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…

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

National independences must remain divide geographically only. Not civilizational divide contains basic differences. And if there are lessons can be learned from historical developments in terms of the problematic relationship between religion and the state in the forefront of these lessons include: Linking religion in the hands of the…

 This essay was commissioned and published November 28, 2016 by the BESA  institute for Strategic Studies. Perspectives Papers are published through the generosity of the Greg Rosshandler Family at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.  The writers are grateful to the center's head, Professor Efraim Karsh, and three anonymous colleagues…

In these days, as Iraqi forces backed up by the US-led coalition are trying to break the last stand of ISIS resistance in the battle for Mosul, the world will witness the laying of a milestone in the war against the cancerous terrorist state, which broke out across the lands of Iraq and Syria, to rapidly metastasize its cells worldwide.
However, as…

Sectarian warfare is not a very new issue in the Islamic world because for decades Saudi-Arabia and Iran wish to dominate the Islamic globe, Iran exports the Shiite Islamic revolution doctrines and Saudi-Arabia the Wahabistic Islamic tenets to the Muslim world, unfortunately, both countries enjoy rich oil reserves and miss-using petrol-bucks to lead…

The Afghan political and security situations, especially in the northern Afghanistan, is dramatically deteriorated when ISIS started exodus from eastern parts of Afghanistan to the northern components of the country, recently Taliban, Haqqani Network, Al-Qaida and ISIS have doubled their combined offensive attacks and gaining more territories and Kabul…

“The Chinese grab for fossil fuels or its military competition for naval control is not a challenge but rather a boost for the US Asia-Pacific –even an overall– posture. Calibrating the contraction of its overseas projection and commitments – some would call it managing the decline of an empire – the US does not fail to…

New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile ground on which to question Trump’s pro-Russia, Pro-Putin positions and their…