Some mythbusting about U.S. policy towards Russia.

The main threats to democracy lie within liberal societies themselves.

Putin's return means more of the dismal same for everyone.

A reply to Walter Russell Mead.

A reply to Walter Russell Mead.

A reply to Walter Russell Mead.

The Blue Model is on the way out. What should come next?

Now that the awareness-raising blackouts over the notorious anti-piracy SOPA/PIPA legislation are behind us, it’s a good time to look ahead to what comes next for internet freedom. In the coming days, thousands of digital column-inches will be devoted to trying to see if these unprecedented virtual protests have managed to move the needle in […]

President Obama’s high-profile release of America’s big new strategic defense review has made it official: The brave new world of the War on Terror is a thing of the past, and the bad old world of global great-power politics is back. A new Great Game is afoot. In response to China’s debut of its first […]

Sitting in a Pizza Hut just a block from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Mina Rezkalla can’t stop telling me how much he loves Seinfeld. This is strange not least because Egypt is one of the most anti-Semitic countries in the world and Jerry Seinfeld’s eponymous television series is an exemplar of American Jewish humor. A 2010 […]