World Politics Review

Leading Indicators: Off-the-Radar News Roundup


By Judah Grunstein | 09 Mar 2010

- Turkey's Interior Ministry is training the Sudanese police force in anticipation of the country's April elections. Sudan has been one of the problematic areas of Turkey's maverick "open arms" foreign policy orientation, but this seems like an area where even that could deliver some payoff.

- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov seems pretty convinced the START follow-on nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will include a "legally binding" link to missile defense. I'm pretty convinced that's the kind of treaty that won't make it past the Senate. ...