New Challenges for Putin’s Foreign Policy
Abstract This article evaluates Russia’s foreign policy after Vladimir Putin’s reelection as president in March 2004. New challenges, such...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
New Challenges for Putin’s Foreign Policy
A nation must think before it acts.
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Cultural Challenges to Democratization in Russia
Abstract Three historical forces having shaped Russia—the Land, the Church, and the West. Fifteen years after the fall of...
In These Pages Winter 2006
The Bush administration justified its invasion of Iraq in 2003 with the claim that Saddam Hussein’s regime was well...
It’s a Cultural Thing: Thoughts on a Troubled CIA
Abstract The CIA has recently been the subject of numerous presidential commissions and Congressional committees concerned either with the...
The Twin Peaks of Pyongyang
Abstract The United States has been negotiating with North Korea in an effort to have it renounce its nuclear...
Immigration and National Security
Abstract The greatest threat to U.S. homeland security comes from illegals who enter the country through its porous borders...
Mexico’s Southern Flank: The “Third” U.S. Border
Abstract Mexico’s crime-ridden southern frontier has become a veritable third U.S. border, as a constant flow of Central Americans...
The Intersections of U.S. Foreign Policy, Islamist Militancy, and Terrorism
Gilles Kepel, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004). Mahmood Mamdani, Good...
Freedom in the Arab World: A Window of Opportunity or More of the Same?
U.N. Development Program, Regional Bureau for Arab States, The Arab Human Development Report 2004: Towards Freedom in the Arab World...
Defeating the Sixth Column: Intelligence and Strategy in the War on Islamist Terrorism
Abstract For the first time since the late 1940s, Washington is attempting a comprehensive analysis of the role and...