SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
On Geopolitics
‘Our Enduring Disorder’: An interview with Author, and Libya Expert Jason Pack
International Policy Digest
To understand where things currently stand in Libya, we turned to Libya expert and historian Jason Pack. Besides developments in Libya, we also touched on the war in Ukraine, Russian President…
Is it Possible to Make a Deal with Putin?
Voice Of America
As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its third month, questions have swirled about whether a negotiated solution with Russian President Vladimir Putin is possible…
Is Negotiating with Putin even possible at this point?
The Cipher Brief
The war in Ukraine has now moved into its second, more protracted, and likely more violent phase. Unsurprisingly, given the extent of Russian atrocities, ongoing negotiations have borne little fruit…
Think Tank Scholarship on Libya
Turning the Tide: How Turkey Won the War for Tripoli
Middle East Institute
The War for Tripoli, launched by Gen. Khalifa Hifter in April 2019, came to an abrupt end in June...
Kingdom of Militias: Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession
Institute for International Political Studies
In early April 2019, General Khalifa Haftar instructed the Libyan National Army (LNA) to take...
The Islamic State’s Revitalization in Libya and its Post-2016 War of Attrition
Combating Terrorism Center
Abstract: Following its territorial loss of Sirte in December 2016, the Islamic State in Libya has...
Scholarship on the Libyan Economy
An International Financial Commission is Libya’s Last Hope
Middle East Institute
For the last six years, the international community has tried a range of different approaches to...
The UN deliberately (albeit mistakenly) accorded sovereignty to post-Gadhafi Libya’s economic institutions
Middle East Institute
For many decades now, the United Nations has had a whole host of critics on the global right. Over...
How Libya’s economic structures enrich the militias
Middle East Institute
Largely overlooked in international policymaking toward Libya’s current conflict is the role of...
Cultural Commenatry
Sympathy for the Devil: Stalin in his Own Words
International Policy Digest
In his latest work, I, Stalin, Martin Van Creveld asks us to have sympathy for the devil…
How to Avoid the Second American Civil War
The National Interest
This November, a second American civil war could erupt when one side loses the elections and the...
The Hungary Model: Resurgent Nationalism
The National Interest
"As if by some undiscovered Newtonian law, today's attempts at humanitarian internationalism are...
On Wine
Our Shared Humanity, Middle Eastern Hospitality, and Authentic Georgian Wine Reinterpreted for Our Covid Christmas
The Middle East Institute
Newspaper op-eds and think tank blogs during the Christmas season are usually filled with abstract...
Serendipity in the Caucasus
Wine Sofa
The current craze for organic, natural and culturally authentic food products has a mirror in the...
A Tokaj Adventure Part I.
Wine Sofa
Like fine wine, a good anecdote should improve with age. The telling and retelling hones the...