Posted on March 15, 2015. Tags: 9/11, Al Qaeda, Charlie Hebdo, Conspiracy Theories, Danish Cartoons, European Union, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jordan, King Abdullah, Middle East, Obama, Qur'an, Religion, Syria
This week, King Abdullah of Jordan appealed to European parliamentarians to help root out both terrorism and ‘Islamophobia’. Setting aside this interesting conflation, the wholesale failure of Arab and majority Muslim countries to embody either mutual respect or inclusivity towards many of their ethno-religious minorities bespeaks of an imbalance in critical attention to how those […]
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Posted in Europe, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Political Security, Religion, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, World
Posted on March 12, 2015. Tags: European Defense Spending, John Mearsheimer, NATO, NATO-Russia Founding Act, Poland in NATO, Post- Cold War, Putin, Russia, U.S. Troops in Europe, Ukraine
Eastern and Central European states lined up at the NATO application window after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And can anyone blame them after the events of the 20th century? They were, after all, victimized by the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty, the German Invasion, and then the subsequent Soviet “liberation” and forty- five year occupation. Yet […]
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Posted in Europe, Political Security, Security Issues, World