Publications

In this first-rate scholarly work that is made up of a series of interlinked explorations, Mitchell Cohen, Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and editor emeritus of Dissent, provides a study that is both instructive in itself and...

On Wednesday, October 18, President Xi Jinping of China opened the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 19th Party Congress with 3+ hours-long speech. The title of his report was “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in...

The George W. Bush Institute This Call to Action is part of a major new effort of the George W. Bush Institute’s Human Freedom Initiative. It seeks in a bipartisan way to affirm American values of freedom broadly understood,...

AEI Ideas In association with the Center for European Policy Analysis, I spent a little over one week in June and July interviewing diplomatic, military, and economic government officials in the Baltic States on the subject of Russia’s long-term...

In 2016, twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, 52 newborns in Latvia became former citizens of a country that no longer exists. They are Latvia’s “non-citizens”—a stop-gap status designed for people who moved to Latvia during...

Kyiv Post After a week of back-to-back meetings in Washington, Oleksandr Danyliuk is tired. He gladly downs a cup of coffee before we turn on our microphones to discuss Ukraine’s economy. The affable forty-two-year old finance minister is one...

Newsweek A week after Carter Page reportedly told the Senate Intelligence Committee he would not appear before it as part of the Trump-Russia probe, the committee has subpoenaed him for documents and testimony, according to NBC News. The former Trump...

Providence Journal As I watched the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick PBS series on the Vietnam War, I was reminded of a memorable essay by Jim Webb — Vietnam war hero, novelist, and most recently Democratic senator from Virginia — that...

Christopher Columbus was a figure of controversy from the outset—the present fuss is as nothing compared with what he had to put up with during his lifetime. The travails of navigation, which included shipwreck off Portugal in 1476 and...

The George W. Bush Institute In the years following World War II, democracy steadily spread across the globe and led to a period of relative peace and prosperity. The trend has begun to reverse, however, and Americans need to...