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...
The Kings and I
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...
The Eradication of American proto-feminism: The re- conceptualizing of gender in the Indian Captivity Narrative
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,...
Nabucco’ya “Gaz Verenler”
Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Dünya Gündemi Analizleri'ni kurduğum günden beri ilk kez bir konu hakkında arka arkaya iki ayrı yazı yayınlamış olacağım fakat Nabucco, bundan daha fazlasını hak...
Baku Becomes a Question Mark for Nabucco Project
Jessica Powley Hayden The Nabucco pipeline project took a major step forward when five transit countries recently signed an agreement after years of hesitation. But at least one wild card...
‘Turkey should change bridge rhetoric’
Prof. Mustafa Aydın Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind...
The Sources of an Obama Doctrine
Nicholas Kitchen Three pieces I’ve read this week caught my attention: the first on Barack Obama’s response to being asked to describe the ‘Obama Doctrine’ in foreign policy; the second on...
The 2009 Failed States Index
It is a sobering time for the world’s most fragile countries—virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters, and government collapse. This year, we delve deeper than ever into just...
Historical Revisionism and George W. Bush
Nick Kitchen Reading today Mark Tractenberg’s typically thorough piece on Preventative War and US Foreign Policy, (Security Studies 16. 1) I was struck by just how much scholarship there now is...
Afghanistan Civilian Deaths: US Military Un-Apologises
Scott Lucas l Jazeera’s headline this morning cleverly uses scare quotes: “US Military ‘Confirms’ Afghan Deaths”.The raised eyebrows over “confirm” are justified, however. While “a senior military official” told the press, in...