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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Just a few days after we analyzed the official Chinese bombing at Tianeman square, yet another more sophisticated bombing occurred in the provincial city Taiyuan, in front of Communist Party headquarters. One person was killed; eight were critically…
Islamist terrorist attack in the heart of Beijing, but also increasing attacks in India, demonstrate that these terrorists do not just attack Christian and Jewish targets, but also Buddhists and Hindus. As we suggested in "Great Powers, Rogue States…
Coming on the heels of the suicide bomber attacks in front of a Kabardino Balkaria mosque is the suicide bomb attack In Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), 520 miles from the Northern Caucasus. The female Jihadist from Dagestan, wearing a…
Coming on the heels of the suicide bomber attacks in front of a Kabardino Balkaria mosque is the suicide bomb attack In Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), 520 miles from the Northern Caucasus. The female Jihadist from Dagestan…
Ah! It´s a new world and we are moving towards civility, arms control and negotiated settlements! Mah-velous! Optimistic observers are even comparing elegantly dressed, English-speaking, Hassan Rouhani to Mikhail…
The 9/21 attack on a Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya by the terrorist group, Al Shabab, demonstrates that we share a particular concern with Russia. While they worry about Chechens returning to savage their homeland after learning military…
They are terrorist groups who seek to build Islamist states in, as well as out of, non Islamist states. They justify their murder of innocents as a tribute they pay to a God who apparently only approves of them. Indeed, their battles are also…
Are we approaching a new chapter in Russian-American relations? Though some American mindsets are congealed in the frigid certainty that a Russia, conceived in despotism, can never…
Thank you, Fox News Panel 5, for pooh poohing people who quote Shakespeare on Twitter. We are deeply flattered, as that was of course us. We turned to Shakespeare in our desperation while watching the White House mismanagement of the Syrian crisis. We…
Russian president Putin has just astonished the world by proposing that Assad´s chemical weapons be put under international control. Is this a cynical attempt to deflate the president´s eleventh hour appeal to the nation for a military…
Coming to the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russian President Putin seemed to be saying he would consider blessing a U.S. military strike against Syria if the U.N. proved Assad did the dirty WMD deed. We won´t hold our breath…
This simply was destiny. In our research trips to Europe my wife, Leni, and I sought only to address the issues of anti-Semitism and the holocaust as it affected our own families. We toured synagogues, death camps and memorials in numerous…
Poll conducted
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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements 33 (31%) U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity 30 (28%) U.S. wants to dissolve Russia 24 (22%) U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China 21 (19%)
