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Browsing College of Humanities and Social Sciences by Subject "International Affairs"

Browsing College of Humanities and Social Sciences by Subject "International Affairs"

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  • Assertive, But Alone 
    Katz, Mark N. (Chatham House, 2007)
    Some would say that Russian foreign policy has become belligerent. But the strident, confident tone is playing well at home in this election season. More discerning domestic commentators are pointing out that it is simply ...
  • Election Day in Aden 
    Katz, Mark N. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1997)
  • The Emerging Saudi-Russian Partnership 
    Katz, Mark N. (Mideast Monitor, 2008)
  • Implications of the Georgian Crisis for Israel, Iran and the West 
    Katz, Mark N. (2008-12)
    Abstract: The August 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia has not only had a strong impact on the United States and Europe, but also on Israel and Iran. This article examines Israeli and Iranian reactions to the crisis, ...
  • Obama's Approach to Russia and Iran 
    Katz, Mark N. (2010-01-11)
    A journalist has described Obama’s approach to foreign policy as “applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Chicago’s South Side.” But these tools are likely to be ...
  • Playing the Angles: Russian diplomacy before and during the war in Iraq 
    Katz, Mark N. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003)
    In the lead-up to and during the American-led intervention in Iraq this year, the Putin administration had several goals: - To work in partnership with other nations, especially France and Germany, to prevent the United ...
  • Policy Watch: America, Russia and Iran 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-06-25)
    Vladimir Putin's offer to contribute the Soviet-era radar installation in Azerbaijan to a ballistic missile defense system aimed at rogue states was not only a surprise to the United States, but also to Iran.
  • Policy Watch: Assessing Putin's legacy 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-07-13)
    With Russian President Vladimir Putin slated to leave office in less than a year, what can be said about how history will judge him? He definitely has positive accomplishments to boast about: restoring order after the chaos ...
  • Policy Watch: Azerbaijan's Geopolitics 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-08-20)
    "The geopolitics of Azerbaijan are complex. And they could become even more so. But first, something must be said about what exactly geopolitics are, and what is involved. 1. Identifying a country's strengths and weakness ...
  • Policy Watch: Blair's Mideast logic flawed 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-11-17)
    "British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the U.S. government-sponsored Iraq Study Group that pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement ""was the only way"" to bring about long-term stability to Iraq and the ...
  • Policy Watch: Can a Surge Succeed? 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-12-29)
    "Retired U.S. Army General Jack Keane and American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederic W. Kagan have argued that any ""surge"" of additional American troops to Iraq should be ""large and lasting."" In a Washington Post ...
  • Policy Watch: China and Iraq 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-01-26)
    Right in the midst of the Bush administration's preparations to send even more American troops to Iraq came news that China successfully fired a missile to destroy one of its own satellites earlier this month. While Chinese ...
  • Policy Watch: Citizen Bush 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-01-19)
    The November 2006 Congressional elections made clear that a majority of the American voters no longer support the war in Iraq. The Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and former ...
  • Policy Watch: Eyeing the Shanghai group 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-06-02)
    The annual summit of the presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take place this coming August in Kyrgyzstan. The SCO groups together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The ...
  • Policy Watch: Garbo and the GWOT 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-09-15)
    "Greta Garbo's 1939 film ""Ninotchka"" can teach us much about how the Global War on Terror (or GWOT) can be won."
  • Policy Watch: Haleh Esfandiari's plight 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-05-11)
    An Iranian-American scholar who directs the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington was jailed in Tehran earlier this week. Haleh Esfandiari had gone to Iran late last year ...
  • Policy Watch: Help from Syria and Iran? 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2006-12-01)
    One idea being floated for resolving the conflict in Iraq is for the United States to get help in doing this from Iran and Syria -- two governments that Washington has long had hostile relations with. It is highly doubtful ...
  • Policy Watch: How multipolar is Moscow? 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-03-03)
    "Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently called for the creation of a ""multipolar"" world in order to limit America's ability to act unilaterally without consulting others, especially him. Putin has encouraged ...
  • Policy Watch: Impact of Britain's drawdown 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-02-23)
    Tony Blair's announcement that Britain will reduce its troop presence in Iraq from 7,100 to 5,500 by the end of summer, and possibly to 5,000 by the end of 2007 has come as a shock to the Bush administration. After all, ...
  • Policy Watch: In praise of pessimism 
    Katz, Mark N. (UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.), 2007-06-05)
    Many of these columns have been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Others have been critical of American President George W. Bush. Those who object to my criticism of Putin see me as a conservative, while those ...

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