The Non-Aligned Movement has ended its meeting in Iran. The NAM represents about two-thirds of the membership of the United Nations, so one would think that it would receive a great deal of press coverage. Such is not the case. The NAM voted unanimously today to support Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy, a sharp repudiation to the position taken by the US and some other members of the UN Security Council. But you have to read the article in the Washington Post very carefully in order to find out that this decision was made.
One of the basic tenets of classical realism is that human nature is inherently aggressive. There is some evidence upon which this claim is made, but there is an increasing amount of evidence that human beings are also inherently cooperative. The BBC reports on one such bit of evidence and the experiment upon which it is based.
Lots of people watched the Republican national convention, not all of them Americans. The Russians, in particular, were not at all pleased by what they interpreted as Governor Romney’s hostile comments. It was also striking that for the first time in my memory the Presidential candidate of a major party did not mention any of the wars in which American soldiers are currently participating.
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