Hichem Karoui

Stephen Peter Rosen
The American Interest From the July – August 2009 issue:
What seems obvious about ourselves can become deeply puzzling if we actually stop to think about it. It is obvious to most Americans that the United States is a peace-loving country. Americans are natural if mostly unschooled Tocquevillians, understanding the security [...]

On Thursday, July 16, The National Interest hosted an event on “The Collapse of Pakistan” with Bruce Riedel, Obama’s recent point man for reviewing our AfPak policy. Riedel’s talk was based on his article in the July/August issue of TNI, “Armageddon in Islamabad.” Following the event, Riedel sat down with TNI [...]

Walter Z. Laqueur Commentary From issue: March 1979
The Iranian crisis is far from over; in fact it may still be in its early stages. Nevertheless, the mythmakers are already hard at work. According to one school of thought, the cause of the recent uprisings and the fall of the Shah [...]

In Ukraine’s ethnic-Russian Crimea, Kiev finds an ally in the Tartars, the country’s only Muslim population, who are taking a strong stance against talk of a return to Russian sovereignty, Ben Judah writes for ISN Security Watch.
By Ben Judah in Simferopol for ISN Security Watch
All is calm in Crimea, except for the future: [...]

Daniele Archibugia* and David Chandlerb
aItalian National Research Council, Rome, Italy; bCentre for The Study of Democracy University of Westminister, London
Abstract
In 15 years, the international community has been blamed for resorting too easily to the use of force on some occasions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo), and also it has been blamed for intervening too late or not at all in [...]