Strategic goals and objectives
 
Last January, Romania initiated a proposal to create a permanent NATO naval task force in the Black Sea and Bucharest intends to discuss its project during the summit of the Alliance in Warsaw in July. It is noticeably the first concrete Romanian initiative in terms of maritime security in the Black Sea, a naval…

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On July 4th, 2015 we penned an “Open Letter to Donald Trump,” recognizing before almost anybody else that this…

As Brazil’s political and economic crisis deepens a senior intelligence official has revealed that the nation is being targeted by Islamic State (IS).
 
From a security perspective the games take on a nationwide threat profile because the football tournament that is part of the Rio games will be played in major cities throughout Brazil…

Mr. William Courtney is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum, as well as president of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association. He co-chaired the U.S. delegation to the review conference that prepared for the 1999 Summit in Istanbul of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in…

The Russian Oligarchs are more comparable to the Robber Barons in late 19th Century America. Despite the similarities, however, there are important differences. The most important similarity is that both resulted from institutional and legal vacuums of which energetic, enterprising, unscrupulous men took advantage. 
In late 19th Century America…

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 In her April 13, 2016  article in Politico, Anne Applebaum’s title asks, “How Much Trouble is Russia Causing in Europe?”  She concludes…

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Resolving the Ukraine Crisis:  From Finlandization to Henry Kissinger's trade bridge supported by Valenta's Swiss-type, armed neutrality,
 
  You can…

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     SECOND INTERVIEW OF DR . JIRI VALENTA BY PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MOTYL

MOTYL: Dr. Valenta, you’ve had extensive…

Sudden, shocking, disturbing, and largely self-propelled trends in America and Europe are doing more damage to Western democracy today than Soviet armies or nuclear missiles ever did during the Cold War

 

By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981), originally published March 17th, 2016…

It would be irresponsible if those who make public policy did not pay serious attention to expert knowledge.  If experts advise that a proposed policy will fail, it would be irresponsible for policy makers to ignore their advice.  Advocating the impossible would appear to be absurd. Does this mean policy makers must resign themselves to…

Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh are far from over, and that places Russia in a very uncomfortable situation: trying to maintain friendly relations with two strategic allies while getting them both to the negotiating table.    
 
By Pavel Koshkin
 
The frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh…

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On April 10, 2016, fearing that his favorite candidate, Hillary, was in deep trouble with her server-gate, President Obama embroiled himself in a major conflict of interest.  As with Ferguson earlier, he weighed in on a controversial…