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As the Russo-Ukraine War trudges along with no end in sight, fear flourishes, frustration grows, and rumors proliferate. Among the most recent rumors in the “peace camp” is that NATO is planning to declare war on Russia. Insinuating that nothing can be done, the die has apparently been cast. Even were this the case, however,…

Not discretion, but clarity is the better part of valor. Ukraine has courageously resisted the imperialist assault on its sovereignty by Russia whose most important war aims reach back to Peter the Great. Russia wants access to warm-water ports, and buffers against invasion to its West and North. Whatever the successes of Russia’s incursion into…

O , some authority how to proceed; Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil. — William Shakespeare Ukraine is turning into a landscape of blood-stained rubble. Thousands have been killed and wounded while possibly millions of refugees, and internally displaced people (IDPs), are on the move. $100 billion in Ukrainian infrastructure and housing…

An Appeal from a Coalition of Ukrainian Associations  Events in Ukraine are unfolding rapidly and catastrophically. The National Platform for Reconciliation and Unity (NPRU) had warned about a possible war for years, which it has tried to prevent. In collaboration with The International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (ICDD), its representatives hope to engage the…

Bombs are falling on Kharkiv and Kyiv and Russia in what has become the largest and bloodiest conflict Europe has experienced since World War II. Roughly two thousand Ukrainians have been killed or wounded, somewhat fewer Russians, and hundreds of thousands will soon become refugees. President Vladimir Putin has surrounded Ukraine with 190,000 troops as…

The United States is in the midst of an existential and political crisis. Understanding it calls for investigating anti-democratic choices made when the nation was in its infancy. America never had a great political thinker on the level of Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, or Hegel. In fact, its theory of governance can probably be boiled down…

In the absence of any crisis, Middle East politics carry a lot of weight in US presidential elections, and there is a deeper divide between Republicans and Democrats over the policies to follow in the region. Will this be the case with this year’s race for the White House? MEMO caught up with Professor Emeritus…

An interview with Professor Stephen Bronner, by Elif Selin Calik The Emeritus Professor of Political Science and a member of the Graduate Faculties of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Stephen Eric Bronner, has spoken out on the two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and stressed his support for fostering…