As events in Syria have been unfolding, a remark made several years ago by King Abdullah of Jordan sticks in my mind. Abdullah, an intelligent, enlightened monarch like his father King Hussein, was explaining why he was optimistic about the future of the Arab world. He spoke about a new generation of Arab leaders whose views were like his--for example…

America is being challenged by three serious crises at the present time and triage is necessary.   Metastasizing ISIS, more than Ukraine or Ebola is a pandemic situation and the most serious of the three. It´s Flames of War video must be taken as seriously as the beheading videos of three hostages earlier.  ISIS´s language of…

Describing the project of the Eurasian Union Vladimir Putin referred to the successful integration experience of the EU. It is not about feasibility of the EAU what I am concerned with. Putin's project has indeed close resemblance to the European one, but do we need a blueprint? In my opinion, contemporary political science - both theory and…

 
While most international organizations and foreign states have made attempts to explicitly fuse drones and targeted killing to already established norms, ethics, and rules of war, the United States has focused more on drones being something of a semi-covert tool of political means. In other words, drone war is not necessarily the exact same…

Three possible scenarios of a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis: cold war, cold peace, and peaceful coexistence . Today we witness the realization of the last, intermediate scenario, which, in addition to everything else, is a Soviet legacy. In the Soviet times the peaceful coexistence theory was tested in the USSR as a form of continuation…

Given the state of current Russian relations with the West over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, one could be forgiven for considering President Putin’s visit to Mongolia on the third of September to be an oddly timed affair. Certainly for for many, even in Russia, the state of Mongolia is not a primary concern in terms of global politics. However…

An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia.
 
Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the United States, have been financing Hamas and ISIS. Now, as Washington…

The decision of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovysh not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union was the starting point of the still on-going Ukrainian crisis.  In this conflict, Russians and Ukrainians, who have historically had extremely close cultural ties, have been confronting each other. The western community, which…

The surrealism of the Ukrainian conflict continued last week, with the 28 members of the NATO alliance meeting in a cozy golf resort in Wales, United Kingdom, to discuss all of the supposedly egregious and disconcerting Russian maneuvers against Ukraine and demanding that Russia stop inviting further sanctions and pressure against itself, as British…

The Arctic Economic Council (AEC) is a new independent body established between the members of the Arctic Council (AC), the eight Arctic states, and the six Indigenous Peoples Organizations appointed Permanent Participants. The newly established AEC held its first meeting between September 1st and 3rd in Iqaluit, Canada.
 
 
 
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One of the main challenges for U.S. and Russian Foreign Policies, following the idea of a prominent American scientist Richard Haass, alongside with some other distinguished professors is that Foreign Policy begins at Home.
In 1971 a prominent Harvard philosopher J. Rawls published a book “A Theory of Justice”, where he pondered on the…

The difficulty of creating a strategy is that to do so you first have to do three things:  1.  Admit to the public that the threat exists, 2. Correctly define its nature, and 3. Assess its scope.  Mr. Obama, having known of ISIS for four years, appears to have kept the secret to himself.  It´s consistent with other efforts on…