Pakistan

Resurgence of the coup d’état

October 13, 2011

Joshua Kurlantzick, a Fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an piece in The National on the rise of the coup d’état: Across the developing world, from Thailand to Pakistan, militaries have become more politically powerful in recent years. Indeed, in many Middle Eastern nations, armies will be determining the future [...]

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Military Rule 2.0

July 12, 2010

A Council on Foreign Relations fellow and researcher on the increasing power of the military in developing nations in today’s Boston Globe: Call it military rule 2.0. And as a result, in many developing countries the military is more powerful than it has been in years. Thailand, where the military once seemed to have retreated [...]

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Banned from military service and the death penalty

May 30, 2010

Esquire magazine takes a look at the statistics of countries that ban gays from serving in the military and that also embrace the death penalty. Cuba, along with 16 other countries (see above infographic), ban homosexuals from serving in the military and also execute people. The others are: China, Egypt, Iran, Jamaica, Nigeria, North Korea, [...]

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