US, Russia and China: Coping with Rogue States and Terrorists Groups
The blog focuses on US.-Russian-Chinese conflicts and their cooperation in developing new approaches to threats from rogue states and terrorists groups. Realizing that Great Powers have common interests in economic growth, the welfare of their citizens and preventing nuclear holocaust and ethnic genocides, it avoids the Cold War rhetoric and focuses on the analysis of Great Powers' national interests in determining their policies. Dr. Jiri Valenta is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and the author-co-editor of nine books. Leni Friedman Valenta, a playwriting graduate of the Yale School of Drama, is the co-writer/editor and CEO of their post-communist/terrorism website, jvlv.net. Their articles have appeared in the premier international affairs magazines, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, Survival and leading newspapers such as The New York Times, Times London, El Pais (Madrid) and Moscow News.
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DNI General James Clapper’s mission to Pyongyang on the eve of President Obama ‘visit to Beijing, sounds mysterious. Yes, the release of two…
.As the mid-term 2014 elections are upon us, and 2016 looms, this blog is dedicated to the memory of my late, Russologist colleague, U.S. General William E. Odom. Thus it´s title bears his adagio on the propensities of America´s left and…
One single Muslim convert has just succeeded in paralyzing the executive and legislative branch of Canada. The parliament building has been locked down for many hours. A Canadian soldier has been killed. On the same day is…
In the face of two world politics game-changers, Ebola and ISIS, our situation is growing increasingly serious – worse every day. Yet, the Obama administration is still soft-peddling these threats, prevaricating that failures…
By Jiri and Leni Valenta America is slowly waking up…
The U.S. together with five Sunni Arab nations, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain and Qatar, began an air campaign against ISIS and Al Qaeda strongholds in Syria last night. The emergence of this coalition is a major breakthrough for…
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…
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…
While President Obama is engaged in Carter-esque, zig-zagging over military action against ISIS the Islamic, fascist organization with global ambitions, we are now also facing the other source of threat to world peace. With Kiev winning over the…
Reprinted from The National Interest, 8/22/2014 For many, the collapse of Russo-U.S. relations over Moscow’s (bloodless) invasion of Crimea and proxy war in eastern Ukraine points to the beginnings of a new Cold War. However, Russia has…
We are gratified that our vacationing president has finally been moved to airlift supplies to thousands of Yezadi Christians, driven to a hot, bare mountaintop by ISIS. Let us also thank him for air support and at least small…
Minister Ivanov, agreeing with your view that Russia and the U.S. “need each other,” we are appealing to you to speak out on behalf of a negotiated solution for the…
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