policy
29/09/2016 - 17:11
His life’s work included extensive involvement in setting up and bolstering Israel’s defense infrastructure. He armed the Israel Defense... →
01/06/2016 - 12:06
“Let’s call the new system of democracy neoliberalism,” Baratz wrote, referring to a system that sanctifies human rights. But you know what... →
22/05/2016 - 14:35
The different response by two different governments to the phenomenon of popular protest is reflected across the world. It does not just... →
16/05/2016 - 14:16
They weren’t completely wrong. Stalin’s deportation of the Tatars was one of the more heinous Soviet-era atrocities, and it resonates anew... →
28/04/2016 - 15:57
The result is that Russia today is in a condition of latent anarchy, held in check by personalized and arbitrary dominance from the Kremlin... →
08/01/2016 - 15:17
Dutch disease was partly to blame. Russia could not escape the negative side effects of a booming natural resource sector despite enacting... →
04/12/2015 - 16:43
Even after the 1977 Likud revolution — in which Begin wrested power from Labor by harnessing Mizrahi exclusion, anger at the security... →
11/10/2015 - 13:09
So what did contribute to Europe’s success? Mostly, it derived from the incentives that political leaders faced in Europe—incentives that... →
27/09/2015 - 13:24
Of course, a history of intimacy does not preclude separation, as divorce lawyers can attest. And the two countries had been “divorced” for... →
20/09/2015 - 18:38
Post-Soviet, postcolonial?
Postcolonial theory is becoming an increasingly popular way of explaining current developments in the post-... →
27/06/2015 - 13:33
In March 1999, Mr Primakov attempted to prevent Nato strikes against Yugoslavia. He famously ordered his pilot to turn around midway across... →
07/06/2015 - 13:02
The Russian “Weimar Syndrome”?
Russian pundits have learned this “humiliation” song by heart. Hence Sergei Karaganov has made it his... →