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Activating the Power of Ideas
Stephen Del Rosso,Program Director, International Peace & SecurityThis article is excerpted from The Carnegie ReporterFive bold initiatives bridge the gap between the academic and policy worlds From North Korea to South Sudan to East Ukraine, countless complex problems are cropping up all around the world today. So why aren’t...
Pope Francis Went To Turkey To Meet Patriarch Bartholomew
Hürriyet, one of Turkey’s flagship newspapers, recently interviewed the Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, who served as Director of the Press Office during the recent visit of Pope Francis to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Journalist Cansu Çamlibel, an articulate advocate for free speech and a well-known columnist, who features regular interviews...
Putin Cites Claim About U.S. Designs on Siberia Traced to Russian Mind Readers
Speaking to reporters in Moscow on Thursday, Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, claimed that economic sanctions were not primarily a response to the annexation of Crimea but part of a long-running plot by Western powers to weaken his nation and steal its natural resources. …read more Source: The Huffington...
Why Poland’s Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz Is No Pushover
By EMILY CADEI — OZY In September, incoming Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz promised to respond to Russian provocations “like a reasonable Polish woman.” Guffaws ensued. Domestic commentators found it an artless attempt to play the gender card; to foreign ears, it just sounded dated and vaguely sexist. But three months later, the mockery has...
The U.S., Cuba, and Strategic Foreign Policy
Many of President Obama’s critics are characterizing him as a bumbling idiot and a traitor for having broken the 55-year old ice between the U.S. and Cuba. If they had their way, Cuba’s people would remain imprisoned by U.S. sanctions for another half century, long after the Castro brothers are gone. These are the same critics who...
The Russian Crisis and the Syria Connection
President’s Obama announcement on Cuba is indicative of three important elements; first, while the president is handicapped by the existence of a Republican-dominated Congress, he is definitely capable of darling foreign policy initiatives. Second, the president is not so passive in the field of foreign policy as his adversaries, both in...
Putin’s Annual Address Accuses West Of Trying To Sideline Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to fix Russia’s economic woes within two years, voicing confidence that the plummeting ruble will recover and promising to diversify Russia’s gas-dependent economy. Speaking with strong emotion and looking confident, Putin also displayed a defiant stance toward the West,...
Can Bosnia’s Army Save the World?
Soldiers, officers and police that fought against each other two decades earlier are now working together in UN and NATO operations to keep or deliver peace. It is not just the mere manpower, or women power, that is being contributed by Bosnia & Herzegovina, “BiH.” As or more important is the example and hope of former...
Sony Cancels Plans To Release ‘The Interview’ On Christmas Day
Sony Pictures has canceled plans to release “The Interview” on Christmas Day. A full statement from the studio is below:In light of the decision by the majority of our exhibitors not to show the film The Interview, we have decided not to move forward with the planned December 25 theatrical release. We respect and understand our...
Russians Feel a Tempest Brewing
MOSCOW — Moscow is already packed with snow and the usual holiday traffic jams, but the mood every evening in the metro is far from festive. Anyone who rides the outlying radial metro lines will encounter ample cause for conflict on an almost daily basis. Every metro system in the world is plagued with an aggressive drunk or drug addict now...
