Matthew Crosston
22.02.2015
America’s National Security Schizophrenia: Da...
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in…
14.02.2015
Cold War Triumphalism and Chicken-and-Egg Dil...
There is a decided chicken-and-egg quality when trying to unravel Russian-American relations. The general pessimism and pejorative characterizations that come…
05.02.2015
Keeping Russia the Enemy: Congressional Attit...
America seems reluctant in accepting the fairly benign fact that countries do not like to be dictated to and thus…
01.02.2015
US-Russia Relations: The Problem of Intellect...
There are numerous think tanks, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the state of…
18.01.2015
Islamism and the Exploitation of Women
The events in Paris are unfortunately all too familiar in the 21st century. I think in some corners it is…
06.01.2015
The Saudi Bait-and-Switch: Incurring Short-te...
Western media members are currently basking in what to them seems to be a story of economic ‘come-uppance.’ Saudi Arabia…
22.12.2014
Old American Punishment, New Russian Strength...
On December 18 President Vladimir Putin gave his traditional end-of-year holiday speech. Think of it as a Russian version of…
15.12.2014
American Duplicity and Twisting in Our Own To...
So the United States Senate has released its report highlighting extreme and supposedly ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after…
08.12.2014
Prisoners of Preconception – The Problems of ...
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ and preconceptions.…
26.11.2014
Bears and Byzantium: How America Misreads Rus...
Common complaints within Intelligence Studies about the examination of foreign intelligence communities, especially those not residing in the west, run…
31.10.2014
The American Failure behind ‘Grand Strategic ...
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…
