by Sam Roggeveen
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21 January 2010 12:48PM
- I've been waiting for an 'Obama's first year' retrospective that goes beyond a stale accounting of what he promised, what he achieved, and where he failed. George Packer's piece comes closest, though he says nothing about foreign policy.
- A new academic journal devoted to the study of North Korea's military.
- Due to budget cuts, the Royal Navy's flotilla was removed from the Carribean just weeks before the Haiti earthquake, 'the first time that the Royal Navy has had a significant gap in cover in the Caribbean since the 17th century.'
- A new Human Security Report has good news: global wartime mortality is decreasing.
- Indonesia's counter-terrorism efforts are also a good news story, says the Jamestown Foundation.
- Photos of some amazing national pavilions under construction for the Shanghai Expo.
- Update on an earlier post: The NY Times confirms it is putting up a paywall, from 2011.
- The top 10 technologies for tyranny.
- Japan policy blog Shisaku sets me straight on the China naval refuelling mission story I linked to on Monday.
