Asia-Pacific No, Afghanistan has not become a 'staging ground for terrorists' Thanks to the Washington Post blowing comments out of proportion, GOP critics of the withdrawal will use this exaggeration as a cudgel.Robert WrightApril 29, 2023
Washington Politics Russia and Iran: time to dust off the old 'Axis of Evil' What if US foreign policy led to a world in which Tehran didn't want to send Moscow weapons and the latter had no use for them?Robert WrightOctober 24, 2022
Europe The murder of Daria Dugina is a wild card in a non-zero-sum conflict One of the potential consequences of last weekend's tragic car bomb killing: a wider and even costlier war.Robert WrightAugust 24, 2022
Media A case study in American propaganda What is the Institute for the Study of War? And why do America’s elite media outlets trust it for all of their on-the-ground Ukraine information?Robert WrightJune 12, 2022
Europe How cognitive empathy could have prevented the Ukraine crisis A series of American presidents have led us toward the current crisis by repeatedly failing to take serious account of the Russian leadership’s perspective.Robert WrightJanuary 29, 2022