Eisenhower and the Cold War
Successful presidents do not need to come through the political process, but whatever their background, they need to be...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Eisenhower and the Cold War
A nation must think before it acts.
Russia
The Trouble with Optimism: Syria in the Rear-View Mirror
It is a touching characteristic of the optimistic liberal soul that it perennially inclines to believe that bad situations...
Buying Support? Putin’s Popularity and the Russian Welfare State
As Western media focuses on the more sensational aspects of Russian domestic and foreign policy, this report argues that...
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review: Signaling Restraint with Stipulations
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is a thoughtful, deliberative report that captures the big strategic issues facing the...
Revitalizing the EU-Armenia Partnership: Positive Implications for Armenia-Georgia Relations
In November 2017, the European Union Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Brussels culminated in the signing of the Comprehensive...
Governing Business: The State and Business in Russia
This paper argues that understanding the business environment in Russia requires putting the government front and center. In response...
The Black Sea Initiative: 2018 Research Agenda
The Black Sea region in recent years has been marked both by sharp shifts and by intractable dilemmas. The...
Terrorism and Social Media: Is Big Tech Doing Enough?
On January 17, 2018, Clint Watts will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Watts is...
Editor’s Corner Winter 2018
Orbis is honored to publish a special issue devoted to the idea of “conservative inter-nationalism,” the name given to...
The Wrong Rubric: Social Connection, not Language, is Key to School Integration in Latvia
In a rural country school in Latgale, a region in eastern Latvia, breaks between classes are noisy with the...