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Nawaz Offers Views on Changing Pakistani Perceptions of U.S.
Shuja Nawaz, Director of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, was interviewed on The Takeaway morning radio news program on the Pakistan flood situation. The discussion focused on the U.S. being the single largest donor of aid, and the potential for Pakistanis to shift their perceptions of America. Nawaz insists that the U.S. should stay the course with aid to Pakistan, but warns of the long-term effects of America's goodwill, stating that "changing image takes a long time."
Nancy Walker Addresses U.S. Africa Command Conference
Dr. Nancy J. Walker, Director of the Ansari Africa Center, gave the keynote address at Africa Command’s Senior Leader Offsite Conference in Starnberg, Germany on August 26, 2010.
South Asia Center's Shikha Bhatnagar Spotlighted
Shikha Bhatnagar's recent appointment as Associate Director of the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council, is yet another manifestation of a growing trend of second generation Indian Americans' advent into leading Washington, DC think tanks as senior policy analysts and associates.
Chuck Hagel Discusses START Ratification on RussiaToday
Atlantic Council Chairman Chuck Hagel was interviewed for RussiaToday on delays in ratification of the START treaty in both the U.S. and Russia.
FEATURED ISSUE
In August the sunny calm and quiet that is a Swedish summer will be shattered by the impact of Joint Direct Attack Munitions dropped by F-16CM Fighting Falcons from US Air Force Europe.
Euro Drops Ever So Slightly After Bailout Rejection
James Joyner | March 02, 2009
One has to love headline writers. YahooNews titles an AFP story "Euro drops against dollar after EU rejects bailout." That got my attention, obviously, so I read further.
The euro fell sharply against the dollar on Monday after European Union leaders ruled out a regional bailout plan for Eastern Europe at a weekend summit, analysts said. The dollar also won support from sliding stock markets and downbeat eurozone manufacturing data ahead of a widely-expected interest rate cut later this week from the European Central Bank (ECB), they added.
In late morning trading in London, the euro fell to 1.2603 dollars from 1.2671 late on Friday.
Against the Japanese currency, the dollar sank to 97.21 yen from 97.65 yen on Friday.
So . . . the dollar went up by a fraction so small as to amount to a rounding error and it's news? Complete with cause and effect?
Here, according to Exchange-Rate.org, is the fluctation in the exchange rate over the last 30 days:
The last 90 days:
The last year:
So, the rate has been as low as 1.24 in the last four months and as high as 1.60 in the last year. Surely, a fluctuation of seven thousandths of a dollar is nothing to write home about?
James Joyner is managing editor of the Atlantic Council.
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