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  johnpi 1:46 am on January 13, 2010 | 6 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: diplomacy (6), international affairs, international relations (188), Israel (350), Turkey (65)

  

  Turkey demands Israeli apology for petty public humiliation of its ambassador as ties worsen.

  Turkey summoned Israel’s ambassador to Ankara Tuesday to demand an apology over the treatment of its own envoy to Tel Aviv as a row between the regional allies over a television drama series escalated.

  Israel’s ire had been sparked by the broadcast of an episode of the Turkish espionage drama, Valley of the Wolves, which the foreign ministry said depicted “Israel and Jews as baby-snatchers and war criminals.”
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  Rather than summoning Celikkol to the ministry as is the norm, Ayalon saw him in his parliamentary office after making him wait in the corridor and telling staff to remove the Turkish flag and refreshments from the table.

  “The important thing is that people see that he’s sitting low down and we’re high and that there is one flag,” Israeli television aired Ayalon telling invited photographers and camera crews in Hebrew.

   

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  johnpi 11:44 pm on January 6, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: business (19), economy (35), flying (6), flying while muslim (24), international affairs, international relations (188), lebanon (24), Pakistan (568), saudi arabia (135), Terrorism (399)

  Responses in the national medias of countries that are on the new list of states whose citizens will receive heightened security attention entering the US in the wake of the Flight 253 attack.

  Pakistan:

  In forcing the administration to be reactive and blindly discriminatory in the aftermath of the bombing attempt, Al Qaeda may have scored an even more significant ideological victory than would have been afforded by an attack on a plane.

  Lebanon:

  [Quoting an American analyst] “The vast majority of the Lebanese have nothing, and want nothing, to do with terrorism. And we should want them and welcome them here in the United States,” he said.

  Saudi Arabia:

  The extra check means, he said [Abdul Rahman Al-Zamil, president of the Riyadh-based Export Development Center], Saudi companies would not be able to send their executives and representatives to the US easily.

  “No doubt, the new measures will also affect delegations that play a big role in boosting trade ties,” he said.

  Al-Zamil said most countries would avoid participation in exhibitions or conferences in the US in order to avoid a possibility of their officials and representatives being harassed and getting into trouble in the US.

  “This measure is going to affect major projects in the Kingdom, as some products related to these projects are being manufactured in the US and engineers from Saudi Arabia have to go there to inspect them. Importing these products from other countries will affect the standards set by the projects,” he pointed out.

   
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  johnpi 10:58 am on December 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 'coalition of the willing', abkhazia (3), china (83), international affairs, international relations (188), nauru, palau, russia (44), south ossetia (2), taiwan, US foreign policy (62)

  When the US wanted to put together a phony ‘coalition of the willing’ it turned to tiny rent-a-nations like Palau. When the Russians wanted to do the same thing with the piece they carved out of Georgia, they trot out sovereign entities such as the island nation of Nauru.

  Impoverished Nauru, all 21 square kilometers of it, used to make its money from selling phosphates derived from sea bird droppings. When fossilised guano ran low, it established itself as a tax haven and dabbled in money-laundering. More recently, it has earned money by acting as a detention centre for refugee ‘boat people’ making the perilous journey across the Pacific to seek asylum in Australia.

  Struggling to stave off total destitution, Nauru has also developed its own special form of ‘guano diplomacy’. In 2002, it derecognised Taiwan in return for a $150 million ‘aid’ package from China. This week, it recognised both Abkhazia and South Ossetia after reportedly securing some $50 million of Russian ‘aid’.

   
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  razib, murtad fitri 3:37 pm on April 4, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: international affairs, Pakistan (568)

  ny times magazine, Can Pakistan Be Governed?

   
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  razib, murtad fitri 4:06 pm on January 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: culture (71), international affairs

  Revolution, Facebook-Style.

   
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  thabet 1:45 pm on May 31, 2008 | 2 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: international affairs, Iraq (195), united states (576)

  Iraqi clerisy call for referendum on proposal to indefinitely station US troops in Iraq.