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It was the gaffe heard around the globe. Last November, just two days after Barack Obama's historic election victory, the world's collective jaw dropped when Silvio Berlusconi quipped that the next U.S. President was "young, handsome and even has a good tan." Though the Italian Prime Minister refused...
As empires dissolved into nation-states, these spectacles of power swapped their air of mysticism for a more tangible tone of aggression. The military parade entered the modern era with the crack Prussian army, famed for its lockstep discipline. Armies around the world copied the German kingdom's methods of...
If the talks were a win for Obama, the same could be said for Iran's President Ahmadinejad, who plainly intends to use the process to reinforce his legitimacy in the wake of Iran's June 12 election debacle. Indeed, Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said on Thursday that the...
Solana hailed the level of participation by the U.S. at Geneva, which clearly represented a break from the narrow terms on which the Bush Administration had backed the European-led diplomacy. Whereas William Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, had been restricted from delivering much more than prepared...
Relations between Karzai and his Western backers deteriorated significantly over the past couple of years, particularly after the onset of the Obama Administration. Instead of stinging Karzai into cleaning up his act, public criticism from Washington enabled him to set himself up as a leader at odds with the U.S...