Month: March 2014

By Eliot Cohen | 10 August 2010 AI: Let's start with the Stanley McChrystal episode. What's your take on this? Why did the general act with such inexplicable tactlessness? Did President Obama,...

By Prof. Barry Rubin | 08 August 2010 This is one of those stories about the Middle East that is totally amazing but not the least bit surprising. What, you ask,...

Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 30 July 2010 All men may well be born equal but their deaths certainly betray huge inequalities. A month or so ago (24 June, to be precise), Michael...

By James Petras | 28 July 2010 "We are confronting a monster; a force that ridicules, deceives and wants to destroy us".   - Miguel Angel Ibara, member of the Mexican Electrical Workers...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 26 July 2010 Relations between Colombia and Venezuela appear to have hit a new low. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Venezuela's government following...

 By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 23 July 2010   Does the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence Resolve Anything? I always tell my students that,...

By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 18 June 2010   Ever since the Pentagon announced that it estimated Afghanistan to sit on around $1 trillion of minerals, including iron ore, copper, cobalt, gold,...

By Peter Berger | 22 July 2010 Israel was established as both a democratic and a Jewish state. Both qualities continue to be real enough. But there have been increasing tensions between...

By Walter Russell Mead | 23 July 2010 During the next two weeks I'll be visiting Pakistan at the invitation of the US Embassy there. I won't be there to toe the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 July 2010 Current public policy debates in Armenia and Azerbaijan over a possible Nagorno-Karabakh war are more acceptable to those who want to return to their homes...

By Peter Berger | 17 July 2010 A Chinese sage defined a wise person as one who sees things together which others see as apart. Writing a blog implies the presumption of at least...

By Alexander Christie-Miller | 17 July 2010 On the picturesque island of Buyukada in the Marmara Sea about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul, tourists climb a steep track through pine trees...

By Gregorio Bettiza | 05 July 2010 While conducting fieldwork in Washington DC this summer, I was struck by the many complaints about President Obama’s lack of interest in pursuing liberal values abroad. “Those working...

By Paul Hockenos | 02 July 2010 For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams...

By Walter Russell Mead | 23 June 2010 Most of the headlines that blare at us from newspaper pages and internet sites are noise.  Much of the breathless commentary that we get...