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Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose Discusses the Threat of China and the Importance of The United Nations

Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose Discusses the Threat of China and the Importance of The United Nations

Quora  12.24.2015
Q: What's the risk to the U.S. of China becoming a military enemy?
Iran Breached the Nuclear Deal -- Iran's Largest Ballistic Arsenal in the Middle East

Iran Breached the Nuclear Deal -- Iran's Largest Ballistic Arsenal in the Middle East

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh  12.24.2015
These developments suggests that not only did the nuclear deal not temper Iran's foreign policy, IRGC leaders appear to be more empowered...
Muslim Scholars and Autocrats (Part I)

Muslim Scholars and Autocrats (Part I)

Usaama al-Azami  12.23.2015
Earlier this month, I wrote a long overdue post about the minority of prominent Muslim scholars who have been systematically co-opted as...
Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose Discusses Obama's Iran Deal and the Real Threat of The Middle East

Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose Discusses Obama's Iran Deal and the Real Threat of The Middle East

Quora  12.22.2015
Much of the hullabaloo over the Iran deal earlier this year was political rather than substantive. The JCPOA is a solid arms control agreement...
Goodbye Lindsey, and the Hillary Doctrine

Goodbye Lindsey, and the Hillary Doctrine

Chris Weigant  12.21.2015
The big news today was that Senator Lindsey Graham has decided to drop out of the presidential nomination race. But recently, what has...

Islamism in Kosovo

David L. Phillips  12.21.2015
Given the strong affinity between Albanians and the United States, the recent rise of Islamism in Kosovo is deeply troubling.
Bad Government Decisions that Seemed Like Good Ideas at the Time

Bad Government Decisions that Seemed Like Good Ideas at the Time

Ivan Eland  12.21.2015
We can no longer afford repeated government decisions that spend trillions of taxpayer dollars on projects that originally may seem like...
5 Reasons Bernie Sanders Should Be Our Next President

5 Reasons Bernie Sanders Should Be Our Next President

Khwaja Khusro Tariq  12.21.2015
This is the best chance we've had in a long time to take the decision-making that affects our lives and the lives of our children away...

Albania: Ambassador Lu's Watch List

Fron Nahzi  12.20.2015
As a driving force behind Albania's judicial reforms, US Ambassador Donald Lu recently told a room full of judges that they were divided...
Bernie Sanders And Donald Trump Actually Agree On Something

Bernie Sanders And Donald Trump Actually Agree On Something

Reuters  12.20.2015
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump said separately on Sunday that the United States should...

Media Has Symbiotic Ties With ISIS? Ignoring Other Terrorist Groups

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh  12.19.2015
There seems to be a symbiotic relationship between the mainstream media and ISIS. On one hand, ISIS receives the publicity it needs from...
War and Peace in a Jittery Nation: Obama's Last Year and After

War and Peace in a Jittery Nation: Obama's Last Year and After

Derek Shearer  12.17.2015
The Republican Presidential race is unhinged by international events, as well as by President Obama's staying power. None is a credible...