The Assange Case and Ecuador: Correa Positions Himself as Chavez’s International Successor
Ecuador’s decision to grant political asylum to the computer hacker, Julian Assange, is very revealing in relation to the character...
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The Salvadorian Constitutional Crisis, Democracy and the International Community
Last month El Salvador experienced one of its most dramatic constitutional crises of the past 20 years. It began when...
Shariah Compliant Finance and Financial Jihad
Christopher Holton delivered the following presentation, "Shariah Compliant Finance and Financial Jihad: What America Needs to Know," on Capitol Hill. ...
The Future of Venezuela: Chavismo Without Chavez
Ever since announcing that he has cancer, the status of Hugo Chavez’s health and longevity has been an issue of...
The Summit of the Americas: A Major Disappointment
The Summit of the Americas, the largest gathering of leaders from the Latin American and Caribbean states plus the U.S....
Obama’s all-hat-no-cattle diplomacy
The multinational negotiations held over the weekend in Turkey with the ostensible purpose of halting Iran's nuclear weapons program will...
2012 Mightier Pen Award: Roger Ailes
On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at the Union League Club in New York City, the Center for Security Policy presented...
The Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Another case of regional chauvinism
In recent months the government of Argentina has launched a new political and public relations campaign aimed at putting pressure...
On Obama’s watch
On February 5th, President Obama provided his own Super Sunday show. In some respects, it was almost as bizarre as...
Obama’s defeatist ‘strategy’
Listening to Barack Obama laying out what he calls his new defense strategy, my first reaction was, "Here we go...
Assassination plot in DC related to increasing Iranian presence in Western Hemisphere
Until Chavez assumed power Iran's presence in the Western Hemisphere was not as strong as it is today. Its proxy,...
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Are We Safer? An Online Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
Introduction The tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 is, inevitably, a moment not only for remembering, but for...
Taking Iran’s missiles in Venezuela seriously
In the last several days it has been reported that Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles in Venezuela. Such...
Making sense of Argentina’s frenzied policy
Since the arrival of the Kirchner phenomenon to Argentinean politics in 2003, there has been a sense that history has...
Obama’s altruistic foreign policy
If only in the interest of intellectual hygiene, it would be refreshing if the Obama administration would stop ascribing moral...
Protecting Chavez, endangering America?
President Obama's recent trip to three Latin American nations was absolutely surreal. For one thing, he launched a war against...