Articles written by Guy Taylor
By Guy Taylor
09 Dec 2011 |
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With the European financial crisis dominating headlines, little attention has been given to the EU’s recently announced plan to send a team of police and security experts to North Africa to ramp up counterterrorism efforts against al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
By Guy Taylor
06 Dec 2011 |
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The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC after its Spanish acronym, has now been given an official stamp of approval from not just left-leaning heads of state, but leaders across the Latin American political spectrum.
By Guy Taylor
02 Dec 2011 |
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Will the Kyoto Protocol survive? Should climate change be a religious issue? Are wealthy nations delivering on financial promises to help the developing world promote positive environmental change? Such big questions dominated the collective mindset of thousands of delegates converging on Durban, South Africa, this week for the U.N.’s 17th annual global climate change talks.
By Guy Taylor
30 Nov 2011 |
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Increased U.S. funding to fight drugs and organized crime in Mexico and Central America has attracted fanfare. But the growing role being played by the U.S. military is flying largely under the radar, most notably now in Honduras.
By Guy Taylor
28 Nov 2011 |
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Reports that hundreds of Ethiopian troops accompanied by armored personnel carriers crossed the border into Somalia overlook the fact that Ethiopia never fully left Somalia after its violent and failed occupation of Mogadishu two years ago.
By Guy Taylor
22 Nov 2011 |
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The recent agreement by India and Pakistan to move toward a normalization of trade ties is a logical consequence to a gradual rapprochement between the two.
By Guy Taylor
18 Nov 2011 |
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Geopolitical tension between China and United States seemed to reach new heights this week with the U.S. announcing a new troop presence in Australia. But China’s own evolving posture is equally worthy of scrutiny as the strategic chess match between the two grows increasingly militarized.
By Guy Taylor
16 Nov 2011 |
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Australian analysts are split on whether the timing is right for their country to be cozying up to the U.S. military.
By Guy Taylor
15 Nov 2011 |
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The successful launch this week of a Russian spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians may have eased anxieties about the future of U.S. and Russian space programs, but the reprieve is likely temporary.
By Guy Taylor
10 Nov 2011 |
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The recent revelation that the DEA is operating several militarized commando squads in Latin America signals an apparent U.S. eagerness to begin using covert counternarcotics strategies honed in Afghanistan over the past decade in the Western Hemisphere.
By Guy Taylor
07 Nov 2011 |
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The recent arrival of a Chinese navy ship to the Caribbean exposes the delicate balance China is seeking between showing off its growing global military capability without triggering suspicion and alarm.
By Guy Taylor
03 Nov 2011 |
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Thailand’s worst flood crisis in decades has spawned a political battle now threatening the fragile government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who came to power this summer as the nation’s first female prime minister.
By Guy Taylor
02 Nov 2011 |
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The outcome of Colombia’s municipal elections last weekend paints the picture of a nation polarized between left-leaning pragmatists in urban centers and conservative elites clinging to countryside power.
By Guy Taylor
01 Nov 2011 |
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The recent emergence of an outspoken female candidate for the Egyptian presidency is triggering discussion about the plight of women in the nation’s political future.
By Guy Taylor
27 Oct 2011 |
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Germany's arrest of a married couple suspected of acting as a sleeper cell on behalf of Russian intelligence exposes an evolving challenge facing the Russian intelligence apparatus.
By Guy Taylor
26 Oct 2011 |
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The once-banned Tunisian Islamist party's dominance can best be explained by what Christopher Alexander, a leading Tunisia scholar and political scientist at Davidson College in North Carolina, calls the “cultural authenticity vote.”
By Guy Taylor
25 Oct 2011 |
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With Argentina's election now past, some observers are questioning how long President Cristina Kirchner can maintain subsidy-heavy policies supporting her nation’s growth and, more importantly, the positive public opinion that has come with it.
By Guy Taylor
20 Oct 2011 |
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Outside observers should take care not to read too deeply into the Israel-Hamas prisoner swap in the context of the wider conflict between Israel and Palestine.
By Guy Taylor
19 Oct 2011 |
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Some observers say joint U.S.-Philippines military drills
represent an obvious strategic move by Washington to counter
growing Chinese efforts to claim sovereignty over the South
China Sea.
By Guy Taylor
18 Oct 2011 |
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The deployment of 100 U.S. troops to advise in the fight against central
Africa's Lords Resistance Army has triggered speculation about the
precise role such troops will play and the extent to which they may
engage in combat without express congressional approval.