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Obama’s Human Rights Insouciance

Obama’s Human Rights Insouciance

Washington is the worst violator of human rights in our era, and Washington has only begun. Who will liberate Americans from Washington’s clutches?…

Revealing the Obvious

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.…

Growing Indo-Japan Ties with an Eye on China

Since 2003-04, India has been the biggest beneficiary of Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) policy.…

The Menace of Present & Future Drone Warfare

The Menace of Present & Future Drone Warfare

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.…

The Ultra-Nationalist Virus in Russia’s White Revolution

Right-wing extremists could undermine the current democratization drive in Moscow…

Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Zero Problems with Neighbors Revisited

Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Zero Problems with Neighbors Revisited

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…

How to Make Russia Democratic?

How to Make Russia Democratic?

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…

Please tell me again … What is the war in Afghanistan about?

Please tell me again … What is the war in Afghanistan about?

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…

Khun Khmer: Cambodian Martial Art Diary by Antonio Graceffo

Khun Khmer: Cambodian Martial Art Diary by Antonio Graceffo

American author Antonio Graceffo traverses Cambodia to reveal Bokator in Khun Khmer: Cambodian Martial Arts Diary.…

India: For an Introspective Turn

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.…

Pakistan’s Current Crisis: Institutional Maturation or Manipulation?

Pakistan’s Current Crisis: Institutional Maturation or Manipulation?

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…

Washington Moves The World Closer To War

Washington Moves The World Closer To War

More confirmation that Washington is moving the world toward a dangerous war has appeared. …

Sri Lanka’s Game of Diplomacy and Deceit

Sri Lanka’s Game of Diplomacy and Deceit

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…

U.S.-Russia: My Enemy, My Partner?

U.S.-Russia: My Enemy, My Partner?

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…

The Next War on Washington’s Agenda

The Next War on Washington’s Agenda

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…

Healing Wounds: Seeking Closure for the 1915 Armenian Massacres

Healing Wounds: Seeking Closure for the 1915 Armenian Massacres

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…

Pridnestrovie’s Present and Future

No nation recognizes Pridnestrovie's declared independence, with Russia as its main backer.…

China, Oil, and Ethnic Cleansing in Horn of Africa

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.…

The Sources and Risks of Russia’s White Revolution

The Sources and Risks of Russia’s White Revolution

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…

Russia’s Challenging Decade Ahead

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…