New Foreign Policy. As I mentioned Friday, definitely check out the new Foreign Policy site, which relaunched today.

You can find (and bookmark) my reported daily, online column on foreign policy, The Cable. Today, I report on "transition purgatory," for those still in limbo about whether they will get a job in the new administration. "... But now, amid the information vacuum, conspiracy theories abound: 'It's Hillary's fault,' ... has been succeeded by 'It's Biden's fault,' referring to fears that prized White House slots will go to Biden loyalists and others from their network of Senate staffers rather than early members of Obama's foreign advisory teams. ..." My new colleague Stephen Walt argues that the names don't tell us as much as one might think.

On the site today: Former US Mideast envoy Aaron David Miller, author of one of the best recent books on US policy to the Mideast, The Too Much Promised Land, is blogging Gaza at one of the site's regular features, the Argument.

Veteran Washington Post Pentagon correspondent and "Fiasco" author Tom Ricks is blogging "the Best Defense" here.

Marc Lynch of Abu Aardvark fame today blogs Maliki in Tehran.

At Shadow Government, Philip Zelikow is blogging what Bush got wrong (and three things he got right.) ("Failure #2: Having developed a powerful diagnosis of global conditions and opportunities, the administration failed to develop a meaningful conception for global cooperation. ...") Other contributors, many out of the recent ranks of the Bush administration, to Shadow Government: Kori Schake, Steve Biegun, Peter Feaver, Vance Serchuk, etc., moderated by the "whip-smart" former Rice speechwriter and new Foreign Policy editor Christian Brose.

Counterinsurgency gurus ret. Ltn. Col. John Nagl and Nate Fick of the Center for a New American Security apply counterinsurgency lessons to Afghanistan.

NSC auteur David Rothkopf introduces his eponymous blog here, as do Dan Drezner and Stephen Walt.

Carolyn O'Hara rounds up Hillary news you might have missed at her blog, Madam Secretary. Joshua Keating is writing a daily morning brief news round up of international developments at FP's Passport.

Go check it out! Let me know what you think.

Posted by Laura at January 5, 2009 09:48 AM