The Way I See it

So for Kim Jung-un, or Kim the Third as I have called him, the support for his regime from Beijing and Moscow is absolutely...

Robert Giroux / Getty Images / Via gettyimages.com The likelihood of a serious terrorist attack on the US or its assets abroad has...

With Donald Trump now sworn in as the American President and Commander–in-Chief, here are some thoughts on where the world may be headed....

In the first part of this post, I argued that one of the more important back stories of the 2016 US elections was a Russian-​American...

Much of the post-​election chatter in the United States has focused on the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and...

Trump and Hitler have much more than hair issues in common. Of course, the America of 2016 is not the Germany of 1933, and Donald Trump...

On 15 August, the Russian and Turkish Presidents met in St Petersburg. This was their first encounter since their two countries’...

At the time of writing, it looks likely that Trump will not win the US presidential election. His numbers are gravitating around 40...

In the wake of the coup, Erdogan has thrown down gauntlets to the US and the EU that they will have difficulty picking up. First, Erdogan...

The third blog in this series looks at the transition of Erdogan and his AKP party to an overtly Islamist stance It is hard to pinpoint...

Against the backdrop of the coup in Turkey, this blog looks at the impressive ascendency of the Turkish President. It is the first in a...

Coming shortly after the successful referendum on taking the UK out of the EU, the NATO summit on 8-9 July in Warsaw promises to be one...

This piece served as the basis for a presentation transmitted via Skype from Kiev, Ukraine to Kingston, Canada for a conference organized...

Some thoughts on the impact of a Brexit victory for the future of the European Union. The UK referendum on whether Great Britain stays...

How will the relationship between Russia and China affect the future trajectory of Ukraine? This article will appear in a book on the...

This article originally appeared at http://www.cdainstitute.ca/images/on_track/On_Track_Winter_2016/On_Track_20.3_-_Law.pdf Whither the...

This third blog on the situation in the Middle East discusses the proposition to create a Sunni state in parts of Syria and Iraq. On 25...

This second blog in a series of three looks at the ongoing efforts to put together a grand anti-terrorist coalition. January 2016 will...

If we forget for a moment, the Islamic State (IS), al-Qaeda and their sundry allies and accomplices, there are essentially two alliances...

Putin’s objectives in Syria have as much or more to do with Russian concerns about developments in the former Soviet Union as with the...