While very few Americans (and Western Europeans for that matter) would be hard pressed to successfully locate the Republic of Abkhazia on a map (it’s the...
For more than two decades I have written about missed opportunities and egregious missteps on the part of America (sometimes accidental, sometimes seemingly deliberate) when it...
There has been a lot of talk in the news these past several months about the current American administration’s interest in the creation of a new...
My experience and commitment to the study of Russia and the Post-Soviet space extends far beyond more than half of my life. It encapsulates my entire...
In this exclusive video for In Homeland Security, American Military University’s Dr. Matthew Crosston, Doctoral Programs, School of Security and Global Studies, discusses the tumultuous relationship...
The quasi-standoff this past week between Russia and Ukraine over the Kerch Strait has been painted in the West with a decidedly anti-Russian brush. After Russia...
By now, most of the world has read about the attempt by Russian hackers/intelligence agents to sow discord across American society leading up to the 2016...
It would be too easy to simply jump on all of the stereotypical bandwagoning going on across most of the world’s media (especially the American) coming...
In the now famous and well-recognized #MeToo era in America, the call to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond has brought much needed new...
An area of particular fascination for me has been what can be loosely called ‘controlling the narrative.’ In almost every sphere of life it is of...
The ongoing Turkish military incursion in northeast Syria could unintentionally lead to the release of scores of people associated with...
Since the beginning of clashes in Syria, Turkey has aimed at annexing the left bank of the Euphrates up to...
A series of revolutions swept through the Arab region. The first torch was from Tunisia when protester Mohamed Bouazizi burned...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been crowned the winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for “his efforts to...
In line with a global downward trend, growth in South Asia is projected to slow to 5.9 percent in 2019,...
In the post Cold War era, the US changed its policies, shifted its priorities and viewing China’s economic emergence as...
Oil markets in September withstood a textbook case of a large-scale supply disruption as the attacks on Saudi Arabia temporarily...