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...written two books on the conflict. "They've tried everything." The dispute began when the two countries won independence from Britain in 1947 and the Hindu ruler of Muslim-majority Kashmir chose to join India rather than Pakistan. That decision has never been accepted by Pakistan, and a de facto boundary, the Line of Control, divides Kashmir between them. India and Pakistan have fought two wars and countless skirmishes over the territory. Relations worsened when an insurgency broke out in Indian-held Kashmir 20 years ago. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable Northwest passage...
...Recent bellicose gestures by the Indian government and media remind me of the atmosphere after a 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. In the days following the attack, over 400,000 Indian and Pakistani troops were amassed on the volatile border . Level-headed diplomacy resulted in a de-escalation of this situation, and set the two countries on several years of peace talks. These negotiations have come a long way, to the extent where Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari recently told a conference in India that he foresaw a future where Indians and Pakistanis could cross...
...have been generally reluctant to take on any carbon-cutting obligations - long enough to lay down a rough outline of how negotiations, including the talks at Poznan, should proceed. The end goal is an actual agreement at the 2009 summit in Copenhagen, which has been cast as a de facto deadline for a new, hopefully more globally comprehensive Kyoto Protocol. (See the Top 10 green ideas of the year...
...also learned that there is a strong positive correlation between how red my face is and how many photos of me pop up on facebook the morning after, so no matter how sloshed I got, I always remembered to set my alarm to 8 a.m. to wake-up, de-tag, and promptly pass out on my keyboard...
...encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies on Friday. Throughout the day, Hoffmann’s former students and colleagues hailed him as the kind of professor who has perpetually prioritized teaching undergraduates above his research. Since 1955, Hoffmann has taught in Harvard’s government department and advised numerous...