The Unspoken Alliance The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa By Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Pantheon Books, 336 pages In The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Sasha Polakow-Suransky depicts the decades-long military and diplomatic relationship between Israel and South Africa, a relationship that persisted during the most violent years of apartheid rule, when South Africa faced the...
Little War, Big Problems A Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West By Ronald D. Asmus, Palgrave MacMillan, 272 Pages No current nation al leader possesses more cunning than Vladimir Putin. Evenhis present position as Russia’s prime minister and putative second-in-command allows for a degree of strategic cover that the former president has...
What Price Popularity? Pursuing the favour of global publics has not shown the results President Obama heralded; it may be making things worse. Barack Obama entered the White House riding a wave of popularity around the world unparalleled in recent political history. His margin of victory among American voters in last November’s presidential election was 6 percentage points;...