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...threat to cut off U.S. aid to impoverished Nicaragua if Ortega won - backfired miserably, actually helping boost the Sandinista leader to his first-round victory. That such U.S. pressure tends to work in favor of its opponents is a lesson Washington seems woefully unable to learn in a post-Cold War Latin America whose electorates have unexpectedly turned leftward in recent years...
...harder side" of peacemaking. "We're going into [the Taliban's] yard," says Brigadier General Fraser, who commanded the Mechanized Brigade Group in Edmonton, Alta., before his assignment to Afghanistan. "We're going to start kicking them." Those were unfamiliar messages for Canadians accustomed to seeing themselves in the post-cold war world as benign peacekeepers. And it has enraged critics who say the Afghan enterprise was wrongheaded from the start. "Trying to stabilize an environment like Afghanistan isn't doable in a war-fighting situation," says Peggy Mason of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Ottawa. "The government...
First, Eliot, now Lowell, and before long, likely Quincy. In a post-Cold War example of the Domino Effect, it seems inevitable that River Houses which have not yet adopted interhouse dining restrictions will soon fall in line. Lowell’s announcement last week that it would adopt interhouse restrictions is the feather that broke the broccoli chicken’s back. The new rules will send hungry freshmen and quadlings to the last bastions of free eating by the River—overcrowding them and provoking more restrictions in turn. In the past, we have advocated a free...
...engage with a growing share of the international community that no longer deems it necessary to subordinate their own interests to Washington's, nor to assume that the two are one and the same. French foreign policy think tanks have long promoted the goal of ?multipolarity? in a post-Cold War world, i.e. the preference for many different, competing power centers rather than the ?unipolarity? of the U.S. as a single hyper-power. Multipolarity is no longer simply a strategic goal. It is an emerging reality...
...acclaimed author discusses his new book Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West. Hear him speak on the post-Cold War geopolitical, political and existential problem. Sponsored by the Harvard Book Store. 6:30 p.m. Free. Starr Auditorium in the Belfer Building of the Kennedy School...