have a nice quick, short name for them. Lashing out against “Nationalist Socialist”, “Total Socialist System under Centralized Planning” and “Free Spirited non-Conformist” is not easy to do. (And yes, I know some of my descriptions are not absolutely accurate and I…

  • Netwar’s Border Nightmare: Mexican Narco State?

    Introduction A week back, John Robb did a concise overview of Moises Naim’s Illict: “Moises copiously documents how globalization and rampant interconnectivity has led to the rise of vast global smuggling networks….He shows how these networks make money through an arbitrage of the differences between the legal systems (and a desire to prosecute) of our…

  • Turkey Weekend Reading: James Fellows’s Article, Kazakhstan v. Iran, China Military Bases

    Howdy All Y’All…Happy Thanksgiving Day. Here’s quick Weekend Reading…just in case you need a break from all that turkey and gravy. By the way, I’ve been doing some light posting this past two weeks, but I’ll start going back to the normal beat of things soon. OxBlog on Jame’s Fellow’s “Why Iraq Has No Army”…

  • Economic: Immigration, Jobs and Polish Plumbers

    Polish Plumbers: Handsome and Good for the Economy? From the BBC: The “Polish Plumber” was the catch-phrase of the French “Non” referendum on the constitution, and later became a tongue-in-cheek slogan for the Polish tourist board. Out of all the arguments against immigration, economic fears – from “natives” losing their jobs to wage depression –…

  • Events in Context: Paris Riots and SAFTA

    While abating (only 400+ cars burning a night), the Paris Riots continue passing a two-week milestone. As I have mentioned, the rioters use of blogs and sms-texting for coordination and planning have been a demonstration of “netwar” on a small scale. Many have taken the next logical step and declare the Paris Riots as another…

  • Veterans Day, November 11 – Support the Troops!

    It is on this day that the Great War (World War I) ended and so everyone thought all wars would come to an end. And, it is for this day we commemorate Veteran’s Day. But, unfortunately, wars are still being fought…and now we are fighting in the Global War on Terrorism (Or the “Long War”…

  • Obesity- More than a Health Threat?

    StrategyUnit Note: Finally a posting that only mentions France for its take on food, not immigration or riots. ——————————— Source Introduction One of my favorite dishes is steak tartar (raw ground beef with raw egg and spices). I know its probably not healthy nor safe – but I accept responsibility for whatever happens. That’s the…