Russian Revolution

July 16, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Will Kielm

The Wagner Rebellion: How the West Can Take Advantage of the Chaos Caused

“The West can impede the Kremlin’s initiative to centralize its armed forces into a more unified structure, prolonging the current decentralized state of the Russian Armed Forces."

May 2, 2018 | Clifford D. May

A little pivot to Central Asia

Kazakhstan is one of the ten largest countries in the world, yet most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. It spans Central Asia, home to the world’s most sophisticated civilizations...

November 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Came the revolution

My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...

September 26, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Après Putin, Le Déluge?

At first blush, Ilan Berman’s timing could hardly be worse. His new book, Implosion: Th...

April 11, 2012 | Clifford D. May

It’s Not the Arab Spring, It’s the Nahda

And it’s about “subjugating people” and “the Islamization of life.”

August 18, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Ataturk, the Arab Spring and Europe’s Fall

The father of Turkey looked to Europe. Why would anyone do that today?

June 28, 2011 |

Passionate About Jew-Hate

Germany's Left Party hard on Israel, remains silent on real human rights abusers

March 24, 2011 |

An Arab Spring?

Readers of tea leaves, tarot cards and goat entrails may be able to predict the future. But prognostication is a skill few journalists, politicians, diplomats, and intelligence officials have dem...

November 19, 2009 | Clifford D. May |

Lessons of Fort Hood

When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But it's not goin...

October 10, 2006 | National Review Online

Too Much Make-Believe

In the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was effectively cut off from all sources of raw film stock. Luckily for the Soviets, cheap copies of the silent films imported during the wa...

October 24, 2005 | Mark Dubowitz World Defense Review |

The Enduring Consequences of the First World War

If the First World War was to be the "war to end all wars," the Paris Peace Conference established a "peace to end all peace." In both the scale of its devastation and in its political consequenc...

December 3, 2003 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Hatred, European-style

In the wake of September 11th, people of good will were naturally concerned that innocent Muslims might be scapegoated. But in Europe, something else happened: anti-Semitism surged....