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 Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 30, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeThe myth holds that Pakistan’s I.S.I. (aka the Interservices Intelligence Agency) is on top of everything. Its generals are the puppeteers who control Pakistan.If so, the infallible ISI has failed, miserably, at least twice in the last few...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 21, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeIf the documents recently made public on Wikileaks are authentic, and they appear to be, then Saudi Arabia seems to be doing a more ambitious job of public diplomacy than the U.S., its originator and once thoroughly competent practitioner. ...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 17, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Since Greece’s founding in the 1820s, no hard left wing party has governed the country before SYRIZA came to power in January. There’s one thing about winning an election; another about negotiating a country’s vital interests at the international...
