Unbiased Media / Biased Agendas: How to Make a Russian Demon
A little over one year ago the world was given a foundational lesson in how an impartial press can unknowingly construct a partial opinion....
Baiting the Bear: U.S. Congressional Attitudes Keeping Russia the Enemy
America seems reluctant in accepting the fairly benign fact that countries do not like to be dictated to and thus misses opportunities for creating...
Cult of Personality Creep – Turkmenistan’s Slide Back into Fantasyland
In 2006, when Turkmenbashi (“Father of all Turkmens”), President Saparmurat Niyazov, suddenly died and was replaced by former Health Minister and dentist Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov,...
Hammer and Nail: Spinning War from Peace in Iran’s Nuke Deal
Here is the ultimate axiom for all aspiring diplomats and foreign policy experts to know: there is no such thing as a simple quest...
The Reluctant Dragon: Chinese Intelligence and Global Priorities
While China has accepted human security as a new framework to study modern security challenges, it has been very busy trying to show how...
The False Diplomacy of Torture
So the United States Senate released its report highlighting extreme and supposedly ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence...
US-Russia Redux: The Problem with Intellectual Insincerity
There are numerous intellectual sources, from think tanks to governmental agencies, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the...
Jihadi Janes and Johns: The Seduction of the Islamic State for ‘Westerners’
Media outlets and government circles cringe when trying to understand why Westerners leave the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the...
The Price of Paris: Oppression and Intolerance in the Free World
The events in Paris this spring were unfortunately all too familiar in the 21st century. I think in some corners it is still perhaps...
EU vs. Google: When Goliath Pretends to be David
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Google to ascertain whether or not the company’s operating system, applications, and services have breached...