Egypt is arguably the most volatile country in the Maghreb area, barring Libya, presently. Ever since the three decades of “reign” of former president Hosni Mubarak have come to an abrupt end in 2011, the country has been facing the challenges – and instability – that naturally follow such a radical change in the political…

Those, mostly in Japan, who expected that the two leaders would, at one stroke, resolve the decades-old territorial dispute, were disappointed. In another disappointment, Putin politely declined to bathe with Abe in Nagato’s famed hot springs, subtly signaling that Russia-Japan relations have not yet matured sufficiently for such an intimacy to…

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If the Battle for Mosul is any indication, the overwhelming force now being used against ISIS will not be a knockout punch.  As in Aleppo, it may give the west only a Phyrrhic victory.
 
We can have all the firepower in the world, but they have several great advantages we lack. First…

On December 1, Abishur Prakash launched a groundbreaking new book called “Next Geopolitics: The Future of World Affairs (Technology).” It looks at how new technologies like robotics, embryo editing, and food cloning will transform world affairs. Russia is featured multiple times in the book for its advances in artificial intelligence and…

After the adoption of UN Security Council Resolutions 2270 of March 2, 2016 and 2321 of November 30, 2016, there appear many assumptions about North Korean collapse in near future. Experts in the West consider this collapse as probable and even very close. 
 
Supposedly, the economic hardships from sanctions will cause social unrest and…

Donald Trump will make amends with the CIA once his handpicked director, Mike Pompeo, takes over the intelligence agency.
Until then, Trump’s reported aversion to CIA security briefings will only intensify, following publication of a CIA assessment that Russia meddled in Trump’s favor during the election campaign by hacking Democratic…

The story of how Russia won the (First) Russo-American Cyberwar because American President Barack Obama did not fight back and failed to protect America’s democracy from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s well-orchestrated, wide-ranging cyberassault, part of Russia’s wider war on Western democracy
 


By Brian E…

It is now fair to say that the case of Syria and Ukraine clearly exposed fallacy of thinking that US, and in broader sense the West, relations with Russia have improved in any shape or form since the end of the Cold War era, as we are currently witnessing significant moment in the human history when these very ties have plunged to levels unseen since…

 
If your taste is for political satire, you will find a veritable banquet in Alexander J. Motyl's, "Vovochka; The True Confessions of Vladimir Putin's Best Friend and Confidant," written with tongue-in-cheek and in an original new voice. There is one caveat.
 
Professor Motyl, who teaches at Rutgers University in Newark…

At the four nation "BRIC" summit in Ykaterinburg in 2009 the group buzzed up an ambitious agenda that moved the Sorosistas and other predatory speculators to take profits by betting against the dollar.
 
These items included the need for a new reserve currency to countervail the dollar, launching a collective economic security…

Since the dawn of Pakistan as a nation-state the Army has played a magnificent role in convening the foreign policy objective of the country, its function revitalized from the time when cold war between American and Soviet Union began and USSR occupied Afghanistan, Pakistan became the number one strategic ally of American in South Asia. The Pentagon…

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                                       Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom
 
Engaged in the longest wars in our history in Afghanistan, Iraq, the still unresolved…