Month: March 2014

Yigal Schleifer   The once-vital relationship between Turkey and Israel is going through a distinctly frosty period. The chill began after the invasion of Gaza earlier this year, which Ankara criticized...

Jiri Pehe   After two years of debate, referendums, furious revision, and campaigning, the fate of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the European Union has come down to the signature...

John C. Hulsman   It has come full circle. It's easy to assume that the Counterinsurgency Field Manual -- the U.S. military's new, post-Iraq-surge bible on unconventional warfare -- is something of a...

The Honorable William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense. Interview with Middle East Bulletin.   You told The Washington Times in July that you’ve noticed that the leaders of the Gulf States...

Yulia Latynina   President Dmitry Medvedev visited Ulan Bator on Aug. 25 and 26 and signed a commercial agreement with the Mongolian authorities. Hardly a month passes without Prime Minister Vladimir...

A secret agreement made between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, which divided Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and led to its invasion continues to divide historians, journalists,...

The spokeswoman for chief prosecutor of The Hague tribunal (ICTY), Olga Kavran, spoke to RFE/RL's Kristin Deasy about the court's decision four years ago to destroy more than 1,000 personal...

Alexei Bayer   Rereading my recent Moscow Times columns, I find that their negative tone conveys a wrong impression. Actually, I believe that the decade since Vladimir Putin became prime...

A nongovernmental organization in Tatarstan has proposed the republic’s president, Mintimer Shaimiyev, for a Nobel Prize, Kommersant reported Wednesday.   The NGO, Sozvezdiye-Yoldyzlyk, published an open letter asking the Nobel...

Boris Kagarlitsky  Germany and France announced their latest victory over the crisis last week. Both countries showed slight economic growth of 0.3 percent over the summer months. Enthusiasm that they...

U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, the elder statesman of America's most famous political family, is dead at the age of 77 (born 2/22/32) after a battle with brain cancer. He was...

Nicholas Kitchen     The end of the Cold War is arguably the most important event to hit the discipline of international relations since the first chair in the subject...

Prof. Francis Fukuyama I have been asked for this panel to reflect on the question of how the core ideas of the early 1990s on what the post-Cold War world...

Francis Fukuyama I don’t feel it is my job to give advice to anyone here, particularly the presidents who spoke before me, concerning the specifics of political and economic arrangements...

Matthew Tomiak   Clear-cut gender roles as depicted in the early “Indian Captivity Narratives,” a genre that represented “arguably the first American literary form dominated by women’s experiences as captives,...