Center for Strategic Communication

Will the real Russia please stand up?

by | Jan 19, 2015 | Monitor

By Patricia H Kushlis  It wasn’t long after I began to work as an Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer at the US Embassy in Moscow during Brezhnev’s later years, that I learned the realities of Soviet life.  As it turned out, only one Soviet who I met during...

Poetry in the Square

by | Sep 3, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — the public square, that is, and specifically Tahrir Square ] . The Square, directed by Jehane Noujaim — a documentary tracking the lives of six people in Tahrir Square through the two recent Egyptian revolutions — just won the...

Finnish Model isn’t a Solution for Ukraine

by | Aug 28, 2014 | Monitor

By Jyrki Iivonen, Guest Contributor (Jyrki Iivonen was Director for Public Policy at the Finnish Ministry of Defense from 2002-13 and Minister Counselor at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, DC from 1996-2000.  He was editor-in-chief of Maanpuolustus (National Defense...

REVIEW: The Orientalist by Tom Reiss

by | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss  Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...