David Bosco

NC: Do the Kosovars- or, for that matter, the Bosnians- want a U.S. presence?

From Argentina to Zambia, investment firms are snatching up the poor world’s debt. To turn a buck, they sue, harass, and otherwise claw their way into making debtor states pay. Poverty activists say these so-called vulture funds are preying on the impoverished. But they’re only doing what the international financial system can’t—holding corrupt and irresponsible regimes to account.

Not only is NATO forfeiting the intelligence benefits that can come with real-time interrogation, it's sending detainees into an Afghan prison system poorly equipped to handle them and rife with abuse.

David Bosco reviews Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

I was looking for a different kind of armed man—soldiers from the emerging Afghan National Army.

"I think the elections in Afghanistan and the elections in Iraq have given the U-S some credibility at the United Nations that it had lost for some time. So I think the current state is 'cautious coexistence'."

Novi mandat predsjednika Busha u Bijeloj kući i američka politika prema Balkanu tema su o kojoj je Omer Vatrić, iz Glasa Amerikeu Fondaciji za medjunarodni mir Carnegie u Washingonu, razgovarao sa Davidom Boscom, ekspertom za Balkan, mirovne misije, uspostavu novih država, izbjeglice, i medjunarodno pravo.

"Ti su odnosi danas u daleko boljem stanju, nego što su bili neposredno pred rat i neposredno poslije rata u Iraku. Mislim da su izbori u Iraku i Afganistanu dali Sjedinjenim Državama odredeni kredibilitet u Ujedinjenim narodima, koji su ranije izgubile. Danas su odnosi u fazi "oprezne koegzistencije."

A new war crimes court in Sarajevo struggles to find its way.

David Bosco on the uncertain fate of judicial reform in Chile, a decade after the return of democracy.