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Ukrainian Unity Depends On…Bulgaria?!
Ukraine’s war with pro-Russian separatists is not only being decided in the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Oddly enough, the Ukrainian government’s recapture of Slavyansk and its advance ...
China, America, and a New Cold War in Africa?
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — Is this country the first hot battlefield in a new cold war? Is the conflict tearing this new nation apart actually a proxy fight between the world’s two top economic an...
Iran: Is the Short Honeymoon of Media Freedom Over?
On July 31, a prominent Iranian journalist tweeted , “Saba’s mother has now joined Twitter.” Saba’s mother Akram Mohammadi, had just given an interview about her daughter Saba’s ago...
Obama: Into Africa
President Obama is definitely “into” Africa. As much as possible in a world riven by multiple crises, the president has made the continent a focus of his policymaking. Turning his own Kenyan ...
How Western Aid Bungled Syria’s Opposition & Paved the Way for ISIS
The takeover of large swaths of Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—and the declaration of a new caliphate within this territory—has captured the attention of every m...
Can the Hungarian Party “Can Politics Be Different” Live up to Its Name?
Every few years in East-Central Europe, a new political movement emerges that challenges not only the status quo but the very substance of the political system. Sometimes the movement targets the...
A Bittersweet Victory for Srebrenica’s Survivors
Nineteen years ago, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim, or Bosniak, men and boys were massacred in the small mountain town of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The genocide, perpetrated by Bosnian Se...
Is Obama Really Adrift in the World?
For all the hands shaken and hamburgers eaten, President Obama has never quite shaken his reputation for detachment. He is the “cool” president who doesn’t lose his temper even when he sh...
The “Responsibility to Protect” Is Buried in Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) is wreaking havoc in Iraq, committing atrocities and leaving death and destruction in its wake. According to recent data from the United Na...
Is Human Rights Watch Too Close to the U.S. Government?
In the realm of human rights advocacy, few organizations enjoy the influence commanded by Human Rights Watch (HRW). With outposts and contacts all over world, the New York-based NGO enjoys a re...
In Gaza, International Law Is Up in Flames
As Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip rages on, ceasefires come and go. Most last just long enough for Palestinians to dig out the dead from beneath their collapsed houses, get the injured to o...
The Contrails Have It: Iron Dome Is a Dud
Contrails, the wake of an aircraft usually created by water vapor in its exhaust. When you hear them mentioned these days, it’s usually an attempt to paints. But contrails happen to be key to t...
Parsing the East Asian Powder Keg
The past six months have seen an incredible ratcheting up of tensions in the East and South China Seas, where the world’s three largest economies—China, the United States, and Japan—are cau...
A Promising but Precarious New Normal for the Young and Undocumented
Miguel Tapia was 13 when he found out what it means to be an undocumented American. His parents explained that even though he had lived in Delaware since he was 2, he could not get a drivers li...
When Diplomats Misbehave: Standoff Between Malaysia and New Zealand
Diplomatic immunity has long been a staple of good-faith diplomatic relations between governments in the modern state system. But although the privilege was designed to reduce the incidence of co...
Let’s End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Once and for All
It goes on…now in its twentieth day…Israel’s punishing military offensive against Gaza. Although it might happen – these conflicts have ended abruptly in the past – at the moment ther...
Behind Door Number Three in Iraq
Governments around the world—and their expensive yet oddly clueless intelligence agencies—are watching in shock and horror as militant Sunni radicals sweep from Syria into Iraq. Yet today�...
Growing up in Transylvania
Agnes Gagyi grew up in the city of Miercurea Ciuc in the Transylvanian region of Romania. More than 80 percent of the population of this city of 50,000 people is of Hungarian ethnicity. Most ever...
America Should Open Its Doors to Iraqis
President Barack Obama got it right when he declared: “There’s no military solution inside of Iraq, certainly not one that is led by the United States.” But his Iraq track record doesn...
Rick Perry and His Foreign Friend
Texas Governor Rick Perry may not want to let Central American children into Texas, but that doesn’t mean he hates all foreigners. Some of his best friends are foreigners! Like the right-w...