Since 1991, Kurdish parties have dominated and administered “Iraqi Kurdistan”.

Moscow has every intention of including Ukraine in its Eurasian Union, with one major playing card: the exchange of Kiev’s sovereignty for economic and financial advantages.

Ukraine is divided along historical, ideological, economic, religious and linguistic lines, which it has failed to unite in its brief history. 

The crisis in Ukraine seems at first to be the result of the impact of two misunderstandings of Russian and Western approaches.

Methodological debates about the stages of growth and the way in which a country goes through political modernization are long-established and manifold. 

Historically, states have indebted themselves to finance military campaigns. They do so nowadays for other reasons such as financing productive investment.

The strategic value of missile defense remains in considerable debate in Europe but less so in the United States.

President Obama presented the case for his foreign policy last week – again.  He addressed the cadet corps at West Point in what was billed as a comprehensive strategic statement for the balance of his tenure in office, and for America's future.  Obama's speech came just over a week after John Kerry issued his own call for America to take a large and active role in the world — urging Americans not to "allow a hangover from the excessive interventionism of the last decade to lead now to an excess of isolationism in this decade."  It set the pitch and tone for the President's address. [1]