Mr. William Courtney is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum, as well as president of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association. He co-chaired the U.S. delegation to the review conference that prepared for the 1999 Summit in Istanbul of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in…

The Russian Oligarchs are more comparable to the Robber Barons in late 19th Century America. Despite the similarities, however, there are important differences. The most important similarity is that both resulted from institutional and legal vacuums of which energetic, enterprising, unscrupulous men took advantage. 
In late 19th Century America…

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 In her April 13, 2016  article in Politico, Anne Applebaum’s title asks, “How Much Trouble is Russia Causing in Europe?”  She concludes…

                               "Unafraid, Bi-Partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom"
 
Resolving the Ukraine Crisis:  From Finlandization to Henry Kissinger's trade bridge supported by Valenta's Swiss-type, armed neutrality,
 
  You can…

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     SECOND INTERVIEW OF DR . JIRI VALENTA BY PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MOTYL

MOTYL: Dr. Valenta, you’ve had extensive…

Sudden, shocking, disturbing, and largely self-propelled trends in America and Europe are doing more damage to Western democracy today than Soviet armies or nuclear missiles ever did during the Cold War

 

By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981), originally published March 17th, 2016…

It would be irresponsible if those who make public policy did not pay serious attention to expert knowledge.  If experts advise that a proposed policy will fail, it would be irresponsible for policy makers to ignore their advice.  Advocating the impossible would appear to be absurd. Does this mean policy makers must resign themselves to…

Tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh are far from over, and that places Russia in a very uncomfortable situation: trying to maintain friendly relations with two strategic allies while getting them both to the negotiating table.    
 
By Pavel Koshkin
 
The frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh…

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On April 10, 2016, fearing that his favorite candidate, Hillary, was in deep trouble with her server-gate, President Obama embroiled himself in a major conflict of interest.  As with Ferguson earlier, he weighed in on a controversial…

The conference aims to provide a detailed analysis of the oil and gas markets of Central and Eastern Europe – Belarus, Visegrad countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary), Romania, Bulgaria, the Baltic states, Ukraine, the European part of Russia both in terms of regional retail, commercial and industrial consumption and in the…

Turkish Stream was conceived in 2014 following Russia’s cancellation of South Stream which became a casualty of Russia-Ukrainian conflict and faced high opposition from the EU with regard to its anti-monopoly laws. The original plan for landfall in the EU (Bulgaria) will now occur in Turkey, while the distribution hub for Europe will be located…

"European values" is a widely-used expression.  Everyone is assumed to know what it means. But what are "European values?" Are they unique to Europe? If so, what is it that makes them special?  Are European values superior to those of other civilizations? When did Europe acquire them? Were they operative during the eras…