Reflections on Granieri’s “Open Letters, Closed Minds, and the Making of US Foreign Policy”
In his Geopoliticus thought-piece on the “Tom Cotton Letter,” Ron Granieri, expresses an understandable, widely shared frustration with official...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Reflections on Granieri’s “Open Letters, Closed Minds, and the Making of US Foreign Policy”
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
Open Letters, Closed Minds, and the Making of US Foreign Policy
Friends and colleagues have asked me several times today for my opinion on the open letter to the Iranian...
ISIS Gets Kicked Off Twitter: Will they evolve or devolve on the Internet?
Thousands of ISIS member Twitter accounts have been shutdown over the past two weeks by Twitter. The implications are apparently dire...
Netanyahu’s Speech: What Difference Does it Make?
In the run-up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress yesterday, one important question was being asked...
Israeli Elections 2015: Possible Coalitions
In the upcoming Israeli elections on March 17, no one party is expected to win a majority of seats...
The White House CVE Summit: What should we expect? More of the same or a new direction to counter ISIS?
Yesterday, Vice President Joseph Biden kicked off the much anticipated White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). He...
Wanting It Both Ways, Principled and Practical: U.S. Policy toward Thailand
The increased strain between the United States and Thailand, longtime allies in Southeast Asia, was evident during their 34th...
The National Security Strategy of Strategic Patience and Persistence?
On Friday the Obama administration released its second, and likely last, National Security Strategy. Such strategies are produced in...
Ukraine Crisis Timeline as of January 30, 2015
In July 2014 we published a post titled “Ukraine Crisis Timeline: Talk of Peace, Acts of War.” This updated...
The Russo-Ukrainian War: Phase III
Given the launch in early January of a vigorous new separatist offensive in eastern Ukraine, backed by a reported...