AUGUST 20, 2011 America’s leading Russia scholar reflects on the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse, and the new threats to the world order today. By NANCY DEWOLF SMITH Twenty years ago, on Aug. 19, an attempted coup in Moscow accidentally started the countdown on what would be the final days of the Soviet Union. The […]
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AUGUST 2, 2011 H is for Hillary, who would have made a better president. By BRET STEPHENS Snapshots from President Obama’s efforts to improve America’s standing in the world, 923 days into his administration: A is for the Arab world, and our standing in it: This year, Zogby International found that 5% of Egyptians had
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JULY 9, 2011 Europeans pay tribute to a great American—and long for another. By PEGGY NOONAN What brilliant good it can do a country when the world respects, and will not forget, one of its leaders. What was vividly true 30 years ago is true today: The world looks to America. It doesn’t want to
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JULY 2, 2011 By ALAN CULLISON MOSCOW—Russia plans to deploy two army brigades in the north to defend its interests in the Arctic regions, where governments citing climate change have made competing claims over natural resources. Russia’s defense minister said officials haven’t yet worked out the details of troops or weaponry, but that the brigades,
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s common foreign policy is dead on arrival. James Kirchick April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Brussels It’s supposed to be the crowning achievement of the decades-long dream that is European integration: Last December, the European Union inaugurated its European External Action Service (EEAS). Intended to implement the
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APRIL 2, 2011 ‘The Tyrannies Are Doomed’ The West’s leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections. By BARI WEISS Princeton, N.J. ‘What Went Wrong?” That was the explosive title
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MARCH 31, 2011 An assault on Estonia in 2007 disrupted banking and other services for over a week. By WARREN GETLER Last week, the European Union revealed that its headquarters had come under a major cyber attack, likely state-sponsored, on the eve of the EU summit. Earlier this month, the French announced that they had
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Charles Krauthammer: The professor’s war By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 2011-03-24 President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of
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