Jordan, ISIS, #WeAreAllMuadh
Jordan’s fight with the Islamic State, to employ an apt colloquialism, just got real. On February 4, a gruesome...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Jordan, ISIS, #WeAreAllMuadh
A nation must think before it acts.
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Ukraine: The Violent Contraries
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us...
The Race for Drones
Over the last two decades, the United States has been the world’s pre-eminent user and supplier of Unmanned Aerial...
Ukraine on the Brink: “The Guilty Blaming the Innocent”
“rmed struggle…is conducted by individuals and by small groups. It pursues two different aims…in the first place, the...
A New King for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s smooth leadership succession is exceptional in today’s violent and bloody Middle East. In neighboring Yemen, a coup...
Szabadság Tér and The Rumblings of a Hungarian Euromaidan Movement: Will an Emerging Scandal Be The Orbán Government’s Undoing?
Budapest’s Szabadság tér or “Freedom Square” is an historic public square. It is the site of several monuments,...
How China Exploits a Loophole In International Law in Pursuit of Hegemony in East Asia
Who “minds the gap” in the South China Sea? The gap, that is, created in international law concerning the...
Europe: What Went Wrong?
Back in April 2012, I presented a paper at a meeting of the FPRI Study Group on America and...
#jesuisahmed
I would have stood in the rain in Paris if I had been there, carrying a sign to affirm...
ISIS and Oil: Iraq’s Perfect Storm
The combination of the ISIS insurgency and low oil prices are producing an economic shock unprecedented in Iraq’s troubled...