Geopoliticus April 7, 2017 How Can the West Combat the Global Democratic Recession? Earlier this month, Freedom House released its annual “Nations in Transit” (NIT) report, which painted a disheartening picture... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 7, 2017 Conspiracy Theories & the St. Petersburg Metro Tragedy For more than two thousand years, the world’s lawyers, brought up in the tradition of Roman law, began any... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 24, 2017 No “Hero of Haarlem” in Ankara With Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the English-speaking world took to heart the tale of... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 27, 2017 Georgian Splits and Struggles In Gore Vidal’s stage play turned film, “The Best Man,” President Art Hockstader says, “Power is not a toy... Read more »
December 15, 2016 The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin Purchase The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin In... Read more »
December 15, 2016 Communitarian Foreign Policy: Amitai Etzionis Vision Purchase Communitarian Foreign Policy: Amitai Etzionis Vision This volume establishes Amitai Etzioni’s communitarian approach to international relations as a... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 21, 2016 After Georgia’s Runoff Elections, Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Dream is Georgia’s Total Reality In the film, “The Candidate,” after Robert Redford’s character wins a seat in the United States Senate, he asks... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 10, 2016 Georgian Parliamentary Election Results and Aftermath [Editor’s Note: This blog entry follows up on the author’s E-Note “Of Georgian Personalities and Politics: European Dreams, National... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 15, 2016 Donald Trump on ISIS: Being Wrong, and Saying It Wrong, Too Is it the nature of things that action should partake of exact truth less than speech? -Socrates, The Republic... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 9, 2016 Turkey: From “NATO’s Anchor” to What? On Monday, the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Gazetesi published the backstory to President Recep Erdoğan’s meeting in St. Petersburg with... Read more »