Epstein Secrets

most assumed that peace would prove durable. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions are

Propaganda at Home and Abroad The following propositions have all appeared in the Russian media over the past few years: ¢ The United States hired Islamic State terrorists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. ¢ A three-year-old boy was crucified b

EMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians In May 2014, Putin signed a new law that criminalized the purposeful distortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to historians who, for example, criticize Stalin's Great Terror and its decimation of the military

dical Islamist groups and trying to wreak havoc where they can. About 30,000 Muslim fighters from all over the world, including the West, have joined the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). But however much they constitute a major global security problem, they are dwarfed by, say, the 200 million nonradical Muslims

centuate the process of civilizational fusion. In contrast to China and India, Russia has held back from thoroughly embracing modernity, even though the Soviet Union started modernizing before China and India. Russia hesitated to join the World Trade Organization and has not yet accepted that ungrudging participat

nation to admit failure, trading a losing strategy for a fresh course has brought such triumphs as the Nixon-Kissinger pacts with China that isolated the Soviet Union and helped to end the Cold War. Today, America faces just such a reckoning in the Middle East. Our objective is clear: halting the spread of terroris

notion that Saudi Arabia is synonymous with radical Islam is falsely based on the Western notion that "one size fits all." Fundamentalists supporting the Islamic State in the Kingdom violate the rule of law at home, and the Saudis' strong efforts to prevent the export of terrorism. Saudi senior leaders desire good r