Turkic peoples

September 27, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Reading the UNGA tea leaves

America’s enemies and adversaries reveal their intentions

September 13, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem

Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis

April 28, 2023 | David Adesnik |

Guess the new Human Rights Watch director’s first target. Yup: Israel

For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel.  “This is a government that’s...

March 15, 2023 | Waller R. Newell, Clifford D. May

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

June 15, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

How international law dies

It’s flouted by despots and weaponized against small nations

March 16, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The fall of the Golden Arch Theory

Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all

January 26, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

How “Never again!” became “never mind”

To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter

December 15, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

The empires strike back

America is threatened by neo-imperialists

December 3, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Sinan Ciddi, John Hardie

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin

August 18, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

President Biden had options

He chose the worst of them

April 28, 2021 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Iran Is More Than Persia

Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic

February 17, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Despots dominate the WHO and the UNHRC

American engagement alone cannot fix UN agencies

February 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient

The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide

January 6, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Europe capitulates to China’s rulers

The EU undermines its own interests and those of its ally across the pond

July 8, 2019 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Why the United States should sanction the mastermind of China’s crackdown on the Uighurs

November 29, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Erdoğan’s Interests Converge with Putin in Moldova’s Gagauzia

BACKGROUND: On October 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan touched down in Chisinau for a ...

August 22, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

The China syndrome

Pollsters at the Pew Resear...

December 1, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Ankara’s Turkmen House of Cards

The Mosul operation has made the predominantly Turkmen city of Tal Afar the latest focus of Turkey a...

October 5, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Potential of a Chinese Terror Threat

Eighteen billion dollars in new contracts were signed during the fifth China-Eurasia Exp...

July 20, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey

Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynam...