On November 28th 2011, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani vowed that there would be no return to "business as usual" in his country's relationship with the United States, following an unexplained NATO air strike that took the lives of more than 25 Pakistani soldiers the previous weekend....

In November 2011, President Barack Obama travelled to the APEC Summit in Honolulu, then visited Australia, and finally the Asian Economic Summit in Bali. Declaring that "the United States is a Pacific nation", the President told audiences that he planned to repoint US foreign policy in the direction of the Asia Pacific.

On October 31 2011, the United States announced that it would no longer fund UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.  The move followed a vote by UNESCO members to offer grant the Palestinians membership in the UN-body.   The US maintains that membership of UNESCO, and other UN bodies, should only be offered to the...

Simon's Emmy-award winning television coverage is seen regularly by millions of viewers worldwide, and his reporting has spanned the globe over the past 25 years. In May 2010, Simon covered the British General Election that led to the formation of the historic coalition between the Conservatives' David Cameron and the Liberal-Democrats' Nick Clegg......

On October 20th 2011, the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured by forces loyal to the country’s National Transitional Council, and then killed.   Simon provided compelling coverage for a variety of TV and radio networks. His immediate analysis of developments in Libya aired on dozens of radio stations worldwide: Once news of the Gaddafi...

Simon regularly serves as the anchor for fictional news channel “GNN”, and its “news bulletins” serve as the basis for a series of executive simulations that allow policymakers in the United States to react to hypothetical crises and explore the options that would be at their disposal should those crises ever occur. In this simulation,...