Is Turkey Leaving The West?
Soner Cagaptay In early October, Turkey disinvited Israel from Anatolian Eagle, an annual Turkish air force exercise that it had held with Israel, NATO, and the United States since the...
Turkey, Iran deepen ties
Erol Izmirli Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a two-day visit to Tehran last week, meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials. The result was a massive...
Turkey: Relations between Ankara and Israel Becoming Chilly
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...
The Other Vaclav
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...
Think Again: Lawrence of Arabia
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...
Clear-Eyed Engagement
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...
Geopolitics for Swindlers
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...
Secret Pact between Hitler and Stalin Stirs New Controversy
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,...
Q&A: Hague Spokeswoman Discusses Destruction of Srebrenica Artifacts
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...
Putin’s Golden Age
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...
Nobel Prize for Tatarstan’s Leader?
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...
Western Optimism and Eastern Pessimism
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...
US Senator Edward Kennedy, Heir of Powerful Family, Dies
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...
Understanding the End of the Cold War
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...
The Clash of Cultures and American Hegemony
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...