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1. Conversation impossible with today’s nationalist and religious states

   With the eruption of ISIS in the Middle East and the ongoing autocracies in Russia and China, pause for a moment and think back to the last century and compare the challenges back then to now. Odd as it may seem, in retrospect, liberal ...

2. Nationalist and religious states aren’t interested in conversation

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver Perhaps we should be mourning the passing of the Soviet empire. With the eruption of ISIS in the Middle East and the ongoing autocracies in Russia and China, pause for a moment and think back to the last century and ...

3. Little reason to expect agreement between democracies and the rest

   Appeared in the Okanagan Saturday, Waterloo Region Record, and Trail Daily Times International talks often become forums of mutual incomprehension as the world again breaks into two opposing camps with two incompatible worldviews: “the democracies” and ...

4. Putin's impatience over Crimea a strategic error

   Appeared in the Okanagan Saturday Napoleon famously cautioned against interfering with an enemy making a mistake. So why is the West interfering with Vladimir Putin’s massive mistake in Crimea? More puzzling is the West’s unstated goal of legitimizing ...