TRANSFORMATION WATCH #12: ‘PLUS ÇA CHANGE…’ RUSSIA REVERTS TO FORM, HOW WILL CLINTON RESPOND?
(Washington, D.C.): Even as Russian President Boris Yeltsin is insisting that the United States and its G-7 partners immediately reschedule...
Iran
Wake-Up Call From Saddam: Turkey Is A Friend In Need, A Friend Indeed
If nothing else, the renewed outbreak of hostilities with Saddam Hussein's Iraq is an important reminder of the volatility of...
How Not to Lend To A Bankrupt Russia: Eximbank Energy Deal Should Be Iced, Reworked
The terms of a multi-billion dollar series of loan guarantees to the Russian oil and gas sector in preparation by...
Doomsday Scenario: Aspin Nomination Sets Stage For Dellums Chairmanship, Grim Tidings For Defense Community
As Presidents George Bush and Boris Yeltsin meet this weekend to discuss the status of Russia's structural transformation -- and...
AS PREDICTED, A ‘DECEMBER SURPRISE’ FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS; G-7 DEBT RESCHEDULING REWARDS KREMLIN FOR GAIDAR’S OUSTER
(Washington, D.C.): As predicted by the Center for Security Policy in July 1992, the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations...
Excerpts from a Center for Security Policy White Paper entitled “Economic Security and Global Defense” by Roger W. Robinson, Jr. 25 November 1992
Fact Vs. Fiction In Contemporary Security Policy "The Soviet Threat Is No More" Probably the most popular -- and insidious...
Another Saddam In Syria?
In "Nunn and the Mideast" , Rowland Evans and Robert Novak charged that the Center for Security Policy is part...
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: SYRIA’S STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH IRAN REVEALS BOTH NATIONS’ TRUE MIDEASTINTENTIONS
(Washington, D.C.): Iran's recent, controversial deal to buy three advanced diesel submarines from Russia is but the latest evidence of...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #10:
COUP II (PART II) — WHAT THE U.S. SHOULD DO NOW
(Washington, D.C.): Events over the past 48 hours suggest a further unravelling of the democratic forces' hold on power in...
TRANSFORMATION WATCH #9:
COUP II — THE UNFOLDING CRISIS IN THE FORMER USSR>
(Washington, D.C.): As the decision over who will lead the United States for the next four years approaches its denouement,...
BAKER MUSTN’T BE ALLOWED TO ‘DO IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS’ WHAT HE HAS ‘DONE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS’
(Washington, D.C.): For serious monitors of the Bush Administration's security policy record, last Sunday's generally stultifying debate among the presidential...
LIES, DAMNABLE LIES AND SCOWCROFT’S ‘FACTS’– A ‘BAKER‘S DOZEN’ CONTRIBUTE TO IRAQGATE COVERUP
(Washington, D.C.): On the eve of the first presidential debate, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft published a wrathful defense of...
WILL LEBANON EVER ESCAPE SYRIAN IMPERIALISM? DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH!
(Washington, D.C.): According to the accord signed in Taif, Saudi Arabia in September 1989, Syria was to have completed by...
‘RECKLESS ABANDON(MENT)’: WILL APPROPRIATORS ENDANGER VITAL ALLIANCE TIES WITH TURKEY BY ENDING MILITARY AID?
(Washington, D.C.): Congressional appropriators are being tempted to make the classic penny-wise-pound-foolish decision: Tomorrow afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee will...
MAASTRICHT MELTDOWN: TREATY D.O.A. IRRESPECTIVE OF FRENCH VOTE; LONG-TERM BENEFITS FOR U.S. FAR OUTWEIGH NEAR-TERM PROBLEMS
(Washington, D.C.): The chickens are coming home to roost for most of the G-7 leaders and Eurocrats who together have...
THE IRAQ SYNDROME: BUSH ADMINISTRATION IGNORES, FACILITATES SYRIAN ARMS BUILD-UP
(Washington, D.C.): Amidst expectations that Syrian-Israeli negotiations may soon produce a separate peace in one of the Middle East's most...