The Afghan Ministry of Justice has presented a revised version of a new law regulating marital affairs for the country’s Shi’ite minority. Many of its previous medieval provisions have been scrapped. No longer does it prescribe the frequency of sexual activity that Shi’ite women in Afghanistan would have had to observe, thus practically legalizing domestic [...]
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Afghanistan: A Victory for Women – A Defeat of Democracy?
Posted in Afghanistan, Health and Development, International Politics, Peace and Conflict on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Becoming a Diplomat: A Choice Unbecoming a Critical Mind?
Posted in International Politics, Peace and Conflict on July 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I recently gave a keynote speech at a high school in the Bronx, NY for which I had been asked to offer some reflections on the career choice of becoming a diplomat. Note that becoming a diplomat was in fact one of my professional aspirations. Upon joining the UN however, I found the reality of [...]
‘Let me tell you what to think’: Discourse and the Limits of Democracy
Posted in Development Theory, International Politics, Peace and Conflict on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The German pollster agency TNS Emnid recently broke the news that the majority (57%) of East German respondents among the total 1,208 Germans in all 16 federal states asked about their views of the bygone German Democratic Republic (GDR) agreed with the statement that the GDR ‘had more positive than negative aspects’ and that although [...]
UN: The Tragic Triviality of Dilettantism
Posted in International Politics, Peace and Conflict on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the most recent issue of Foreign Policy, Jacob Heilbrunn writes that Ban Ki-moon is ‘the Nowhere Man’ since he is nowhere to be seen on the global stage. He even calls Mr. Ban the ‘most dangerous Korean’, thus elevating him above Kim Jong Il, the little-understood ruler of the northern part of the divided [...]
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