It’s a strange thing, being a hater. It becomes increasingly hard to distinguish one’s visceral reactions to pseudo-analytical drivel from reasoned disagreement. Such is the situation in which I found myself this morning when this came down the pipe. BLUF: Friedman wishes the President best of luck in the West’s latest military intervention. Solid. Here’s the catch. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
The fight for Libya gains a moustache.
Posted in Policy, tagged Africa, realism, security on 30 March 2011 | 1 Comment »
More thoughts on Collier
Posted in Policy, tagged Africa, Collier, economy, governance, human rights on 10 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My previous post contained little more than an overview of Paul Collier’s recent talk at the U.S. Africa Command, but I wanted to return to a few of the implications it seemed to contain. Whereas Collier emphasized the centrality of managing specific economic processes to the future stability/prosperity of African societies, I wonder about the [...]
Paul Collier at AFRICOM
Posted in Policy, tagged Africa, AFRICOM, Collier, economy, governance, security on 4 March 2010 | 2 Comments »
This afternoon, I had the opportunity to swing across town to the not uncontroversial U.S. Africa Command for a lecture given by Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and someone who understands substantially more about African governance and economic arrangements than most of us ever will. I don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but considering [...]