Eurasia

During a four-day visit to Russia, the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, discussed with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu ways of strengthening military-technical cooperation between the two countries. Bagheri was particularly interested in new Russian hardware now that international restrictions on …

Former Saudi Arabian intelligence officer Saad al-Jabri said in an interview with the CBS News program 60 Minutes that Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), currently the Saudi crown prince, spoke in 2014 about the idea of killing the sitting monarch at the time, King Abdullah, to pave the way for Abdullah’s …

The Polish government is hardly an appealing champion for the cause, but its critique of the extension of EU law is a sound one In a parallel universe, the UK would never have left the EU and would instead have adopted the strategy now being tried by Poland. A couple …

La Pologne ne veut pas quitter l’UE, elle veut en changer les règles, c’est la grande différence avec le Brexit. Mais le rapport de force n’est pas, cette fois, favorable à Varsovie. Il y a un énorme paradoxe dans la crise avec la Pologne qui s’est invitée hier à la …

Özellikle son birkaç haftadır çok garip, çok tuhaf gelişmeler yaşanıyor. İçeriden-dışarıdan dört koldan bir saldırıplanı uygulanıyor. Korkunç yıpratıcı, intikamcı bir organize saldırının ivmesi sistematik biçimde tırmandırılıyor. Siyasi teamüllerin, arayışların, rekabetin, seçim hazırlıklarının, siyasi kültürün çok dışında, geniş bir çerçevede yürütülen “organize” bir çalışma bu.Siyasi terör süreci başlatıldı. Türkiye’nin temeline ateş …

“Kendi özel iradelerini değil, temsil ettikleri ülkelerin iradesini yansıtıyor. O ülke hükümetleri onaylıyor, hatta belki de, öneriyor. Dolayısıyla, o büyükelçileri istenmeyen adam ilan etmek, aynı zamanda o ülkelerle bağı koparmak anlamını taşıyor”. Erdoğan, siyasal hayatının en büyük kumarını oynuyor. Aynı kentte, aynı gün, üç ayrı yerde üç konuşma. Önce Millet …

While concerns of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan are front and center, we need to remember that there are thousands of ISIS fighters waging a low-level insurgency in Iraq and Syria. Containing that threat is critical, and doing so over the long term requires an international relations moonshot: creating an …

In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United Nations Security Council moved swiftly and laid the keystone of an international framework of counterterrorism efforts. Twenty years later, it’s past time to rethink all of them. Back then, the Security Council obliged states to deny terrorists safe …

A loose analogy considers the wait and see approach concerning cancer. In a number of instances, the old school method is to do surgery before or after chemoradiation. Why do surgery, if the chemoradiation (by all accounts) has eliminated the cancer? Cancer related surgery can often lead to some quality …

Not long ago, an archaeologist friend of mine and I came to a striking conclusion: We did our intellectual work entirely backwards from one another. He, with almost nothing to go on beyond shards of pottery, had to extrapolate a world from mere fragments. I, blessed or burdened (take your …