China and the Politics of Oil
China faces a dilemma. Today China imports more than 50 percent of its oil, and that figure is expected...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
China and the Politics of Oil
A nation must think before it acts.
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How Washington Lost Syria
With the failure of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to broker a ceasefire in Syria, Western policymakers and...
Who Killed Europe? A Provocation
Please allow me to begin with a concession and clarification. Some readers may object to the very premises of...
The Obama Doctrine and the Lessons of Iraq
The Obama Doctrine is like the Holy Grail. People have searched for it all over the world. The Internet...
Iran in Israel’s Strategic Calculus
“Will Israel Attack Iran?” was the provocative headline of respected Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman’s January story published in The...
The 2012 French Presidential Election and the Future of the Fifth Republic
In 2007 Gaullism gained a new avatar: Nicolas Sarkozy. His election to the French presidency was based on a...
The Coup in Mali — Background and Foreground
The recent coup in Mali not only revealed the fragility of African electoral democracies—something of a trend in recent...
Soft War = Smart War? Think Again
We Americans do not yet live in a post-American world. We have not yet become the Greeks to someone...
The “Arab Spring”: The Origins of a Misnomer
The tumultuous events that have swept through the Middle East during the last year or so were widely referred...
Understanding the Resilience of Monarchy During the Arab Spring
Over a year into the Arab Spring, a curious pattern has come to define the revolutionary wave that has...