Balancing the Threat in the Middle East
What are the sources of Iranian and Saudi foreign policy and what prudent options there are for the West to adopt?
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 21 posts
The Kurds Need a Street — The Classical Liberal Case for Kurdistan
Western leaders and policymakers who bemoan the referendum can, if they choose, flatter themselves as “realists.”
Jonah Cohen
· 6 min read
A Tale of Two Europes
After a reported 23 sexual assaults and four rapes, festival organizers decided to cancel next year’s event, citing that “Certain men… apparently cannot behave.”
Michael Aaron
· 9 min read
America's Real Pivot
Trump’s speech highlighted these key aspirations, and struck the right notes, for his intended audience—the socially conservative.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
The EU Is Essentially a German Empire — Peter Hitchens on Geopolitics and the Future of Europe
The European Union is essentially therefore a modern avatar of the empire, based on Richard von Kühlmann’s imperial concept of “limited sovereignty.”
Sumantra Maitra
· 9 min read
Anti-Russian Hysteria, American Hypocrisy, and the Risk of Nuclear Confrontation
“Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Explains How to Combat Political Islam
If Hirsi Ali’s critics are tempted to cite statistics minimizing the threat, they will have to explain at what point – after how many more deaths – they will consider it necessary to take action.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 14 min read
Platitudes About Terrorism Are Not Helping
How about the Inquisition? Not a real reflection of Spanish Catholicism in the early modern period, right?
Derek Hopper
· 4 min read
The Hypocrisy of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy
Sweden was the first state to acknowledge Palestine, antagonising what is the only democratic power in Middle East and steadfast Western ally, Israel.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
The Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin
The NATO alliance was founded in 1949 to counter Soviet military might.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 15 min read
Artificially Inflating the Threat from Russia Does Nobody Any Good
Their foreign policy record understandably looks chaotic at first glance, but we can nonetheless detect a pattern to it.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Trump, NATO, and the Persistent Myths of International Relations
If one is serious about defending liberal order, then one should be prepared to spend. After all, freedom isn’t free, and Uncle Sucker won’t be there forever.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Your Guide to Blaming Russia for Everything
It’s time to wake up and smell the dark-roast Kremlin coffee. I’m talking dark-roast as in a steaming cup of pitch-black, irredeemable evil splashed in your face right after you smell it.
Caleb Bridgeman
· 5 min read
No, the Syrian Civil War Is Not like Jews Fleeing Nazi Persecution
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
The Restart of History and the Russia Question
There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power.
Sumantra Maitra
· 10 min read