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A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, has adopted an intriguing concept, the J curve, to aid in explaining what should be the correct political and diplomatic responses to a number of countries around the world.
Economists usually come across [...]

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QUESTION: How close is Iran to getting an actual weapon?
UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH: An actual weapon? I mean, it of course is going to depend on the first two. I mean, this is a sequence. One has to acquire the technical expertise and the knowledge to move to the development and then [...]

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Pakistan has acquired the capability of developing its own nuclear submarine, a media report claimed today.
”Pakistani scientists and the engineers have developed indigenous technology for building the nuclear submarines at the existing facilities,” The News reported.

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Beijing Hedges against the Rise of India
Although China and India have announced that their relationship is important enough to “reshape the world,”[1] Beijing views its increasingly important ties with Delhi as a means to manage India’s growing strength. China has combined traditional strategic balancing and diplomatic engagement in an effort to set [...]

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UNITED NATIONS Taiwan’s allies accused China of expanding its arsenal of missiles aimed at Taiwan in readiness for an invasion and urged the United Nations to step in and promote a peaceful dialogue between the two parties.
China retorted Thursday that the Taiwan issue is an internal matter — not one for the [...]

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Trials of the latest Bulava missiles ended in failure yesterday. Because of attempts to save time and money on the tests, one of the most ambition projects to increase Russia’s nuclear might may be scrapped indefinitely. News of the failure was received half an hour after the launch of a new Bulava [...]

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Russia is going to build from 42 to 58 atomic power units for its own needs and 40-50 units abroad during 30 years, RIA Novosti quotes Rosatom head Sergey Kirienko as saying. According to him, Russia is having negotiations with the world leading companies in atomic machine-building about construction of a joint [...]

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Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) President David Albright testified that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials have not yet been able to question Khan directly and “key questions remain unanswered”, Eben Kaplan said in the newsletter published Thursday.
Leonard Weiss, an independent non-proliferation expert, told Congress: “At least some parts of [...]

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Exclusive: the world is “doomed,” Jordan’s King Abdullah II tells TIME, if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not solved by 2007
As the 44-year-old monarch settled into a stuffed sofa for a 1-hour TIME interview for a story to appear in the coming week’s magazine, he drew a dark picture of a region consumed [...]

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants his government to cooperate with the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, even in use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, Efe reported.

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ANKARA In 2002, when Tuncer Kilinc, the secretary general of Turkey’s powerful National Security Council, said that the country should abandon its efforts to become a member of the European Union and turn toward its regional neighbors Russia and Iran, few Turks took him seriously.
Four years later, Kilinc’s proposition does not look [...]

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Not yet, but it may soon be irrelevant.
It is now becoming trite to write of the American military “failure” in Iraq. But recently this purported setback has been lumped together with the Israeli problems in southern Lebanon to suggest an end to the long dominance of the Western Way of war — [...]

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