Commentary

The foreign policy views of the Republican nominee Donald Trump have been called dangerous, treasonous, confused – and that’s just according to leading Republicans and conservatives. For example, the editor of The Weekly Standard Bill Kristol says, “It’s not...

Moldova held its first nationwide presidential election in sixteen years on Sunday, 30 October with 49.03 percent of registered voters casting ballots for nine candidates. The first-place finisher was Igor Dodon, who represents the Russia-favoring Socialist Party. Mr. Dodon...

Germany is now back in the Baltic Sea—in a big way. After the Cold War, Germany took a relatively reserved approach to its neighbors on the Baltic shores. Germany supported the Baltic states in their bid to join the...

The upcoming presidential elections in Moldova will determine whether the country further integrates with the European Union or develops a closer relationship with Russia....

In the early 1950s, the British government adopted a new approach to conducting covert operations behind the Iron Curtain. Dubbed "pinpricks" by the head of MI6, Stewart Menzies, it employed overt propaganda and limited covert action to chip away...

U.S. mainstream media failed to properly investigate the Assad regime's handover of its chemical weapon stockpiles. Even as evidence mounted that all was not as it seemed, major news outlets ignored the signs. Recent reports vindicate Adam Garfinkle, the...

Polling data suggest that Saudi millennials are more focused on domestic reforms than foreign conflict and want someone their age to run the country....

National security decisions have increasingly become centralized within the White House in what is called “palace politics," where those with access to the President help to shape national security decisions. Cabinet members face getting boxed out of the decision-making...

Twenty five years ago, in September 1991 the Soviet Union recognized Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent countries. This was the dramatic conclusion to years of public activism.  These events began in 1987, when Balts reclaimed their rights to...

On 3 October, the Russian government announced that legislation was introduced into the State Duma to suspend a 2000 agreement with the United States for the disposition of equal quantities of weapon-grade plutonium from their respective stockpiles....