A grand strategy for Ukraine?
Political, economic, and cultural divorce from Russia, integration with the world, and alliance building with eastern Europe, Turkey, and the United States are the three components of a grand strategy that… Read more »
Category: Analysis
Egypt ‘significantly escalates’ civil society crackdown
Egypt expanded its crackdown on human rights organizations Tuesday, raiding a center that treats victims of violence and attempting to shut it down. This time, however, the government backed down,… Read more »
Can civil society tame Pakistan’s violent extremism?
Tackling extremism is a political minefield in Pakistan where politicians openly consort with leaders of banned militant groups and sympathy exists within the security forces and civil administration for perpetrators… Read more »
How Russia sanctions bite the Kremlin
The West’s unprecedented step to sanction post-communist Russia [in the wake of the invasion of Crimea] proves that the liberal democracies no longer consider Russia as a responsible partner or… Read more »
Migrants’ revolution has capacity to remake democracies
The thousands gathering at Europe’s borders, and the thousands who have already crossed, are widely but wrongly supposed to be refugees of an uprising that failed: the Arab spring. In… Read more »
State Capitalism resurgence threatens democracy
Liberal democracies are under threat from a resurgence of state capitalism, which is ultimately “more protectionist, more dangerous to global security and prosperity, and more threatening to political freedom” than free… Read more »
Mission Failure? U.S. foreign policy in post-Cold War era
Notwithstanding his pretensions to have inaugurated a new era in America’s foreign affairs, President Barack Obama’s conduct of foreign policy represents an unwitting continuation of, and also brings an unintended… Read more »
Did the Libya intervention work after all?
The very fact that the Libya intervention and its legacy have been either distorted or misunderstood is itself evidence of a warped foreign policy discourse in the US, where… Read more »
The Decline and Fall of the Arab State
A mere five years ago, the suggestion that Egypt would have experienced two changes of regime or that Tunisia would be in the midst of a democratic transition would also… Read more »
Panama Papers give glimpse through keyhole of kleptocracy
The Panama Papers are a glimpse through a keyhole of an orgy of tax evasion, money laundering and kleptocracy – amid the legitimate financial planning – hosted by the world’s… Read more »