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The Guardian : Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos
n the chilly pre-dawn gloom one recent morning, Father Makarios hurried to his chapel, one of dozens of churches and cathedrals across Mount Athos, to perform morning liturgy. A two-hour marathon of biblical recitations and sonorous chanting, it would be just one of...
The New York Times : As Ukraine and Russia Battle Over Orthodoxy, Schism Looms
By Andrew Higgins Dec. 31, 2018 CHERNYTSYA, Ukraine — Ukraine is on the verge of opening the biggest schism in Christianity in centuries, as it breaks from the authority of a Moscow-based patriarch and this week expects to formally gain recognition for its own church,...
The Guardian view on the Orthodox schism: theology and low politics
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who reigns in Constantinople, has a magnificent title which corresponds to almost nothing on earth. Although he represents an unbroken tradition of almost 2,000 years of Christianity, Constantinople has been the Muslim city of...
Trump’s strategic unpredictability, its pros and its cons
By Colin Dueck, National Review What can be an asset against adversaries is often a liability with allies. “Don’t hold the ball so hard, okay? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” — Crash Davis, Bull Durham President Trump’s sudden December announcement of U.S. military...
The U.S. Military’s Crisis of Imagination
By Seth Cropsey & Douglas J. Feith, Hudson Institute At the heart of national-security strategy is imagination. The strategist’s job is to dream up what enemies someday might do to harm us. But there’s a lot of history supporting the adage that generals forever...
From ‘Turn to the East’ to ‘Greater Eurasia’: Russia’s Abortive Search for a Far East Strategy
By: Sergey Sukhankin, Eurasia Daily Monitor On November 14, Dmitry Peskov the press secretary for the president of Russia, stated, “I am not a supporter of the theory that Russia is making some sort of drift to the East […] these words were said by political...
2019: 10 Conflicts to Watch
As U.S. leadership of the international order fades, more countries are seeking to bolster their influence by meddling in foreign conflicts. In this new era of limit testing, Crisis Group’s President Robert Malley lists the Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2019. Robert...
ISIL and al-Qaeda booksellers are thriving in Erdoğan’s Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt An al-Qaeda-linked bookstore owner in Istanbul who has been selling jihadist books to Turks continues to operate without many obstacles despite a clear pattern of radicalization among Turks who derive guidance from the poisonous literature,...
Turkey’s War on Christian Missionaries
by Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute American Pastor Andrew Brunson and American-Canadian evangelist David Byle are among many Christian clerics who have fallen victim to Turkey's aversion to Christianity. According to Claire Evans, regional manager of the organization...
Shoring Up NATO Is in Europe’s Own Interest
Increased European investment in defense is about more than just “burden sharing” or Europe paying its “fair share.” Europe’s vital national security interests–and the future of the West—are at stake. By ANDREW A. MICHTA, The American Interest he United States is now...
NATO Owes Secretary Mattis a Debt of Gratitude
BY JAMIE SHEA, Atlantic Council Back in the spring of 2008, I was enjoying a quiet moment in my office at NATO headquarters when the phone rang. My assistant told me that the new Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), Gen. James Mattis, was making his...
Is there a glimmer of hope for the INF Treaty?
Steven Pifer, Brookings Institute On December 21, the United Nations General Assembly voted down a Russian-proposed resolution calling for support for the INF Treaty. That Moscow gambit failed, in large part because Russia is violating the treaty by deploying...