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John R. Haines

A Tale Told Thrice: In North Kosovo, “Pure Provocation” or “Brutal Lynching”?

April 9, 2018

In late March, Kosovo internal security forces detained and then expelled a senior Serbian government official, Marko Đurić, who traveled to a North Kosovo ethnic Serb district known as North Mitrovica. While Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was adamant that...

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Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

The state of the sanctions on North Korea: One Step Forward, One Step Back…?

April 9, 2018

38 North  Judging from all publicly available information, China is currently enforcing and implementing, to a much greater degree than in the past, the UN sanctions that stand against North Korea. That of course doesn’t mean full and foolproof...

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Chris Miller

How Every Campaign Will Have a Troll Farm of Its Own

April 9, 2018

The Daily Beast Mark Zuckerberg heads to the nation’s capital this week for some lashings from America’s legislators. On Tuesday, he’ll appear in front of joint sessions of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Then on Wednesday, the Facebook CEO...

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Stephen Blank

Abandoning Syria Hands the Middle East to US Adversaries

April 9, 2018

The Hill American forces are building military bases in Syria and providing vital humanitarian assistance to embattled minorities there, and yet President Trump is insisting that troops pull out. Doing so hands Syria to Isis, Iran, and Russia in defiance of Trump’s...

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Hal Brands

Trump More Likely to Pay a ‘Big Price’ Than Assad

April 9, 2018

Kyiv Post In characteristic shoot-from-the-hip fashion, Donald Trump has already promised that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will pay a “big price” for the Syrian regime’s alleged chemical weapons attack this weekend. Yet here as in so many cases, Trump...

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Ronald J. Granieri

Immigrants, Islam, and European Democracy

April 6, 2018

Majalla European politics continues to be roiled by debates over immigration and national identity. The questions of whom to admit and how to encourage the integration of the new arrivals into the indigenous society each raise complex issues about...

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Jeremy Black

Anti-Semitism and the American Alliance: The Case of Jeremy Corbyn

April 5, 2018

That Jeremy Corbyn, the leader since 2015of Britain’s Labour Party, the official opposition, has long been linked to anti-Semitism is no news other than to the public. We shall come to some of the relevant aspects, but the point...

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Clint Watts

For Russia, Trump Was a Vehicle, Not a Target

April 3, 2018

The New York Times Last week, in a sentencing memorandum for the lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan, the special counsel’s office noted that Rick Gates and “Person A” — an unnamed figure who has ties to a “Russian intelligence service and...

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Linas Kojala

In the Baltics, We Hope Trump Tweets about Us

April 3, 2018

It was a chilly spring afternoon in downtown Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Curious passersby crowded around a dozen or so American soldiers, who were displaying their military equipment. While a bit reserved at the beginning, soldiers became much...

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Anke Schmidt-Felzmann

The U.S.-Baltic Presidential Summit: 100 Years with Russia

April 3, 2018

On April 3, 2018, the three Baltic presidents—Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania, Raimonds Vejonis of Latvia, and Kersti Kaljulaid of Estonia—will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. This unprecedented quadrilateral Baltic-U.S. presidential summit is the culmination...

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