The Hardening of Soft Power
PARIS — International-relations theorists generally distinguish between soft and hard power.
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Category: November 2019
Russia’s New Ideocracy
MOSCOW — “Putinism” has long been a hot topic in the West, where the term – describing the policies and practices of Russian President Vladimir Putin…
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How to Deal with a Declining Russia
The Kremlin is on a roll. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has replaced the United States in Syria, continues to intervene in Eastern Ukraine…
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Combating China’s Influence Operations?
NEW YORK — As trade negotiations between the United States and China limp toward an uncertain conclusion, much of the world remains fixated…
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Trump’s Turkey deal hands power to Ankara and leaves Syrian Kurds for dead
The deal agreed between the US and Turkey immediately achieved the priority objective of vice-president Mike Pence’s peace mission to Ankara…
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What Brexit Reveals About the EU
LONDON — In another bizarre twist in the Brexit saga, the United Kingdom’s Parliament has signaled its acceptance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s withdrawal deal with the European Union…
Read MorePresident Macron may have exaggerated a little: NATO’s “Brain-death” may only be a near death experience. Full recovery may still be possible. Much, if not all, depends on the result of the 2020 Presidential elections in the U.S.
President Macron may have exaggerated when he said that NATO is “brain-dead” because of American neglect. But only a little. And he had his reasons to do it.
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