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• Category: Articles
  • This Election Day, Wishing for Wendell Willkie
  • President Trump’s COVID-19 Catch-22
  • It’s Time for Iran to Release Siamak Namazi
  • Living a Different Irony, but the Same Agony, as the Spanish Flu
  • The Myanmar Crisis is More Than the Rohingya
  • The End of Democracy in Thailand?
  • The Real Threat from North Korea
  • Indonesia’s Game of Thrones Problem
  • What Pakistan Can Learn from India
  • In Mexico, Beware the Clash of the Populists
  • What the World Always Forgets About Gaza
  • The Real Lesson from the Balfour Declaration
  • Hiroshima Saved My Life
  • If Thailand Were a Stock, I’d Short It
  • Myanmar’s 40 to 72 Percent Problem
  • Where Have You Gone, Harry Truman?
  • Three New Realities in the Middle East for the Next American President
  • Five Saudi Imperial Projects the West has Slept Through
  • A Dangerous Game of Military Politics in Indonesia
  • Resisting the Arabization of Islam in Indonesia
  • It’s Time to Talk About Saudi Arabia
  • What Putin Should Say at the United Nations
  • What If Washington Were Jerusalem?
  • Turkey and the Kurds Need An Antwerp Agreement
  • Iraq Is Not Iraq Anymore
  • Narendra Modi’s Surprisingly Successful Selfie Diplomacy
  • An End to Improvisation in Thailand
  • Myanmar is More than Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Will Myanmar’s Military Reform?
  • Back From the Dead in Myanmar
  • Don’t Let the Crisis in Ukraine Damage Decades of Progress on Nuclear Cooperation
  • In Egypt, Seeing the Muslim Brotherhood for What It Is
  • Now Is Not the Time to Give Up on Russia
  • Moving From Axis to Access of Evil
  • America and Iran’s Taba Moment
  • The Ethnic Apartheid in Myanmar
  • The Trap of Islam’s External Conflict
  • The Islamization of Great Britain
  • Indonesia, America and China’s Nine-Dash Line
  • What Jokowi Can Learn From Obama
  • The Betrayal at the Heart of Prabowo’s Challenge
  • Could China Become India’s New Best Friend?
  • Gertrude of Arabia and Her Kurdish Mistake
  • Looking for Orange Shirts in Thailand
  • The Most Important Regional Organization That Nobody Has Heard Of
  • “A Letter From the Kampung“
  • India and the U.S. Need to Play Ball
  • Somewhere Between Morning and Mourning in New Delhi
  • Cutting Off Our Nose to Spite Our Face in Myanmar
  • Rekindling Military-to-Military Ties Between the U.S. and Myanmar
  • What Myanmar Could Learn From Indonesia
  • What Thailand Needs Most Is a Bill of Rights
  • Thailand’s Andrew Jackson Moment
  • How to Invest in Myanmar
  • Let’s Remember What Iran Has Said About Israel
  • Jokowi’s Obama Problem
  • Prabowo Could Be Indonesia’s Lee Kuan Yew
  • What Myanmar Must Do To Free Itself of China
  • Surabaya’s Mrs. Mayor: Indonesia’s Best-Kept Secret
  • Can Egypt Move Beyond the Politics of Retribution?
  • China’s Indian Ocean Strategy Not a Danger-Yet
  • Helping to Bring Peace to Kashmir
  • Reading the Fault Lines in Istanbul
  • The Megalomania of Erdoğan the Magnificent
  • It’s Time to Send Pakistan’s Army Back to the Barracks
  • Mr. President, Please Don’t Let Erdogan Play America, Too
  • Five Strategies for the U.S. in Syria
  • Xi Jinping’s First Great Test
  • The Folly of Sanctions
  • The Oracle of Thailand
  • Hacking a Path Between China’s California and Myanmar’s Dracula
  • Myanmar: A Nation at War With Itself
  • Marshall Parks for the Middle East
  • The Emerging ‘Eastphalian’ International System
  • Iran, the U.S. and Azerbaijan: the Land of Fire
  • Myanmar: No Ethnics; No Nation
  • Impatient for Pashtunistan
  • It’s Time for an Independent Kurdistan
  • Idea for the Final Debate: Talk About the Biggest Challenge of Our Time
  • The Courage to Jump in Indonesia
  • What The Lady Could Learn From The First Lady
  • Israel’s Future: When It’s Jew Versus Jew
  • Making Yoni Netanyahu’s Sacrifice Matter
  • An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
  • Asia’s Quiet War
  • Iran is to India as Pakistan is to the U.S.
