Outfoxed by the Bear? America’s Losing Game Against Russia in the Near East
For centuries, American policymakers have likened Russia to a large, clumsy bear—a state whose power relies not on skill...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Outfoxed by the Bear? America’s Losing Game Against Russia in the Near East
A nation must think before it acts.
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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...
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...
Russia Mulls New Role for its Post-Soviet Military Bloc
In October and November 2017, Central Asia and the Caucasus witnessed yet another set of Russian-led military exercises under...
New Geopolitics in the Middle East?
The possible creation of a new geopolitical reality in the Middle East may have snuck under the radar this...
Turkey’s Black Sea Policy: Navigating between Russia and the West
The heart of distrust Ankara feels towards the West lies in an existential issue: Western tolerance, and at times...
Weaponizing Sectarianism in Iraq and Syria
Abstract The last six years of insurgency, rebellion, and war have eroded territorial state sovereignty in Iraq and Syria....
1917: The Year of the Century
1917 was a key year in a crucial decade. This was a decade of change, or, rather, transformation; of...
The Changing Geopolitics of Natural Gas in the Black Sea Region
Russian dominance over natural gas deliveries into Europe has been weakening, thanks in large part to the new ways...
Russia’s Black Sea Strategy: Restoring Great Power Status
The importance of the Black Sea region to Russian security has risen over the past decade from an area...