More: USA
Poetry and Rancor: Donald Trump, America and the “Hollow Men”
"We are the hollow men, We are the stuffed
men"-T S Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Donald Trump did not emerge ex nihilo, from nothing. He...
Targeting Terrorist Leaders After Al-Baghdadi: Legal And Tactical Expectations
“For By Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.”-Proverbs, 24 (6)
Under the protective tutelage of an
American president, any American president, "We the People" should...
Trump’s unilateralism hurting global economy
Since 2017, when Donald Trump took office in the White House, the global
economy has gone through a whirlwind of deteriorating events. The situation has
become...
Mexico First?
Last week Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)
accused Richard Glenn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, of...
Understanding Crimes Against Humanity: Genocide, Memory And The Future
In the
aftermath of US President Donald Trump's recent carte blanche to Turkey to destroy with impunity fragile Kurdish populations
in Syria, the "civilized" world stands...
A Much Prettier Prom Queen: Putin Outwits Trump in the Middle East. Again
By now,
most people around the world have roundly criticized or collectively shaken
their heads at President Trump and his sudden decision in early October to
remove...
On Nuclear Madmen and Their Perilous Bluffs
During the Cold War, and in particular,
the Nixon era, the US’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy had at times flirted with
the idea of its leadership playing...
Making sense or Making senseless: John Mearsheimer on the rise of China
Over the past week (since October 14), John
Mearsheimer, a well-known offensive realist, has made a whirlwind tour in
China. According to his arguments in several...
Donald Trump, War and the Shape of Chaos
“And we are
here as on a darkling plain, Swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where
ignorant armies clash by night”. -Matthew Arnold, Dover
Beach
With the...
South Caucasus in Flux and Russia’s Increased Influence in the Region
As the US and EU experience
major internal problems and China, Russia, Turkey and Iran become more
cooperative on crucial Eurasian affairs, geopolitical reshuffle would result...