Comments on: 10 Things I Know about Susan Rice, Obama’s Pick for Ambassador to the United Nations http://www.panasianbiz.com/all-about-america/10-things-i-know-about-susan-rice-obamas-pick-for-ambassador-to-the-united-nations/ India, China, Japan, Bollywood, Sports, Live Cricket Streaming Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:04:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Emily Ng http://www.panasianbiz.com/all-about-america/10-things-i-know-about-susan-rice-obamas-pick-for-ambassador-to-the-united-nations/comment-page-1/#comment-5832 Emily Ng Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:00:58 +0000 http://www.panasianbiz.com/2008/12/10-things-i-know-about-susan-rice-obamas-pick-for-ambassador-to-the-united-nations/#comment-5832 The stress on post-conflict reconstruction in Susan Rice's own expertise, and in the general Obama approach to foreign and security policy, is very timely, and not only because of Afghanistan and Iraq. Some interesting sites on this include: http://www.csis.org/isp/pcr/ http://www.iiss.org/conferences/global-strategic-review/global-strategic-review-2008/keynote-address/ and across the pond - http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/ At this time when Keynes is flavor of the month in economic policy, it's interesting to think how far our approach to post-conflict reconstruction has come since, at and after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, he had to argue against a veangeful "peace" (on this, see J M Keynes, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", 1919, and D Markwell, "John Maynard Keynes and International Relations", 2006). The stress on post-conflict reconstruction in Susan Rice’s own expertise, and in the general Obama approach to foreign and security policy, is very timely, and not only because of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Some interesting sites on this include:

http://www.csis.org/isp/pcr/

http://www.iiss.org/conferences/global-strategic-review/global-strategic-review-2008/keynote-address/

and across the pond – http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/

At this time when Keynes is flavor of the month in economic policy, it’s interesting to think how far our approach to post-conflict reconstruction has come since, at and after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, he had to argue against a veangeful “peace” (on this, see J M Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, 1919, and D Markwell, “John Maynard Keynes and International Relations”, 2006).

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