Nearly 10 years after the debacle in Iraq, some nearsighted people are still pushing for strikes on Iran in the same way, by downplaying the risks and inflating the rewards. But under greater scrutiny; these points reveal a simplistic and superficial view of Iran’s worldview and foreign policy.

Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller spoke at an event sponsored by the American Security Project entitled, “New START: A Year Later- How New START Improved our National Security and the Next Steps with Russia”.

Choharis: Seventeen months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in an opinion, “There are few if any issues in international law today on which opinion seems to be so divided as the limitations on a state’s power to expropriate the property of aliens.”

23 Dec 2011   How the Soviet Union Transformed Terrorism Nick Lockwood / American Security Project / The Atlantic In the 1960s and 70s, the Soviet Union sponsored waves of political violence against the West. The Red Brigades in Italy and the German Red Army Faction both terrorized Europe through bank robberies, kidnapping, and acts…

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Lockwood: In the 1960s and 70s, the Soviet Union sponsored waves of political violence against the West….the Soviets wanted to use these left-wing terror groups to destabilize Italy and Germany to break up NATO. State-sponsored terrorism was a deeply Soviet phenomenon, but its practice did not stop when the Soviet Union ended.

This post is part of a 12-part series exploring how the U.S.-Russia relationship has shaped the world since the December 1991 end of the Soviet Union. Read the full series here. Source: The Atlantic, 22st Dec 2011 ASP Adjunct Fellow Randall Law is a featured author.   Don’t let the recent public protests against Russian prime minister and…

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