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Who’s Problem Is It Anyway?
Missing from this “analysis” about how Obama should respond is why Barack Obama should respond. After all, the US has few strategic interests in the former Soviet Union and little ability to affect...
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Putin’s Pandora’s Box
Indeed, once the winds of war start blowing, they are impossible to tame. Even if Ukrainians and the West force Putin to retreat, this is not the end of Putin’s revanchism. He is stubborn, determined...
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Lessons From History
“The water in Afghanistan,” General Zia-ul-Haq had told his spymaster in December 1979, “must boil at the right temperature.” India still has time to learn from the lessons of the war that was lost 25...
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The Road To Ferghana
Ferghana is the hotspot of Central Asia. It is an ethnic soup with hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz and Tajik living in Uzbek Ferghana and vice-versa. Ethnic tensions, sporadic violence and in 2010 the...
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Data Tells Peking’s Shift To Beijing; Persia’s To Iran
What’s in a name? Place names often change, and those changes stem from a tangle of politics and language. A fun tool from Google, the Ngram Viewer, lets us watch those changes play out across history....
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The Classic Cultural Skirmish
The United States’ new rivals and enemies all lack the element that made the Soviet-American struggle so consequential during the Cold War. Read Here – TabletmagFiled under: Geopolitics Tagged: Cold...
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What After Karzai?
The arrival of Hamid Karzai, on the heels of the U.S. invasion in 2001, promised Afghans a break from the recent bloody past. Karzai’s lack of involvement in the long, brutal civil war that followed...
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The Soviet Union’s Kinkiest Collection
The collection’s story begins in the 1920s, when the Bolsheviks turned what was once the Rumyantsev arts museum into the country’s national library. As the newly anointed Lenin Library began amassing...
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Great Neighbours, Great Powers
While there is considerable room for debate over the future extent of Sino-Russian relations (a formal alliance looks far from likely), it is worth considering the potential geopolitical implications...
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Does Russia Have A Plan B For Ukraine?
The West and Moscow are currently basing their actions not on a game plan worked out in advance, but are only reacting to a situation that is deteriorating and becoming more and more unpredictable....
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America’s 5 Biggest Foreign Policy Boo-Boos…
From Word War I to Iraq, it has always been about the United States poking its nose into other people’s business… Read here – National Interest Filed under: United States Tagged: Bay of Pigs,...
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Empire Of Conspiracy
Unfortunately, conspiracy theories are still a part of Russia’s political discourse. The idea of “subversive agents’ supported by the West was crucial for smearing dissident voices within the Soviet...
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It’s About The System, Not A Few Bad Apples
Xi Jinping is no Gorbachev. He presides over an economy that is still growing rapidly, a population whose expectations continue to rise, and a political elite that has not yet lost faith in itself and...
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Cold War II
It looks like a new Cold War between Russia and the West is inevitable, even if the conflict in Ukraine remains “frozen” in its current form until at least this summer. It became clear one year ago...
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Straight From Shakespeare’s Pen
Welcome to Uzbekistan, a country that in recent months has been home to a drama that could have come straight from Shakespeare’s pen. Playing the leading roles are: a dictator, who has had his country...
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Europe’s Shattered Dream of Order
Until recently, most Europeans believed that their post–Cold War security order held universal appeal and could be a model for the rest of the world…Russia shattered that assumption last year when it...
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The Central Asian Constant
Like the last few elections, there were no surprises in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, with the two incumbents widely expected to seize around 90 percent of the votes as soon as the elections were...
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Putin On Parade
This May’s parade in Moscow to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II promises to be the greatest Victory Day celebration since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Some 16,000 soldiers,...
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A New Russian Tank Comes Rolling In
Rolling through Red Square to the tune of patriotic war hymns, Russia’s new battle tank, the Armata T-14, will surely steal the show on Saturday during Moscow’s blowout celebration of the 70th...
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The West Needs More Russophiles
Current dialogue between Russia and the West scarcely deserves the name. Too often, it is simply a contest of postures and a recitation of grievances, each side clinging to positions stripped of nuance...
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