by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 16, 2014 | Monitor
By James Hinton, Guest Contributor James Hinton is a former U.S. Army soldier and communications expert. He focuses a critical eye on International Affairs with the eye of a combat veteran seeking to avoid future conflicts wherever possible. They are an ethnic...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 3, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The good news is that the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy has seemingly risen from the ashes – or more accurately been wrested from the clutches of a member of the US Congress who refused to vote for the pittance required to keep this...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 29, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after arriving in Bangkok in 1973 I heard the story of Jim Thompson’s strange disappearance in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands Easter Sunday 1967. This was the tragic tale of a prominent American businessman and former OSS officer who had...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | 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...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 18, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis What, precisely, does Novorossiya mean? The recreation of the Old Soviet Union? The resurrection of the Russian Empire ruled by Moscow but under a 21st century name? Or does it mean the Russian Federation will offer special protections to...