Out of the Box Thinking on Pakistan…

…at Unqualified Reservations. You won’t read anything like it elsewhere.

Information Security and the Market-State

From SecurityFocus:
In June 2006, renowned legal expert Mark Rasch analyzed the proposal and suggested that it represents a dangerous trend of turning private companies into proxies for law enforcement or intelligence agencies against the interests of their clients or customers.
A transition to a Market-State from a Nation-State will not be easy. I am not sure [...]

Lessons for Fighting Terrorism from Fighting Pirates

Via REDDIT, Legal Affairs has an article titled The Dread Pirate Bin Laden:
What is needed now is a framework for an international crime of terrorism. The framework should be incorporated into the U.N. Convention on Terrorism and should call for including the crime in domestic criminal law and perhaps the jurisdiction of the International Criminal [...]

The UN Should Contract Out Dafur/Sudan PeaceKeeping to a Private Security Corporation

Via Real Clear Politics, Max Boot Writing in the LA Times says:
Pieces of paper, no matter how promising, require power in order to be enforced. The question is: Who will provide that power in Darfur? The African Union force deployed in 2004 has proven woefully inadequate. Its 7,000 soldiers lack the numbers, training and equipment [...]

USA version 3?

TDAXP has a post suggesting that Mexico (each Mexican state and the special Federal district as 32 new US states) join the USA:
America is a “melting pot,” in which cultures cannot be kept distinct and separate.
and
America (the United States of America) and Mexico (the Mexican United States) were both conceived as multinational [...]