Essays
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The Middle East Peace Process
Deep in a Hole

There is no “Plan B” for the Israelis and Palestinians.

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Congress and the CIA
The Senate “Torture Report”: How Much Will It Change?

Will the report sway public opinion enough to create lasting change?

Homo Americanus
Duane’s World

How the son of Syrian immigrants accidentally became one of Toledo’s rock-and-roll impresarios.

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Russia and the West
The Geopolitical Nihilist

Putin’s Russia may be able to wreck the geopolitical status quo, but it doesn’t have the power to replace it.

Opacities
Hot Stuff, Cold Logic

Politically correct climate change orthodoxy has completely destroyed our ability to think rationally about the environment.

Opacities
Shining a Light on the Shadow Economy

The world’s ‘informal economy’ doesn’t just exist in poor countries, and it isn’t small-in size or in its effect.

Opacities
Mistral Mysteries

Unraveling the ensemble of motives behind France’s sale of amphibious assault craft to Russia is no simple matter.

Opacities
The New Industrial Espionage

The information revolution has rendered obsolete the legacy legal regime on intellectual property rights, enabling spying for commercial purposes to morph into a strategic issue.

Opacities
Russia’s Sub Rosa Statecraft

Spying, mole-planting, subversion, and financial arm-twisting are major components of Moscow’s new hybrid campaign against European democracies.

What Ukraine Means
Russia’s Aggressive Isolationism

Putin is leveraging foreign policy for domestic purposes, a flip made possible by a globalized world.

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