Trump and the Geopolitics of Crazy

Posted by John on Sep 4, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Korea |
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0 comments The United States has beaten its head against the wall of North Korea for more than 70 years, and that wall has changed little indeed as a result. The United States, meanwhile, has suffered one headache after another. Over the last several weeks, the head banging has intensified. North Korea has tested a couple of possible intercontinental ballistic missiles. In response, Donald Trump...
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Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea

Posted by John on Jan 7, 2015 in Articles, Featured, Korea, US Foreign Policy |
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0 comments Cuba and North Korea share a great deal in common. They are both led by dynastic rulers. They retain their nominal affiliation to revolutionary Communism. They suffer under U.S. embargoes that have been in place for decades. And although they registered significant economic and social progress in the 1960s, they have become increasingly impoverished as a result of their isolation from the global...
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Inside Outsiders

Posted by John on Aug 12, 2013 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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0 comments In explaining the fall of Communism, most analysts talk about pressure from the inside (dissidents) coupled with pressure from the outside (Gorbachev, Reagan). But equally important were the inside-outsiders.  These were people from the region who found themselves in other countries as a result of war, uprising, or other dislocations. The Hungarian-born financier George Soros helped opposition...
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Detente from Below

Posted by John on Jun 18, 2013 in Blog, Eastern Europe, Featured, Uncategorized |
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0 comments The end of the Cold War promised a remapping of European security. The Warsaw Pact disbanded officially in 1991, though it had functionally ceased to exist at the end of 1989. NATO, without its longstanding opponent, no longer had a raison d’etre. The logical structure to replace the two-bloc system was the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). This structure grew out of what...
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