by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 21, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis New York Times columnist David Brooks must have read James Billington’s Icon and the Ax: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture during summer vacation. The book was a classic in its field and remained so for years after it was first...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 24, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis The U.S. government just embarked upon its newest international media adventure. No, I don’t mean via Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, You-Tube, webpages or other bits of the social media. That’s old news. The State Department, Embassies abroad...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 28, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeI checked out the webpage of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi just after Secretary of State John Kerry had completed his two-day visit to India’s capital. Scrolling down the home page, I found a gallery of predictable VIP visitor photos:...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 26, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis It’s not quite cucumber time in Russia. That’s at its height in August. The days are long; the nights are short but I suppose that doesn’t matter much for someone holed up in Sheremetyevo’s transit lounge unless of course there are no blackout...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The President, it seems, can’t walk and chew gum. The so-called Asian pivot is a case in point, but not the only one. Is it really possible that a great power with the formal institutional resources available to the U.S. can’t keep an eye on the...
