by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 10, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Last week, Montenegro, that tiny mountainous country, population of about 662,000 on the Adriatic Coast between Bosnia and Albania, was invited to join NATO. The invitation had been nine years in the making. (Montenegro map 2015 from...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 30, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The Turkish military’s downing of a Russian SU-24 was no accident but neither was the Kremlin’s overflight of Turkish territory nor its attacks on Turkmen living in regions of Syria close to the Turkish border. Russian violations of Turkish...
by Ngoc H. Le | Oct 13, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads In Egypt, elections look set to cement return to the past Lin Noueihed and Ali Abdelaty / Reuters Holding court behind a battered desk at his campaign office in the southern town of Minya, Bahaa Fikry embodies Egypt’s past. Afghan ISIS Branch makes...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 16, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Even during the darkest days of the Cold War, leaders of the US and the Soviet Union met to discuss areas of agreement and disagreement to keep international conflicts from escalating out of control. Such was Secretary John Kerry’s recent...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 24, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Ingaro Bay Last Friday, Swedish media reported the siting of an unidentified foreign submarine lurking in Swedish waters not all that far from Stockholm. This set off a wave of speculation, finger pointing, rafts of unanswered questions, memories...