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June 14, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Why is Biden appeasing a Putin pawn as NATO forces are attacked?

As Russian President Vladimir Putin performs poorly in Ukraine, he will employ every possible tactic to distract the West. This time, Russia, with Serbia’s help, is provoking chaos in Europe’s...

June 4, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

How Putin is Using Chaos in the Balkans to Distract the West

‘Russia sees the region as Europe’s soft underbelly and Moscow has used information operations to inflame ethnic tensions, encourage protests and make arms deals.’

April 28, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Let’s use jazz to push back against Russia — it once worked before!

I like to joke that I moved to the United States from my homeland of Serbia because of American “psychological warfare.” But it wasn’t shadowy CIA operations that won my “heart and mind.” It...

April 9, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Natia Seskuria

Putin’s hybrid warfare diverts Western attention and resources from Ukraine

If America wants to end the Ukraine war, the first step is to see the conflict through the Kremlin’s eyes. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tanks and jets might not be powerful, but his hybrid-warfare...

March 22, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

The ‘Yugoslavia Scenario’: How Russia Intends to Use an Anniversary in Its Ongoing Information War

The Kremlin has used NATO’s 1999 intervention to justify Russia’s continual assaults on Ukraine, and won’t miss the upcoming opportunity to exploit this further.

February 3, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Russia’s Disastrous War Has Created an Opening in the Balkans

The West should remind Serbia not to hitch its wagon to a diminished Russia.

January 27, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Putin is fighting another secret war – one dangerously ignored by the West

Russia is engaged in propaganda battles around the world, but it is in the Balkans where his efforts are truly paying off

October 9, 2022 | Ivana Stradner |

Russia’s Sham Ukraine Vote Undermines Serbia’s Kosovo Claims

Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia Regions of Ukraine on Friday, Sep. 30, stating that they “are becoming [Russia’s] compatriots forever.”...

September 15, 2022 | Tanya Domi, Ivana Stradner

Serbia’s Move to Cancel EuroPride Shows How Vučić Plays Off West Against Russia and His Base

The Serbian government is moving to cancel a long-planned parade in Belgrade this Saturday as part of the annual pan-European EuroPride celebration, hosted in a different European city each year, after...

July 6, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Mystery Cargo

Senior Iranian and Venezuelan officials are traveling around the world on a cargo plane. Argentina detained them. But what are they up to?

April 8, 2022 | Ivana Stradner, Dalibor Rohac

The Threat to the West Is Inside the House

The United States and Europe need to toughen up on the spoilers in their own ranks.

April 7, 2022 | Dalibor Rohac, Ivana Stradner

Putin’s winning streak in European politics

n the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said triumphantly that ‘if Putin was seeking to divide the EU, to weaken Nato, and to break the international...

October 13, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Remember Lepanto

A great battle in a war not yet ended

June 23, 2021 | Orde Kittrie |

Hold Hamas Accountable for Human-Shields Use During the May 2021 Gaza War

November 9, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Is Iran Sending Weapons to Venezuela? And How Is the U.S. Responding?

An Iranian cargo plane gets stranded in Senegal on its way to Caracas.

July 29, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Was Nixon Wrong About China?

It might be time to question the conventional wisdom.

October 24, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European lawmakers demand sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses

Members of the European Parliament have called on trade conditions with Iran to hinge on Tehran improving its appalling human rights record. “Iran is a country where women are imprisoned for being women,”...

November 21, 2018 | John Cappello |

Moldova Considers Adopting the Global Magnitsky Act

Opposition lawmakers took the first step toward making Moldova the seventh country to pass the Global Magnitsky Act, an anti-corruption ...

August 13, 2018 | John Cappello |

NATO’s Two Percent and Burden Sharing

The debate over burden sharing within NATO is about as old as the alliance itself. However, rarely has the debate spilled into public discourse as acrimoniously as it did at the most recent NATO summi...

June 12, 2018 | John Cappello |

Kremlin Disinformation Effort Is More Than Just Facebook

Russia’s disinformation campaign isn’t just a marketing problem for Facebook or a series of nuisance bots on Twitter. It’s a concerted effort to not just disrupt Western liberal institutions, bu...