Articles written by Guy Taylor
By Guy Taylor
13 Dec 2007 |
World Politics Review Exclusive
WASHINGTON - It remains unclear whether Congress will support the
Bush administration's request for an initial $550 million to help
Mexico and other Latin American countries beef up their law enforcement
and militaries in the fight against drug cartels and other organized
crime. The proposed aid package, known as the
"Merida Initiative," has been hailed by the White House and Mexican
President Felipe Calderón as "a new paradigm" of law enforcement relations between the United States
and Mexico.
By Guy Taylor
05 Dec 2007 |
World Politics Review Exclusive
WASHINGTON -- The sudden release this week of a U.S. intelligence
assessment that said Iran halted its nuclear weapons program some four
years ago appears to have deepened the rift between U.N. Security
Council members over whether the international community will continue
pursuing stiffer economic sanctions against Iran. In recent
weeks, Russia and China had shown signs that they were
leaning toward accepting new punitive measures toward Iran. But all that appears to have changed.
By Guy Taylor
12 Nov 2007 |
World Politics Review Exclusive
WASHINGTON -- Across the world, "America may be less well
regarded today than at any time in its history," according to a report
issued last week by a bipartisan group of politicians and foreign
policy experts. But "it is not too late to reverse these trends, even
in the Arab and Muslim World," the report found. The report calls on the next president to increase U.S. commitment to the United Nations, reinvigorate U.S. alliances, and change the perception that the U.S. ignores some international law.
By Guy Taylor
30 Oct 2007 |
World Politics Review Exclusive
WASHINGTON -- How did the world's most powerful body of lawmakers
come to feel compelled to register a position on atrocities committed against Armenians during the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, an event that happened
almost a century ago? By some accounts, the answer is simple: lobbying. Many observers claim that the Armenian lobby is one of the most powerful in Washington. Influential Armenian-Americans counter that Congress has taken up the issue because of morality, not politics.
By Guy Taylor
22 Sep 2007 |
WPR Blog
The China-U.S. big brother connection, dwindling opium crops and blossoming militaries of Asia, the eve of Lebanon's election and more.
By Guy Taylor
15 Sep 2007 |
WPR Blog
A year later in Mexico, Israeli jets fly over Syria, Bin Laden's new image, bin Laden at large, scarier than bin Laden and more.
By Guy Taylor
08 Sep 2007 |
WPR Blog
Iraq's future and the roles al-Qaida and the U.S. will play in it, terrorism and middle class apathy in India, and more.
By Guy Taylor
01 Sep 2007 |
WPR Blog
Headscarves and military uniforms. Benazir Bhutto is "out of touch," Abdullah Gul's election is "a joke," and more.
By Guy Taylor
17 Aug 2007 |
WPR Blog
Sarkozy's tax cut, race and politics in South Africa, the threat to Democracy in Ukraine and more.
By Guy Taylor
11 Aug 2007 |
WPR Blog
The World Bank's support for Iran, Plan Colombia, Mexico's drug mess and more.
By Guy Taylor
04 Aug 2007 |
WPR Blog
From Bush to Napoleon, Peru's crisis, Japan's historic election, and more.
By Guy Taylor
15 Jul 2007 |
WPR Blog
The dawn of a migration age, the end of communism in China, U.S. fears of a decapitating strike and more.
By Guy Taylor
10 Jul 2007 |
WPR Blog
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- From the fisticuffs that consumed an entire stadium to the regularity of teenage street brawls, anger erupts easily here.
By Guy Taylor
30 Jun 2007 |
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America's contract spies, Europe's second Muslim state, the political price of Asia's economic boom, the fate of Gordon Brown and more.
By Guy Taylor
23 Jun 2007 |
WPR Blog
The Qaddafi saga, "catastrophe" in Palestine, the branding of al Qaida, Chinese pollution, Nicaragua's Ortega and more.
By Guy Taylor
15 Jun 2007 |
WPR Blog
China's expanding military, Bhutan's democracy, Indonesia's desire to solve Middle East problems, South Africa's apartheid hang-over and more.
By Guy Taylor
08 Jun 2007 |
WPR Blog
Why China won't save Darfur, the U.S.-Russia blowup, the other side of Chávez's war on the press, a legal mess at Guantanamo and more.
By Guy Taylor
01 Jun 2007 |
WPR Blog
Combination punch to democracy in Asia, the "weakness" of Americans in Iraq, Brazil's sugar-cane revolution and more.
By Guy Taylor
31 May 2007 |
World Politics Review Exclusive
WASHINGTON -- The Iranian government formally charged three
American citizens as spies and propagandists this week, prompting vigorous reactions in Washington, first from the Bush administration,
then the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where one of
the Americans heads the Middle East Program. Calling
the detention of scholar Haleh Esfandiari "an affront to the rule of law and
common decency," Lee H. Hamilton, the Wilson Center's president and
director, said the "message to the Iranian government is simple: Let
Haleh go."
By Guy Taylor
25 May 2007 |
WPR Blog
Africa's secret prisons, Poland's "red ghosts," Thailand's constitutional crisis, Venezuela's media fight and more.
