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Why Azerbaijan is Unable to Offer Viable Solutions to the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Azerbaijan has cornered itself with the inability to offer peaceful solutions to the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict. The impasse has been caused by Baku's assumption...
Military Escalation in Disputed Areas: Upcoming Scenarios
There has been considerable tension between the Kurdistan region and the Iraqi central government, after Kurdistan to hold a referendum on the independence of...
Decertifying Iran Nuclear Deal Would Ultimately Be Bad for Both USA and Israel
While President Donald Trump is very fond of proclaiming that the Iran Nuclear Deal was an “embarrassment” and a “horrible deal” he neglects to...
The agreement between Saudi Arabia and the Russian Federation
In early October, King Salman of Saudi Arabia - with 1,500 members of his private entourage and 459 tons of luggage - landed at...
US-Turkish visa spat: A fight for basic freedoms
Moves by the United States and Turkey that largely ban travel of their nationals between the two countries is about more than two long-standing...
Additional considerations on the North Korean strategy
According to the best-informed US analysts, the response to North Korea’s further military escalation should consist in Japan’s and South Korea’s nuclear rearmament. It would...
It’s Time to Ban Automatic Weapons of Any Kind From High Population Density Areas
Even vociferous supporters of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, including undersigned, no longer have an argument against an outright and blanket ban...
The forgotten science of cooperative threat reduction
The announcement that Russia had completed the destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile was rightly applauded as a milestone in multilateral arms control. However,...
Syrian Statelets and Intelligence Games: Al-Sham’s New Mukhabarat
A novel Alawite-Shi’a security network may be developing in the Assad statelet now defining western Syria. It consists of an archipelago layered with remnants...
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: The Long Collapse of American Foreign Policy
In recent months, a large army of pundits, academics, and other policy professionals have risen up to argue that Pres. Donald Trump’s foreign policy...