Bad news from Nepal…

Did anybody not see this coming?
Barely two years after ending an armed insurgency that killed more than 13,000 people, Nepal’s former Maoists rebels have stunned themselves, the Nepalese people, and the world with a landslide win in constituent assembly elections that could profoundly change Nepali politics. [Link: Christian Science Monitor]
I LOL’d at this:
But concerns are [...]

Peace in Nepal?

Noblesse Oblige reports that:
The decades old Maoist insurgency in Nepal has now come to an end, at least on paper.
I certainly hope so.

I don’t think the Maoist see it that way though. This is just a step for them.

Nepal Update – Situation Getting Worse

Coming Anarchy has a reader update on the Situation in Nepal were a potential Communist take-over is gaining (I blogged on this earlier):
The idea that is floating around is that the Maoist are already so entrenched in all aspect of government that they cannot be stopped. It is said they are ready to replicate the [...]

The Two Theories of War

A long time ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a course called Problems In American Foreign Policy. I was not a Political Science major, but I gamed the system pretty well so I was able to take upper-level/grad Political Science courses for most of my social science electives [...]

Communists Gain in Nepal

The NY Times reports:
Nepal's new and increasingly assertive interim government detained five of the king's men on Friday, as a government-appointed commission set up to investigate the royal crackdown on pro-democracy protests last month recommended an even riskier step: suspending the country's security chiefs.
This will make the countering the Maoist (the NY Times doesn't want [...]