Geography teaches much about Tunisia, says Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor.
It is the Arab country closest to the heart of Europe, jutting out toward Sicily at the central Mediterranean’s narrowest point.
Whereas in states that …
Since the collapse of Communism, the Council of Europe has “become the first way station for former Soviet bloc nations aspiring to join a web of Western alliances,” writes Judy Dempsey, editor in chief of Carnegie’s Strategic Europe:
As a …
US-Russian relations will remain strained as long as Washington continues to criticize the country’s human rights record, says a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.
The US violated “a tacit understanding” to refrain from publicly criticizing Russia’s democratic regression, undermining …
“I think Kafka could not have written anything more absurd and unbelievable than this,” said Liu Xia (right), the wife of the jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo….
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February 4, 2013
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Enemies of the State: Pussy Riot and the New Russian Protest Rock
After a decade of President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule in which civil society seemed to be comatose, a new protest movement is growing in Russia. Infuriated by electoral fraud and galloping corruption, the so-called “creative class” is fighting back by …
The Obama administration should be more assertive steps to in?uence the outcome of Arab Spring transitions, engage more broadly than government-to-government relations with a diverse set of actors, and employ leverage and incentives to affect the behavior of key actors, …
Is Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi governing in the national interest or pursuing an agenda determined by his comrades in the Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership? Or is it a case of what one analyst calls new regime, same old state, with …
American citizenship appears to be the “Scarlet Letter” of Russian politics, The Economist reports, citing proposed laws targeting specific individuals, including:
…. a provision to keep Americans from working in politically-oriented NGOs was directed at Lyudmila Alexeyeva (left), …
Are the West’s democracies prepared to challenge what one analyst calls “Eurasia’s new authoritarian architecture”?
“For years now, the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia have been talking about the importance of common efforts to promote human …
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is actively considering membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group that’s been described as an authoritarian international for Eurasia’s illiberal regimes, according to Eurasia Daily Monitor analyst Emrullah Uslu:
When asked to clarify …