Radiological Agitprop in Ukraine?
By John R. Haines On Monday 5 May 2014, the Security Service of Ukraine or “SBU” announced the seizure...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Geopoliticus
A nation must think before it acts.
How does the U.S. counter al Qaeda while al Qaeda fights itself?
(This is the fifth and final installment of the “Smarter Counterterrorism” series. See Part 1 here, Part 2 here,...
Obama’s Visit to Asia and U.S. Alliances
As foreign trips go, President Barack Obama’s visit to Asia in April 2014 was more important than most. It...
Would jihad’s new generation kill off al-Qaeda’s global leader Ayman al-Zawahiri?
In November of 1989, a car passed through a street in Peshawar, Pakistan only to be demolished by a...
Is Azerbaijan Likely to Have Its Own Maidan?
By Arzu Geybullayeva Ukraine and Azerbaijan share a similar past in some significant ways. However, what happened in Kyiv’s Maidan...
Game On: Southeast Asian Cooperation in the South China Sea?
It is easy for a serviceman stationed on one of the tiny islands that comprise the Spratly group in...
Recent Elections in Central Europe
By Alexandra Wiktorek Sarlo Two recent elections in the neighboring central European states of Hungary and Slovakia point to...
Field Notes: Reading Lolita in Kurdistan
Two European-looking young men are sitting in the back of the minibus, which I boarded at a sprawling...
ISIS’s Rise After al Qaeda’s House of Cards – Part 4 of “Smarter Counterterrorism”
(This is Part 4 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here) Ayman al-Zawahiri must...
Field Notes: A Protest in Odessa
Two hundred people are waiting. They huddle in quiet clusters, holding small paper cups of coffee purchased from portable...