Search: Syria,Radical Islam,Foreign Affairs,War,Security,USA (3 materials)

Walk the Line: Russia as the New Chair of the UN Security Council

... more interesting Chairships of the United Nations Security Council, with Russia taking over and being ... ... the top of the schedule: · developments in Syria; · settlements and their legality in the ... ... has always held relatively adversarial positions toward Russia and recently made major headlines when ... ... official spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some of the highlights of her comments ... ... internal dissension, but that there were far too many radical Islamists mixed in liberally with so-called ...

26.10.2016

American Jihadi: Why Westerners Fight with the Islamic State

... both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners leaving the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State arises. While acquiring data and calculating accurate... ... seems more myth than reality. Reality in America, if you are not able to hook into upward mobility and access privileged success, is a fairly dull and even depressing situation:... ... beyond anything the West could ever think plausible. Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand the appeal of that...

18.04.2015

The Strange Bedfellows of a New Deadlier Iraq

... has already fallen completely into the hands of a radical Islamist terrorist group called ISIS. While ... ... the hardened fighters located largely in eastern Syria, where there has always been a heavy population ... ... society-building that last long after battles and wars have ended and leave indelible wounds that are ... ... also perhaps as a direct threat to its own national security goals, given the open declarations from ISIS ... ... welcome one and all to the wonderful craziness of foreign affairs in the modern multipolar world. Where ...

01.07.2014

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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
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