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Russia Resurgent
The Russian Bear is out of hibernation, and he’s more than a little grumpy. For the last ten years the focus of geopolitics wonks and geeks has been the growing economic and military clout of China....
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Putin’s Spluttering Petro-Empire
The breakneck pace of events in Ukraine are part of a much larger geopolitical story of Russia and its post Soviet place in the world. When Vladimir Putin came to power (the first time) he came with an...
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The Ukrainian Crisis and the Propaganda War
Stephanie Surface describes the propaganda war that has taken place over the Ukrainian Revolution The Russian military finally invaded the Crimea this week, after undercover militia first stormed the...
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When Eccentricity Meets Evil: Central Asia
An insight to the least known, and most bizarre region on earth New battle lines are being drawn, new economies are charging to the fore, new nation states are being born and the West seems...
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Russia, Ukraine & Crimea – A Very Complex History
Ellie McHugh recounts the multi-faceted, multi-layered history of ethnic and religious strife that makes the Ukrainian crisis far more complex than generally appreciated “Dreamers of sleepers and white...
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What If Ukraine Was Mexico And Russia Was America?
How easily could America imitate Russia and carve off a piece of Mexico, its crisis hit southern neighbour? Barack Obama will be the first US president to have born and died under the same US flag; all...
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The Bear Approaches: Russia’s Cold War Challenge to the United Kingdom
Russian aircraft are probing UK airspace at an alarming rate Throughout the Cold War, one of the most harrowing images for much of the world was the possibility of ginormous Soviet Tu-95 “Bear”...
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Vladmir Putin Is Russia’s Ronald Reagan
Far from being a caricature Bond villain, Putin is seen as a national saviour, a la Reagan. The the late 1970s the United States was deep in what Carter called a malaise. The economy was in recession,...
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6 Inconvenient Elections The West Chose To Ignore And Undo
Flawed as they are, the elections in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea are reasonably representative. Yet the West has form in ignoring elections it doesn’t find useful. Iran 1953 The oil wealth of Iran had...
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Obama’s Amateur Hour Foreign Policy Legacy
On Iran, Syria, Ukraine, Libya and Iraq, Obama has stumbled from one crisis to another with seemingly limitless ineptitude It started well enough; in his first major foreign policy speech after...
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