Sir – International organisations should think carefully about imposing conditions on the distribution of aid to the people of Aceh in Indonesia and of the Tamil areas of eastern and north-eastern Sri Lanka, who have suffered the violence of bloody civil wars as...
After the Tsunami: The international community in the conflict zones of Indonesia and Sri Lanka Initially, many observes were hopeful that, at least in the short term, the decadelong civil wars in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, would be ‘suspended’ in the...
By Graham Bowley, International Herald Tribune FRINTON-ON-SEA, England One afternoon this week, Jeffrey Titford, who has a Union Jack flag on a pole in his garden, stared out to sea and blamed the European Union for most things that have gone wrong in recent years in...
Published in Foreign Policy in January 2004, this short piece engages with the debate over the newly assertive foreign policy conducted by Germany under the “red-green” coalition.