How to use American power, avoid catastrophe, and save the world
Dear President Trump,
Let’s skip the niceties and congratulatory...
Tags: Anti-Muslim pogroms, Brexit, European Union, Global Brief, Iran-US relations, Irvin Studin, Israël, Middle East regional security framework, NATO, Nobel Peace prize, nuclear attack, nuclear weapons, President Trump, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, terrorism, Ukraine, United Nations reform, West-Russia conflict
Metaphor and policy for a first-order country and people. Or why Canada must think for itself
Since I wrote “Canada –...
Tags: 100 million, Canada, Canada's foreign policy, Canada's future, Canada's population, Canada's success, Canadian aboriginals, Canadian power, environmental impact, Facebook, Global Brief, Harvard, Irvin Studin, Stanford
Between the argumentative and algorithmic spheres, there may be a hybrid sweet spot this century
For all those countries...
Tags: algorithmic states, authoritarian states, democratic states, federation, former Soviet space, Global Brief, governance models, Irvin Studin, monarchy, pivot to Asia, strategic culture
The European peace is logically prior to the Middle Eastern one, and it can only be built trilaterally
Russia’s move last...
Tags: China, Cold War, East-West relations, East-West tensions, Eurasian Economic Union, European stability, Global Brief, global security, Irvin Studin, Middle East order, Middle East security, Middle East security framework, NATO, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Russia-West conflict, Russian foreign policy, Russian politics, Rwanda genocide, Syria, Syrian conflict, Ukraine, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council
Why the means are more important than the ends, and how to build a national strategic psychology
Thesis 1: The primary challenge...
Tags: Arctic competition, Canada-China relations, Canada-Iran relations, Canada-Russia relations, Canadian foreign policy, Canadian population, Canadian strategic power, Constitution Act 1867, European Union, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, Pax Arctica, Quebec, Russia-West conflict, Treaty of Washington
Why and how Israel will need to work hard to make it through this new century
The late great Fred Halliday, leading thinker...
Tags: Ashkenazi Jews, Diasporic Jews, Fred Halliday, Global Brief, Herzl, Holocaust, Irvin Studin, Israël, Israel's survival, Israel-Palestine conflict, Jewish identity, Jewish political emancipation, Lee Kuan Yew, Lev Pinsker, Middle East, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Syrian civil war, Two-States Solution, Zionism
We are pleased to announce that the Institute for 21st Century Questions, or 21CQ, has been launched. We are in some sense...
A five-point plan or algorithm can save us from a terrible winter, a frozen conflict, and a century-long problem
There is...
Tags: Eurasian Customs Union, European markets, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, Kiev, Moscow, NATO, Russia, Russia's foreign policy, Russo-Ukrainian conflict, Russo-Ukrainian peace, Ukraine
The Canadian state’s answer must start with psychological-spiritual resuscitation of the Aboriginal people, but cannot...
Tags: 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, Aboriginal rights, Canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Cree, First Nations, Global Brief, Inuktitut, Irvin Studin, Michif, Ojibwe
The Ukrainian revolution was caused by gross policy incompetence at a time when Kiev needed heroic leadership. Ukraine’s...
Tags: corruption, Crimea, European Union, Global Brief, good governance, governance incompetence, Irvin Studin, Kremlin, Maidan protests, Mikhail Grushevsky, Moscow, post-Soviet statehood, Putin, Russian Federation, Russian foreign policy, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko
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