A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
After Georgia’s Runoff Elections, Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Dream is Georgia’s Total Reality
A nation must think before it acts.
Author Archives for Eli Gilman
Desperate for Attention: Hung-Xi Meeting Lacks Meaning
November 14, 2016 11:50 am Leave your thoughts On November 1, 2016, Hung Hsiu-chu, chairwoman of the Kuomintang (KMT), met with Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the...
The False Promise of Drone Strikes? Ease vs. Effectiveness
November 7, 2016 2:52 pm Leave your thoughts Over the weekend, the Pentagon announced that Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) Farouq al-Qahtani (also known as Nayf Salam...
A Second Moroccan Spring?
November 4, 2016 2:33 pm Leave your thoughts News articles covering public, mobilized anger at the death of fish vendor Mohcine Fikri have repeatedly, and understandably, drawn...
One Click at a Time: The Change Agents of the Middle East
October 26, 2016 8:03 pm Leave your thoughts The Arabic-speaking world, extending from Morocco in the east to Oman in the west, is changing rapidly. The Arab...
Putting the Battle for Mosul in Context
October 20, 2016 11:12 am Leave your thoughts It has been over two years since the Islamic State sacked the Iraqi city of Mosul and captured much...
Georgian Parliamentary Election Results and Aftermath
October 10, 2016 5:00 pm Leave your thoughts [Editor’s Note: This blog entry follows up on the author’s E-Note “Of Georgian Personalities and Politics: European Dreams, National...
Taiwan’s Summer of Dire Straits
September 22, 2016 11:55 am Leave your thoughts The summer of 2016 has proven to be a brutal one for the people, president, and pocketbooks of Taiwan....
It All Started When He Hit Me Back
September 15, 2016 3:28 pm Leave your thoughts [Editor’s Note: This blog entry originally appeared on Michael Neiberg‘s personal blog and has not been edited in any...![By Mstyslav Chernov (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/A_line_of_Syrian_refugees_crossing_the_border_of_Hungary_and_Austria_on_their_way_to_Germany._Hungary_Central_Europe_6_September_2015-150x150.jpg)