North Africa’s Democratic Prospects
The year 2011 may well be remembered as a transformative one in the history of modern Arab states, a...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
North Africa’s Democratic Prospects
A nation must think before it acts.
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The New Nexus of Narcoterrorism: Hezbollah and Venezuela
Press stories, as well as a television documentary, over the past two months have detailed the growing cooperation between...
Risk, Military Ethics and Irregular Warfare
Prologue A US Army Non-commissioned officer reported in a letter to commentator George Will that during one patrol...
The Islamist Spring: What Mubarak Got Right, What Obama Got Wrong
As Egyptians overwhelmingly chose Islamist candidates last week in the first parliamentary ballot since the fall of President Hosni...
From Burning Bodies to Burning Books: Egypt Is Becoming a “House of Dust”
German poet Heinrich Heine famously warned, “Where they have burned books, they will end by burning people.” But the...
Muslim Brotherhood Organizations in America: Goals, Ideologies, and Strategies
A story is illustrative of many of the dynamics I am going to address. It is the story of...
Can Hezbollah Cope with a Changing Middle East?
While the Middle East undergoes fast-paced, dramatic social and political change, Hezbollah has been trying its best to shield...
The Marine Mask of War
In an era in which our national security establishment is being asked to consider draconian cuts as part of...
Kidnappings in Venezuela
The November 9 kidnapping and subsequent rescue of Major League Baseball player Wilson Ramos, a catcher for the Washington...
Sovereignty or Submission: Liberal Democracy or Global Governance?
The concept of “global governance” is in the air. For many of the world’s elites—who gather at places like...