Caught between Baghdad and Erbil: The Political Struggle of Iraqi Turkmans
Image Caption: A man in traditional Turkman clothing sits in Altun Kupri, a town near Kirkuk, Iraq. In the summer of 2014, Arshad al-Salihi, head of the Iraqi T...
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The Future of Unipolarity
After the bipolar world order ended with the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, what was left, some argued, was a new power distribution within the ...
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: A Snapshot in the Life
South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, endearingly called Mama Winnie and “Mother of the Nation,” passed away in early April. A funeral service was held on A...
Should the United States Implement Democracy in the Muslim World?
The Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisian parliament. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent establishment of Western liberal hegemony, American ac...
Rebuilding Afghanistan in Its Own Failed Image
The Afghani Parliament in 2006. When it comes to the state-building effort in Afghanistan, there would seem to be plenty to criticize in the realm of poor polic...
From Russia With Love: Mercenaries, Trolls, Oligarchs, and the Story of Yevgeniy Prigozhin
Two months ago, on the night of February 7th 2018, T-72 tanks, BRDM armored personnel carriers, and trucks carrying 122mm howitzer artillery and BM-21 rocket la...
Hybrid War: A Definition and Call for Action
If one were to divide violent conflict into two broad categories, on one side would lie traditional, so-called “conventional” warfare, and on the other, asymmet...
An Antagonized Russia
The Russian navy (from left) corvette Steregushchy, destroyer Nastoichivy and frigate Admiral Gorshkov are anchored in a bay of the base in Baltiysk in Kalining...
Peace for a Time: Neville Chamberlain’s Negotiation of the Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, is widely perceived today as a terrible mistake made by a weak leader. The standard narrative is that Prime Minister...
France’s Misguided Approach to Fake News
French president Emmanuel Macron held a press conference on January 3, 2018 in which he announced “a change to [France’s] legal arsenal to protect democratic li...