What Would Kennan Do? George Kennan, the Containment Doctrine, and ISIS
Executive Summary It may have been William F. Buckley, Jr., who observed that Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is as...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
What Would Kennan Do? George Kennan, the Containment Doctrine, and ISIS
A nation must think before it acts.
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A Method to the Madness: The Logic of Russia’s Syrian Counterinsurgency Strategy
________________________________________ “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son.” -Elvis Presley _____________________________________ Asked about Russia’s Syrian intervention, Director of National...
Implementation Day: What Just Happened?
What just happened? Several American citizens unjustly incarcerated in Iran have been released in return for the release of...
The Case for Syrian Refugee Resettlement in the US
The debate over whether or not the US should open its doors to refugees from the bloody and multisided...
Turkey’s “Kurdish Problem” – Then and Now
A decade ago many observers hoped that Turkey’s Justice and Development party (AKP) would at long last succeed in...
Strategic Planning for the Next President, Part One: The Downside of Defeatism
This is the first in a series of three essays on the challenge of strategic foreign policy planning for...
Detached Primacy: Further Musings on the “Trump Doctrine”
This essay is the companion to an earlier one in which the author attempted to divine a "Trump Doctrine"...
The Syrian Civil War and its Consequences for Hezbollah
Beginning as a largely non-violent, non-sectarian political mobilization, the Syrian revolution gradually morphed into a protracted and bloody civil...
The Problem with the Iran Nuclear Deal: It’s Not that Iran Will Violate It but that Iran Will Comply
The Belfer Center’s The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Definitive Guide is a commendable discourse on one side of the coin of...
Taiwan’s Elections in the Home Stretch
With barely a month to go before voting day, Taiwan’s elections are in the final stretch. The past few...