Security & Defense
What are the implications for the United States and its allies as they seek to build coalitions to constrain China — and if necessary, confront it?
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November 14, 2018
Centennial Celebrations
Revisiting the Map of Europe, 100 Years Later
October 22, 2018
Balkan Roadblocks
The wars in ex-Yugoslavia are over. But the conflicts remain. And some of them are getting worse.
September 18, 2018
Reimagining History
The eightieth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact next year will be a good chance to highlight its unique combination of secrecy, hypocrisy, and infamy. If Russia resents being associated with it, the answer is simple: stop trying to defend it. Instead, it adopts the opposite tactic, exemplified by a tweet published on September 14th by the Russian […]
September 10, 2018
Threads of the Past
Nazi memorabilia is not cool. If you hold your nose and look on the internet, you can find flags, T-shirts and bumper stickers commemorating the Third Reich on sale at outlets that also sell pagan-themed cigarette lighters and Ku Klux Klan regalia. But no reputable retailer would stock such merchandise. It would be reasonable to […]
September 7, 2018
Russia’s Primary Targets
External assertiveness often serves as an effective diversionary maneuver to dampen domestic turmoil by acting on the deception that Russia is under threat. Moscow’s tools of aggression against neighboring states rely on stealth and surprise. This was most evident during the attack on Ukraine in 2014 and the takeover of the Crimean peninsula. Russia’s rulers […]
September 4, 2018
A Cure For Chaos
It is not Russia that is strong; it is the West that is weak.
August 21, 2018
Putin’s Viennese Waltz
Under the right-wing coalition government which took office in December, Austria has been rattling nerves at home and abroad. It has infuriated Italy by offering passports to German-speakers in South Tirol, reopening a long-buried feud over the former Austro-Hungarian territory’s ethnic and linguistic identity. It has infuriated Israel, and observant Jews, by scheduling an EU summit that will start […]
August 15, 2018
Perils of Balkan Partition
After several provocative statements by Serbian and Kosovar politicians and in the midst of relative silence from Washington and Brussels, suppositions are growing that a territorial exchange is being planned between Belgrade and Prishtina. Kosova’s President Hashim Thaci has asserted that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will include talks on “border corrections” – a term that implies […]
July 31, 2018
Unresolved Conflicts Benefit Moscow
In dismissing fears that Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula would be sacrificed to improve relations with Moscow, the Trump administration has affirmed that the Kremlin’s claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force contravenes international law. The U.S. position is an important policy principle that must be applied to Moscow’s other forceful territorial acquisitions. The capture of […]