BLOG… Post #15: Obama’s Defining Moment? 15 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 Now that Crimea is in Vladimir Putin’s pocket, Russian soldiers, jets, artillery, and trucks are arrayed all along the border with eastern Ukraine. What will the US and NATO do…
BLOG… Post #14 Making Peace in the Middle East: Part 2, A Different Way Forward 10 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 As I argued in the previous post (#13), the US approach to a Middle East peace is essentially flawed because it is one-sided and doesn’t effectively address the core obstacles…
BLOG… Post #13 Making Peace in the Middle East, Part 1: The Wrong Way 8 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 At the close of an international gathering in November 2007, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed “to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations, and shall make every effort to conclude…
BLOG… Post #11: Negotiating Ukraine’s Future 31 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 President Putin apparently called President Obama to propose talks on Ukraine, and as I write the two countries’ foreign ministers are meeting. This is a welcome move in view of…
BLOG… Post #7: Addressing Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis 17 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 Remember Syria? The civil war there is entering its fourth year. While all eyes are on the Ukraine crisis, a far deadlier conflict goes on in Syria. Like his partner…
BLOG… Post #6 China Threat? The Military Side of US-China Relations 11 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 Looking back over the history of the US-USSR Cold War competition, two aspects stand out: first, the USSR’s inability to catch up with the US in strategic weapons capability; second,…
BLOG… Post #5 Can Ukraine Be Saved? 6 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 As the Obama administration and the rest of us ponder what might happen next in Ukraine, here are some suggested thinking points: The crisis is in Russia’s backyard. Russia has…
BLOG… Post #3-Ukraine: Some Words of Caution 25 Feb 201427 Feb 2017 The ever-changing drama in Ukraine makes speculation futile. Overnight, a former leader with a pro-Europe reputation has emerged from prison, and the man who put her there has fled to…
BLOG… Post #2-What to Do About North Korea? 19 Feb 201427 Feb 2017 For a number of years, I and many other specialists on North Korea have urged the United States and other governments to engage that…
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