Publications

Earlier this year, Franco-German channel TV Arte released a documentary-style film, “Culture War in Latvia,” which ominously describes an extreme rift between Russian speakers and ethnic Latvians in the Baltic country. Following what has become a standard Russia-backed narrative,...

NBC News Earlier this month, America was roiled by the Department of Justice’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence (GRU) officers, as well as the arrest of suspected “unregistered foreign agent” Mariia Butina. So are Russian spies meddling more in...

War On The Rocks When analyzing the clash between Russia and the West, it is common to speak of a contest for influence in the post-Soviet space. That is not quite true. Only certain post-Soviet states have become real...

When farmer J.H. Stroh lodged an official complaint on behalf of his orchard farm in Stevens County, Washington, in 1926, his grievance painted a grim picture: damage to crops, livestock, and even metal fencing, all of which threatened his...

The National Interest The past few weeks have witnessed a kind of turning point in the Trump administration’s foreign policy, as the president cycles back to some of his original campaign themes. These include the continued pulverization of ISIS,...

Recently, news coverage of Asia has focused on Donald Trump’s trade war against the People’s Republic of China (PRC). While it is an important story, as we have seen ad nauseam with Mr. Trump, he changes his mind quite...

The Hill President Trump’s style of governing is widely and aptly described as a radical departure from that of all U.S. Presidents in recent memory. In addition to taking considerable heat for it in the U.S., he has courted controversy...

Students of geopolitics know that maps are an essential tool for understanding global conflicts. They have also become an equally important tool for educating the public. The idea that war news should be accompanied by maps owed much to...

For the first time since the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978, the Unites States government has released publicly an application seeking FISA surveillance authority. It was a seminal moment for all the wrong reasons....

The Hill Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was caught flat-footed at the Aspen Security Conference when MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell informed him that President Trump had invited his Russian counterpart to Washington. Although an embarrassed Coats tried to laugh...