Matthew Crosston
31.10.2014
The American Failure behind ‘Grand Strategic Cultures’ and Modern Conflict
This work is about how a specific conceptualization of ‘culture’ in intelligence studies, amongst scholars at first but subsequently practitioners…
20.09.2014
Economic Espionage: The Curse of ‘Soft Spying’
Despite Hollywood romanticizing about Bonds and Bournes, one of the most prevalent forms of modern intelligence activity is also arguably…
14.09.2014
Targeted Killings Are Coming Back to the US
While most international organizations and foreign states have made attempts to explicitly fuse drones and targeted killing to already established…
09.09.2014
NATO: A Great and Mighty Wind, Signifying Nothing
The surrealism of the Ukrainian conflict continued last week, with the 28 members of the NATO alliance meeting in a…
22.08.2014
Obama v. Putin – A Tale of a Posturing President
Less than two weeks ago President Obama, sitting for an interview with The Economist magazine, basically went ‘old school’ on…
15.08.2014
Cold War Think Tanks: Back to Business
2014 is starting to look and sound and feel an awful lot like 1964. If you find yourself sitting at…
30.07.2014
Ukraine: This Little Piggy Won’t be Missed
One of the odd things inevitably lost in the mire and labyrinth of complex high politics is how often executive…
23.07.2014
Yemen: A handful of Special Interests
The percentage of Americans who have heard of Yemen is undoubtedly small. Still fewer could locate it on a map.…
17.07.2014
Saving Lives or Saving Face? Sanctions, Russia, and the West
New sanctions were levied against Russia on July 16th by both the United States and the European Union. America has…
26.06.2014
Iraq: The Strange Partners of Foreign Affairs
Judging by any host of news organizations and commentary shows on television you would think Iraq has already fallen completely…
19.06.2014
The Fast and the Furious in Gas Geopolitics
The interplay between Ukraine and Russia when it comes to gas geopolitics goes far beyond economic negotiations and development. It…
14.06.2014
To Live and Die in Donetsk
Not that anyone would notice, but there is a disturbing and quite frankly depressing reality taking place in eastern Ukraine.…
