Triangulating against the left to deprive it of campaign talking points while keeping a wary eye on the new euroskeptic party, one that could theoretically end up being a coalition partner.
Merkel’s election-year austerity dance
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Thorny questions for Australia after intelligence agency plans hacked
Balancing its economic (trade) imperatives with the need to project power and respond forcefully to aggression from neighbors like China.
Successful drone strike offers little respite to Obama
Less than week after his speech promising new rules for drone attacks, an early Wednesday killing could cause an uproar at home and abroad.
Cash-strapped France sells presidential wines
France unveiled a surprising initiative to raise money: sell vintage bottles of wine from the Elysee Palace’s cellar.
West welcomes Mali summer elections, but obstacles loom
Significant logistical challenges threaten the prospects of a fair and peaceful election, i.e., how to register Mali’s hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced citizens.
U.S. steps up military planning as McCain visits Syria
The steady drumbeat for military intervention continues as the Pentagon reportedly draws up plans for a no-fly zone.
Mixed messages at Moscow security conference
Clinging to the enemies (and conventional arms build-up) of the Cold War while increasingly cognizant of the modern terror threat.
Toronto mayor crack cocaine saga continues as P.M. Harper lays low
The outrageous (and irresistible) story of Rob Ford’s alleged crack use could be helping keep the prime minister’s own (less salacious) scandal from causing more harm.
Stockholm riots set off political finger pointing
The unrest may have shocked many in a country known for high living standards and liberal immigration policies, but the events of the last few days have nonetheless been easily incorporated into existing policy critiques across the political spectrum.
Obama promises to rein in the U.S. terror war machine
But most notably of all, the president offered an overarching narrative for the foreign policy of the past few years and urged restraint ahead, while simultaneously reaching out to regain the trust of his base of liberals.
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