February 19, 2016 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Erdogan, Graham Fuller, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, US foreign policy •
How Can Turkey Overcome its Foreign policy Mess? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 18 February 2016 What does Turkey need to do to overcome its present foreign policy fiasco, one of the worst in modern Turkish history? The irony of all this is that those directly responsible for this mess—the team of Recep Tayip Erdogan (now […]
February 13, 2016 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: China, decline, Eurasia, Graham Fuller, NATO, new global order, Russia •
NATO—America’s Misguided Instrument of Leadership Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 13 February 2016 On the world scene, America is a declining power. This decline is in part domestic and self-inflicted, reflecting a certain weariness and neglect of our social order. No amount of huffing and puffing from politicians will significantly change this decline. But the decline […]
January 11, 2016 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Erdogan, Graham Fuller, Iran, ISIS, Russia, Syria, Turkey •
Fuller’s Last Year (2015) Predictions— Part 2 Prediction on Turkey: (I was considerably off base on this one) 2015 Prediction:President Erdoğan in Turkey will find his influence beginning to crumble in 2015. After a brilliant prime-ministership for the first decade of AKP power, he has become mired in corruption charges and has lashed out in […]
December 31, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Erdogan, EU, Graham Fuller, ISIS, IUS policy, Russia, Turkey •
Graham Fuller’s Scorecard on Predictions for 2015 30 December 2015 Having rashly ventured last year into making predictions for the coming year of 2015 in the Middle East, how do those assessments bear up today, one year later? This self-graded scorecard comes in two separate articles: due to space limitations I take up here today […]
November 15, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Iran, ISIS, Kurds, Paris bombings, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, UN, US •
ISIS- The Hour Has Struck Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 14 November 2015 ISIS, with its horrific attack on purely civilian targets in Paris, has established new realities about its nature, capabilities and intentions. The need for its elimination can now no longer be in doubt. It is not that Parisian lives are more important than […]
October 22, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Graham Fuller, Humpty Dumpty, international cooperation, ISIS, jihadis, Russia, US •
Humpty Dumpty —Can the Middle East be put back together again? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 22 October 2015 As mayhem and anarchy spread like a contagion across the Middle East, can the Middle East, like Humpty Dumpty, be put back together again? Some pundits say no. Yet, for a variety of […]
October 8, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Graham Fuller, Iran, ISIS, Russia, Syria, US •
We Hate ‘Em All! Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 8 October 2015 With the arrival of Russian forces on the scene the Syrian situation has now grown unbearably complicated. Among the totality of players on the scene, Washington hates them all. The US has long detested Asad father and son; for years it has attempted to […]
September 29, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: China, Graham Fuller, propaganda, Russia •
The Value of Reading Propaganda Graham E. Fuller 29 September 2015 All countries do it—promoting their own societies in ideal terms in order to influence others. The US devotes a huge amount of time and money to selling its self-image and a view of the world as seen through American eyes—and perhaps denigrating others as […]
September 15, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Asad, Graham Fuller, Iran, Russia, Syria, US •
The Russians are Coming! Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 14 September 2015 Washington has been wrapped in confusion and indecision for years now in trying to sort out just what its real objectives are in Syria. Its obsessive, and ultimately failed goal of denying Iran influence in the Middle East has notably receded with Obama’s admirable […]
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NATO versus the EU?
July 9, 2016 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: EU, NATO, Russia, US foreign policy •
NATO versus the EU? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 9 July 2016 The NATO summit is over. Most Americans unfailingly believe NATO generously serves EU interests. Yet many Europeans don’t see it that way. They fear that NATO actually undermines a balanced Europe. Is it NATO with the EU? Or NATO versus the EU? The two […]
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