America lies prostrated between two flawed extremes in its conflict with Radical Islam. The first, viewing the threat as largely organizational, holds the neutralization of individual Islamist groups as the most effective way to check the ideology’s expansion. While advantageous in limiting the scope of attack, this approach ignores the cultural and political circumstances that [...]

For all of the idealism and movements toward integration that have been guiding modern states, national interest must remain preeminent. Unless states can attain their strategic objectives, both economic and military, in the world’s most geopolitically relevant regions, the rhetoric of idealism will remain meaningless. The end of the Cold War presented the United States [...]

Something to consider when assessing the Communist experience is whether thievery exists in gradations. We generally identify thieves as petty, common criminals, seeking material wealth and a quick improvement in their social lot. Modern society has seen the term “robber baron” enter its lexicon, where a corporate executive and his majority shareholders manipulate international markets [...]

The State of Israel is in an incredibly tenuous position. The debate surrounding Israel’s interests has shifted more in the last decade than perhaps at any other time in its history, with horrific consequences. A breakdown in Israeli leadership has gone hand in hand with a mismanagement of the military and a compromise on [...]

On April 10, 1947, a group of economists and business leaders gathered at the Mont Pelerin Resort in the Swiss Alps for a conference organized by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. Hayek had invited international scorn with the publishing of his landmark Road to Serfdom. He advanced the argument that Socialism and Nazism had a common [...]

In his stirring Second Inaugural Address, President Bush vowed that it is “the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” Troubles in the Iraq war, however, have instigated a broader [...]

On October 5th, the Watson Institute for International Studies broadcast a day-long series of discussion panels entitled “Guantanamo: How Should We Respond?” The various speakers at the event provided a fairly direct, if perhaps rather shortsighted, answer to this question: we should either shut the place down immediately, or else bring it entirely within the [...]

The popular perception of the Cold War lends itself to the idea that during this time innocent lives were destroyed amidst the irrational fear of Communist subversion. In this narrative, Sen. Joseph McCarthy is the main villain. Typified as a bumbling liar and rightwing opportunist, the term McCarthyism has gained acceptance in American political dialogue [...]

Slubice, Poland - Having spent my summer in Germany and having made excursions into both the Czech Republic and Poland while staying in East Germany, I gained an interesting perspective on the economic and cultural development of Eastern Europe. Economic expansion of the European Union (EU) into Eastern Europe is sure to be a mixed-bag. [...]