A Bully Pulpit or a Bully’s Pulpit
Such a flurry of activity in the first week as executive orders poured out of the Oval Office at a fast and furious pace....
‘Alternative Facts’ and Forced Migration: America, Muslim Countries, and the Refugee Crisis
There is an awful lot of emotional kvetching around the recent Trump executive order about banning entry to people from seven specific countries to...
Astana 2017: Kazakhstan’s City on a Hill
Kazakhstan, a country with immense oil wealth but relatively little global influence, has recently been trying to convert its wealth into influence. The successful...
La-La-Land of Central Asia: Kazakhstan and its “Astana Code of Conduct”
As defining terrorism in any particular case implies a political component, this very category becomes quite extensive - a subject to different readings and...
Drain The Neo-Con/Neo-Liberal Deep State Micro-Swamp
Now that President Donald Trump is, in a lightening fast, almost blitzkrieg manner, using his first weeks to pass monumentally powerful Executive Orders, in...
Why did Obama get his foreign policy so wrong?
It is only with difficulty that Obama's friends and foes alike can dispute his leadership abilities. Charismatic, humane, inspirational, well-read, composed- name it, he...
Tajikistan: transition to monarchy completed?
In the first month of 2017, Tajikistan witnessed a major dismissal accompanied by an (un)expected appointment in the power.
The mayor of Dushanbe, Tajikistan`s capitol...
Donald Trump, Nuclear Issue and Nuclear War
There were so many controversial statements made by Donald Trump during the United States Presidential Election, which makes many parties underestimated Trump’s chance to...
Perhaps President Donald Trump Needs To Chill Out A Bit
While the vast majority of President Donald Trump’s lightening fast and blitzkrieg-like Executive Orders over the past week and a half appear to have...
Prime Minister May’s hard Brexit
The speech of the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, delivered on January 17 at Mansion House, foreshadows a new and more global Britain, but...