Interviews

@Diego_Arria in the Latin America Advisor Our editor Ambassador @Diego_Arria spoke to the Latin America Advisor about a possible presidential candidacy of Leopoldo Lopez in Venezuela. Question: The Costa Rica-based Inter- American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) last month cleared oppo- sition l...
Diego Arria: What Would Happen if Chávez Couldn't Finish His Term? Our editor, Diego Arria, was interviewed by the Latin America Advisor, a publication of the Inter-American Dialogue organization. Question: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced June 30 in a televised address that he is being treated for cancer ...
How to defeat dictators in Africa The below is an interview conducted by Thor Halvorssen with Ghanaian economist George Ayittey, who attended the Oslo Freedom Forum in May this year. Thor Halvorssen: How pervasive is dictatorship in Africa today? George Ayittey : Africa has more dic...
Ambassador Sacirbey: I miss the Bono kiss Finally, we got hold of Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey and spoke to him regarding the photo we published yesterday revealing his rather unusually friendship with U2 singer, Bono. Just to remind everybody, Mr. Sacirbey was caught on tape French kissing Bono, ...
Noam Chomsky on the place of human rights in U.S. foreign policy Below is the 3rd part of our interview with the leading U.S. foreign policy intellectual, Prof. Noam Chomsky. In this part Mr. Chomsky comments on the place of human rights in the U.S. foreign policy and he continues his reflections on the rise of China. ...
Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey: Dayton 15 years after Our contributor, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, gave an interview to Euronews.net portal. Mr. Sacirbey shared his reflections about the Dayton Peace Accords and the impact of the peace treaty on Bosnia's current state of affairs and its future. The below is...
Interview with Diego Arria Diego Arria, one of our editors, gave an interview to the “Cambridge Student” gazette, a student body’s newspaper at Cambridge University. Mr. Arria discussed his diplomatic experience at the United Nations and the idea behind the creation of a moda...
Leadership in genocide times: Saving even one life was important Before the upcoming 15th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords we did an interview with Muhamed Sacirbey, the former Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina and also its Ambassador to the United Nations during the war time of the 90’s. Mr. Sacirbey...
President Komorowski's EU agenda Poland’s newly elected President Bronisław Komorowski gave an interview to Euronews.net about his foreign policy agenda and challenges Poland faces ahead after the tragic death of late President Lech Kaczyński, who died in a plane crash on April 10. K...
International Court for Chavez? Gladys Bensiomon of the HBR Production Company interviewed our editor, Diego Arria, about a number of issues regarding his political activity in Venezuela and his broader endeavors to unite international opinion against the regime of Hugo Chavez. The HB...
PMBComments: Chavez's BBC interview Below you will find link to BBC Hardtalk interview with Hugo Chavez. It is hard to figure out who among his acolytes recommended that he grant an interview to the hardest hitting interviewer around. Stephen Sackur's face is worth watching as he is about t...
Diego Arria spoke to El País Our editor, Diego Arria, gave an interview to El País, the most widely circulated newspaper in Spain, about political situation in his country, Venezuela. In his interview Mr. Arria said that "a few days ago, when I was asked what is going to happen in...
President Medvedev on nuclear summit, U.S. health care reform, death of Lech Kaczynski Russian President Dmitri Medvedev gave an interesting interview to Russia Today TV about the U.S. health care reform, place of President Obama in American history, nuclear summit, the Katyn massacre and death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski. The...
Wess Mitchell: Obama and the Eastern Frontier Interview with Mr. Wess Mitchell, a foreign policy expert and the Director of Research at the Center for European Policy Analysis – a Washington-based think tank analyzing international relations in Central and Eastern Europe and the U.S. foreign pol...
Charles W. Ingrao: There is evidence of Holbrooke's deal Interview with Prof. Charles W. Ingrao of the Purdue University’s Department of History, the head of the Scholar’s Initiative: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies. * * * Sebastian Aulich: One of the defenses Karadzic has already made is that th...
Florence Hartmann: Behind Curtains of International Justice Interview with Mrs. Florence Hartmann, former spokesperson of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in the Hague and author of the book “Peace and Punishment” in which she describes the mechanisms and politics influencing the ...
Pierre Prosper: We are all equal. Interview with Mr. Pierre Richard Prosper, former war crimes prosecutor at the U.N. Tribunal for Rwanda and former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2001-2005). Sebastian Aulich: I read an article in “San Francisco Chronicle” from 200...