The Next US President’s Challenge: The Iranian and Russian Alliance
The Middle East is undergoing major whirlwinds of change. Two major events in recent weeks are about to bring tectonic shifts in Middle Eastern...
US Foreign Policy: Transactional or Value-Based
The 2016 elections presents a divergence in US foreign policy between the two major candidates. On one hand is the continuance of the status-quo...
The Rise of the EU Army as NATO Falls?
The fallout from Brexit has not only affected the economic and social trajectories of Europe but also will shift the military dynamics of the...
China’s Crimea
The recent ruling by the international tribunal in the Hague on the deliberations between the Philippines and China over territory in the South China...
The Closing of the American Mind
In 1987, Dr. Bloom wrote a scathing critique of how society has failed democracy in the perennial book, The Closing of the American Mind....
Bitcoin as a National Currency
In recent months, Bitcoins have been all the rage especially as the crypto-currency has begun to climb in value. The spike has once again...
A Realist Proposal: How the Vietnam War Can Help the US End its Afghan War
On December 28, 2014, the US and NATO formally declared an end to the Afghan war despite an ongoing insurgency. Nevertheless, a treaty was...
Natural Gas – A Game Changer for European Geopolitics
In 1945, Europe became bifurcated along two ideological camps; communism and capitalism. As the iron curtain-shrouded Europe, the geopolitical divide was defined. Nowhere was...
The Libyan Failure: Obama and Clinton’s Forgotten War
On February 17th, 2011 the Arab Spring swept Libya. Within a couple of weeks, Tripoli had fallen and the National Transitional Council was established...
The Ticking Time Bomb: The Chinese Economy
While President Obama continues to gloat that the US economy (and by extension the global economy) was rectified and on the path to growth...