Why are we at pains to clarify some concepts, including concepts like liberalism? Politics in some of our countries have become so dismal because legitimate and just demands of the people have been met with full-blown warfare by the regimes. These oppressive regimes became parties to a...

  (Council On Foreign Relations- Philip H. Gordon) Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria.  The war has left some 250,000 Syrians dead, seven million internally displaced, and three million forced to flee to...

(Foreign Affairs)- With U.S.-made antitank missiles finding their way to Syrian rebels and Russian fighter jets pummeling the same rebels and supplying the Bashar al-Assad regime with antiaircraft missile systems, it might seem easy to describe the battle in Syria as a proxy war. But that...

By Barak Mendelsohn (Foreign Affairs)- The October bombing of a Russian airliner above Sinai , followed quickly by the November Paris attacks , created a broad international consensus that the Islamic State ( ISIS ) is on the march and must be stopped. The United States had...