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Mar 10, 2015

Opinion: Rising Anti-Semitism in Europe Prompts Exodus

By Barbara Slavin

Among those attending the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington last week was Roger Cukierman, president of an umbrella group of Jewish organizations in France. Anti-Semitic violence there has gotten global attention since the January attacks on a Jewish deli and the headquarters of a satirical magazine in Paris, […]

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Mar 9, 2015

Hybrid War: Old Wine in a New Bottle?

By Harlan Ullman

It is seductive to conclude that “hybrid war” is a creature of the 21st century in which technology now offers an alternative and indeed reinforcement to the blunter use of military force. Based on successful Russian encroachment into Ukraine and occupation of Crimea with hybrid war tactics, it is fair to ask if that could […]

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Mar 3, 2015

The problem with Putin

By Nicholas Burns

AFTER RUSSIAN democratic leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow last weekend, I posed this question at a Harvard Kennedy School conference: Is it possible that, in Vladimir Putin’s highly controlled dictatorship, no one in the Russian government had anything to do with Nemtsov’s murder? We may never know the answer. Possible culprits range […]

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Mar 3, 2015

Opinion: Extreme Intolerance Will Doom ‘Islamic State’

By Barbara Slavin

The group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS) can’t abide competition even from the mute remains of its region’s fabled past. An equal opportunity destroyer, IS has gone beyond lopping off the heads of live perceived enemies to demolishing priceless artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia that had survived previous waves of conquest.

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Mar 3, 2015

Vietnam on the Tigris and Euphrates?

By Harlan Ullman

For those of us old enough to recall the Vietnam War, fact and reality were obscured and mangled by successive White Houses anxious to reach the delusional “light at the end of the tunnel.” Tragically, at the end of the tunnel lay a quagmire that consumed 58,000 American and countless Vietnamese lives. In the highly […]

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Feb 19, 2015

Winning the generational struggle with Putin

By Nicholas Burns

HE INVADED Crimea a year ago and then formally annexed it in a brazen, illegal act of aggression not seen in Europe since the Second World War. He sent thousands of Russian soldiers across the border to tilt the balance of Ukraine’s civil war in favor of pro-Moscow separatists and then refused to own up […]

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Feb 17, 2015

Opinion: Effort to Thwart Iran Deal Won’t Have Intended Effect

By Barbara Slavin

Friction between the United States and Israel is not uncommon. On issues ranging from the 1956 Suez war to the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, the leaders of the U.S. and Israel have often clashed in ways that reflected different perceptions of their national interests. Still, there is something particularly disturbing and […]

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Feb 16, 2015

A Journalist’s Journalist – Arnaud de Borchgrave

By Harlan Ullman

This morning, a legend and giant in journalism died. There will be no more like him. Arnaud de Borchgrave would have been eighty-nine this Fall. And his career was the stuff of Hollywood movies not the least of which was marrying his stunning and glamorous wife Alexandra with more than enough of the “right stuff” […]

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Feb 13, 2015

Nigeria, Boko Haram, and Election Delays

By J. Peter Pham

Bottom Line Up Front: • On February 7, Nigeria’s election commission announced a six-week postponement of the country’s tightly-contested presidential election (along with other federal and state polls); the decision came after the Nigerian military warned that it could not guarantee voter security in the four northeastern states hit hardest by the Boko Haram insurgency

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Feb 11, 2015

Lead Mr. Obama, Please Lead

By Harlan Ullman

The White House’s National Security Strategy (NSS) was unveiled last Friday, the first since 2010. Against the backdrop of crises abroad and economic uncertainties at home, the NSS will attract little attention beyond Beltway policy aficionados. Despite the recurring mantra of American leadership, the NSS is long on ambition and citing lofty aims and very […]

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