A conflagration looms in south Asia as Pakistan gears towards protracted warfare

CSMS Magazine staff writers With more than 1.5 million people on the move in Northwest Pakistan, fleeing a blistering offensive against the Taliban and an attempt to raise more than a billion dollars for a sustained war, the regime in Islamabad intends...

Behind the UN debate on North Korea: growing Great Power rivalry

By Peter SymondsDespite intense pressure from the Bush administration for tough sanctions against North Korea over Monday’s nuclear test, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council have not yet reached any agreement.    The US, backed...