by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 25, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis In a talk in Washington, DC last April, Strobe Talbot, Russian expert, journalist and former Deputy Secretary of State, described Vladimir Putin as a consummate risk taker, an excellent tactician but a poor strategist. Putin’s dream of...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 20, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of zero-sum and non-zero sum games ] . And the hands-down winner is — opening today’s Washington Post to the op-ed page — President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, who says: The world has changed....
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Recent events have demonstrated yet again that Russians are Russians whether in charge of the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation. Whether the Obama administration inadvertently stumbled onto this fact of life or not, Americans and others who...
by Matthew Wallin | Sep 12, 2013 | Monitor
Russian President Putin at the G20 Summit. Yesterday in the New York Times, Russian President Vladamir Putin published an op-ed in response to the evolving situation in Syria. This attempt at public diplomacy represented a rather deaf attempt to influence Americans to...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 7, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was made to order television drama operating in nearly Aristotelian time from the beginning through the bizarre car chase, shoot out and round-up of the one suspect still alive. The script was almost all...