The Israeli government has been warned that the Biden administration won’t stand idly by while settlers attack West Bank Palestinians. Shocking settler violence against West Bank Palestinians has polarized Israeli society and antagonized an already exasperated Biden administration. Israel’s top three security officials issued a joint communique on Saturday condemning …

In nowadays Russia, a country 60 percent of whose territory has historically belonged to ethnic groups of [East] Asian origin, it’s practically impossible to find someone with Mongolic facial features whose identity would have been widely known all across the country from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. The only exception to this …

The popular and picturesque term “soft power” has been increasingly used in recent years both in public discourse and in the academic community. The term was coined in 1990 by the American expert on politics and international relations, Joseph Nye. In short, soft power means the ability of a state/nation …