E-Notes

Are you finding it difficult to keep up with the twists and turns of the goings on around North Korea these days? You’re not alone. By the time anyone planning to write about North Korea saves their text and...

Sixty-two Palestinians were killed last Monday on the Gaza-Israel border. According to Hamas, at least 50 of the 62 were members of the terrorist organization. The other 12, tragically, were, by all accounts, innocent civilians. Their deaths are deeply...

Would you rather be neighbors with ISIS or the Assad regime? These are the type of questions Americans aren’t used to asking themselves, but which our partners in the Middle East deal with routinely. In early April 2018, I...

Does anyone remember how to win wars? One distressing aspect of U.S. foreign policy over the last 15 years has been the general lack of interest in coming to grips with the evident flaws in American policy and strategy...

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, writes Elena Chebankova, "Russia's 'natural' mission was seen in embracing liberal democratic values and joining the 'normal' (western) league of states with its institutions serving as a benchmark of...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has existed since 1978, but rarely does it prompt the sort of public attention it has received in the past several months. In part, this was an inevitable by-product of the reauthorization debate...

When Americans discuss Russia’s economy, words such as corruption, kleptocracy, and petrostate dominate the conversation. These buzzwords miss the point. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Russia knows that the country is badly governed. But the interesting question...

The deed has been done to the deal: on Tuesday, as by now everyone above the age of about six knows, President Trump withdrew United States from the so-called Iran deal—formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Before...

It has been a curious spring of discontent for Canadian Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Curious, because in many respects, Canadian economic and social circumstances are positives; there are no “body bag” foreign engagements, and the new Opposition...