Moscow's subversive actions are amplified by the meek and ineffectual behavior of the remaining members of the UN Security Council, other nuclear weapon states, and other powerful Western countries. Read it here.

Simplistic analytical models that cast Putin as an all-powerful autocrat obscure how the Russian political system actually works. Read it here.

Maintaining regional balances of power in Europe and the Middle East depends on stability in the Mediterranean. Read it here.

American foreign policy has enabled Israel to act as a crusader state rather than a normal nation-state. Read it here.

To the extent that protesters really do have 1960s envy, they would do well to reflect on the results of the anti-Vietnam War protests of that era. Read it here.