Security & Diplomacy

With the notable exceptions of Woodrow Wilson’s second term and Franklin Roosevelt’s third and fourth, all modern American presidents have been elected primarily to deal with domestic problems. The adage attributed to former House Speaker…

To misquote Douglas MacArthur, ‘Old institutions don’t die, they just fade away.’ Sadly in international relations most organizations that have outlived their usefulness continue to solider on, saved only by bureaucratic inertia and the…

My sister in West Africa asked if I could help her purchase a video game subscription for her son’s birthday by using her credit card. The game company could detect that she was using a computer in Africa and wouldn’t process an American…

The recent EU-Russia summit did not achieve progress on the issues which most trouble Euro-Russian relations, confirming a divergence of approach between the two sides on energy supplies, but also more broadly on the respective spheres of…

Siamo – alla fine di questo primo decennio del XXI secolo – a un vero e proprio “Cassandra Crossing”, a un incrocio pericoloso. Per ragioni di sicurezza, dovremmo cercare di limitare drasticamente, visti i rischi post 11 settembre, la…