As I Sea It

All Articles 

Presented by subject area within a geographic region:

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Where Chaos is King and Plunder Is Privilege
  
• How to Win Peace in Afghanistan for Half the Price of a War
• Fighting by the Book, Failing by Design: The U.S. Military’s Inherent Conflict of Interest with Peace in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan in the Throes of Nation Building and Military Build-up
  
• Obama's Last Stand on Afghanistan: A Strategy With No Foresight
• Can We Afford Another Failed State in Afghanistan? Beyond the 2014 Drawdown 
  
• Afghanistan Exit Strategy: How Bilateral is the Security Agreement
  
• Drone Wars Terrorize Friends into Enemies
  
• NATO’s Third Alternative in Afghanistan
  
• How We Messed Up a Flourishing Gun-barrel Democracy
  

Global Politics

• When the Prophet of Peace Meets the Prophet of War: An Analysis of the Hubris Syndrome in Governance 
  
• Terrorism, If Correctly Identified, Can Be Cured
  
• Disowning ‘Otherness' in Norway’s Nightmare and Europe’s Long Past of Cultural Intolerance 
  
• Why is the European Union Haunted by Its Rejection of Turkey?
  

American Politics

• Is American Gun Culture Compatible with a Modern Civil Society?
  
• It's Time to Crash the Parties
  
• Provocation or Freedom of Expression
  
• We Must Wage War on War to Keep the Republic Public
  
• Downgrading American Democracy: Is There Any Left for the Rest of Us?
  

Southwest Asia (The Near East)

• Understanding Syria: How a Cold Front Chilled the Damascus Spring
• When an Arab Spring Is Neither
  
• Egypt and America in Historical Twists of Ironies
  
• The Greatest Danger in the Kurdish Crisis 
  
• The Implosions of International Relationships in the Mideast
• The Politics of Polarization
• Silencing the Call of Democracy and Hijacking the Arab Revolution: Hidden Agenda and Secret Alliances Behind the Libyan Crisis
  

Russia in Central Asia and the Caucasus

• 1. Russian-Muslim Conflicts in Caucasia and Beyond
• 2. Chechnya Will Rise From Ashes Again?
• 3. Russian-Muslim Conflicts in Central Asia
• 4. The Legacy of Russia's Ostpolitik
  
• 5. Russia's Religious Intolerance
  

Religion