by zen | May 14, 2014 | Monitor
Zen here – we would like to give a warm welcome to Stephanie Chenault, with her first guest post at ZP! : [ by Stephanie Chenault] “Violence and bloodshed can never have morally good results” – The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Saving South Sudan...
by zen | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] A Sinocentric view of the maritime world courtesy of The Policy Tensor (hat tip Historyguy 99) An amigo who is an expert on China pointed me toward a couple of links last weekend. Here is the first: Japan-China COLD WAR 8...
by zen | Mar 14, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] Russia, borrowing a tactic used by the Soviets with unruly satellites, has massed a fair amount of troops on the eastern border of Ukraine under the guise of “military exercises” This has spurred much commentary...
by zen | Mar 4, 2014 | Monitor
I have a new op-ed up this morning on the Crimean crisis over at War on the Rocks: Let’s Slow Roll Any Move Toward Crimean War II: One of the more curious implicit assumptions about the crisis in Ukraine is that the subsequent occupation of the Crimea by Russia...
by William Fassuliotis | Feb 19, 2014 | Monitor
On February 11th, 2014, I observed a panel event hosted by the German Marshall Fund entitled “Geopolitics of Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean.” The hydrocarbon reserves discovered in the region presents many opportunities yet also challenges for the nations of...
