Washington is the worst violator of human rights in our era, and Washington has only begun. Who will liberate Americans from Washington’s clutches?…
The 'leaked' NATO report on the military situation in Afghanistan was largely recycled information, useful for the official leakers and journalists who got the scoop.…
Since 2003-04, India has been the biggest beneficiary of Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) policy.…
The U.S. reliance on attack drones to engage in targeted killing, especially in third countries (Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Pakistan) has raised controversial international law issues.…
Right-wing extremists could undermine the current democratization drive in Moscow…
We can only hope that Turkey stays the Davutoglu course, pursuing every opening that enables positive mutual relations among countries and using its diplomatic stature to encourage peaceful conflict resolution…
Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the "White Revolution" will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts…
The only "necessity" that drew the United States to Afghanistan was the desire to establish a military presence in this land that is next door to the Caspian Sea region…
American author Antonio Graceffo traverses Cambodia to reveal Bokator in Khun Khmer: Cambodian Martial Arts Diary.…
Favoring human security can help the government realize its constitutional obligations. Since India faces no existential threat, exaggerations such as the ‘two front’ threat notwithstanding, India can make this shift.…
Over the past few weeks, Pakistan’s army has been faced with the quandary of whether to take over through a coup or not, while the rest of us are left…
More confirmation that Washington is moving the world toward a dangerous war has appeared. …
Giving Rajapaksa’s government a free pass on human rights empowers aspiring autocrats everywhere. It sends a clear signal to semi-authoritarian governments: Go ahead, do whatever you want; you will face…
Making Russia an ally and actually “granting” her a role of regional coordinator in the post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe will intensify the old acute geopolitical contradictions between Moscow on…
We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What purpose, whose purpose is…
A politics of reconciliation can only have any hope of succeeding if there is a large display of goodwill and a sincere search by Turkish and Armenian leaders for positive…
No nation recognizes Pridnestrovie's declared independence, with Russia as its main backer.…
Chinese oil workers once again seem to be at the center of a nasty counterinsurgency in the Horn of Africa, in the Ogaden, located in south east Ethiopia.…
Russian imperial nationalism and anti-Westernism has been a distraction for Putin & Co who missed the emergence of a domestic challenge, and did not see the crisis of their regime…
A growing number of Russians recall their transition to democracy in the 1990s with a combination of fear and contempt, associating political liberalization with economic chaos and a new form…