  • The Fire Next Time In Bangkok
  • Getting Past the Symbolism of Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Imagining ‘Eastphalia’
  • They Don’t Want Democracy. They Want Freedom.
  • The First Thing the U.S. Should Do In Myanmar
  • Huntsman is The Only Electable Republican
  • Inside the Mind of the Atari Ayatollah
  • Indonesia’s Uncertain Dance
  • Blessed are the Businessmen and Women
  • A BRILLIANT FRAUD
  • ASEAN The EU And The End Of Westphalia
  • The Mao Doctrine
  • The Confederation of Abraham
  • The Peace Process That Matters Most
  • Is Buddhist Tahrir Square Taking Shape in Thailand?
  • Meet Burma’s First Billionaire
  • Ike’s Most Prescient Insight 50 Years Ago Went Unspoken
  • The Other Nuclear Crisis
  • Counterpoint on Myanmar’s Transition
  • Outside View: Before Obama, Conservatives Targeted Reagan
  • Ending Our Isolation in Asia
  • Myanmar Frozen in Time By Ethnic Rift
  • A Match in Heaven
  • Rowing Between Two Reefs
  • Review of “Water: Asia’s New Battleground”
  • India’s Maoist Insurgency
  • Can ‘Pashtunistan’ End the Af-Pak War?
  • The Danger of Benign Neglect
  • Outside View: The United States, India and the politics of benign neglect
  • Will a King’s Death Kill Democracy?
  • A First Step Toward Democracy?
  • Rivals and Partners
  • A Civilian Surge for Afghanistan?
  • Indonesia’s Security Burden
  • Water for Peace
  • Help Us or Leave
  • India: Wary on Obama
  • A System That Works is Democratic Enough
  • Category: Asia
    • Will Young Turks Make Turkey Secular Again?
    • North Korea: What Would Harry Truman Do?
    • It’s Time for a Grand Bargain in South Asia
    • How Trump Can Beat Putin at Geopolitical Judo
    • What Donald Trump Should Say to Kim Jong Un
    • How to Make Peace with North Korea
  • Category: Europe
    • The European Union and the Tyranny of the Majority
    • What Jordan’s Syrian Refugee Crisis Can Teach the Rest of the World
  • Category: India
  • Category: Indonesia
    • Saudi Arabia’s Influence on Indonesia’s Growing Islamic Extremism
  • Category: Israel
  • Category: Mexico
    • How President Trump Can Get Out of the Border Wall Mess
  • Category: Middle East
    • Playing the Trump Card in Iran
    • Erdoğan is Not Our Friend
    • A New Report Says America is Being Duped in Myanmar
    • Why is Siamak Namazi Still in An Iranian Prison?
    • The Rise of American Sharia in Alabama
    • How to Solve Afghanistan – Permanently
    • The Lonely Man of the Middle East
  • Category: Myanmar
    • The Story We’re All Missing in Myanmar
    • Open Letter to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Category: Op-Eds
    • America Needs a 21st Century Defense Budge
    • Stumbling from New World Order to No World Order
    • The Quick or the Dead: What Trump Can Learn from Reagan on Nuclear Weapons
  • Category: US
• Category: Book Reviews
  • A Handful of Bullets
  • On The Monster’s Back: Heroism, Love, and Survival
• Category: News
  • Sudan – A Remarkable Address to the Recent Durban Conference in New York
  • Stanley Weiss on Asian Policy