Kosovo at the Crossroads
Steven E. MeyerArguably, the future of Kosovo is now at its most important juncture since the crisis in 1999. For the past eight years almost nothing has been accomplished to resolve the Kosovo issue....
View ArticleA Realist Symposium: Partisans Reviewed
Derek CholletGrover G. NorquistDov S. ZakheimDimitri K. SimesA Real AlternativeDerek CholletGIVEN THE tremendous challenges facing the United States, we would be wise to heed Dimitri Simes's call for...
View ArticleTorture is Not a Republican Value
Philip GiraldiTorture is immoral and therefore something that conservative Republicans, who have always given the highest priority to values and liberties, should never embrace as a policy. Those...
View ArticleCalamity over Kosovo?
Brooke LeonardWith Kosovo's declaration of independence looming on the horizon, the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations held a timely, on-the-record discussion,...
View ArticleStaying Alive
Ted Galen CarpenterSITTING AT the edge of international attention are states in all but name. Although existing as highly functioning nations, they rest also on the edge of extinction. Taiwan....
View ArticleConflicts Without Borders
Stefan WolffMANY GOVERNMENTS around the world identify stopping and stemming "ethnic and religious hatreds" as a major foreign-policy priority. Quite simply, in the words of the 2006 U.S. National...
View ArticleVoting Blind
Justine A. RosenthalDimitri K. SimesWE MAY be facing one of the most important foreign-policy elections in recent history. America is not only at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but threatened by short-,...
View ArticleGracious Grozny
Anatol LievenIn a way, Chechnya, which we visited in the course of the Valdai Club discussions in Russia last week, can stand as a more savage version of the Putin era in Russia as a whole: namely the...
View ArticleEnnui Becomes Us
Randall L. Schweller CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL relations is moving toward a state of entropy. Chaos and randomness abound. Now, the story of world politics unfolds without coherence, unfettered by...
View ArticleDon't Blame Russia
Peter LavelleThis week's twin suicide bombings on Moscow's busy metro system shocked all of Russia. Is this a return to the bad old days of the 1990s and early 2000s, which witnessed one terrorist...
View ArticleGlobalist TV
Jacob HeilbrunnForget about Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. This week the media is really obsessed about “This Week.” Christiane Amanpour made her debut on Sunday morning as the anchor of the ABC program....
View ArticleNorth Caucasus of the Bizarre
Thomas de WaalRussia’s North Caucasus is in the grip of a low-intensity civil war with a strong Islamist flavor. It is a depressing cycle of small-time jihadi violence fueled by state repression,...
View ArticleChechens I Used to Know
Thomas de WaalIlyas Akhmadov and Miriam Lanskoy, The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 288 pp., $35.00.German Sadulaev, I am a Chechen!, trans. Anna...
View ArticleRussia and Counterterror Cooperation
Sergey MarkedonovThe Tsarnaev brothers’ brutal bombings in Boston kindled new interest in counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and Russia, given the brothers’ connection to Chechnya...
View ArticleChallenges of the Eurasian Muslim Diaspora
Ariel CohenThe Tsarnaev brothers’ brutal attack in Boston sparked renewed interest in terrorism in Eurasia. The subsequent disclosure that two students from Kazakhstan allegedly tried to hide...
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