Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 awakened the worst memories for Georgians. If Russian President Vladimir Putin's plan to take Kyiv within a few days was successful, Georgia, ...

In the 1930s, the policy of appeasement was adopted as diplomatic maneuvers primarily led by Britain and France to avoid another major conflict by allowing certain concessions to particularly Nazi ...

In the minds of some, it is forever 1938. Whether the actual year is 1950, 1962, 1990 or even today, it is always that fateful annus horribilis when a Western politician is confronted by a bullying ...

With all the toing and froing between President Biden and his various spokespeople, including National Security Council adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and various ...

The world’s biggest exiled Iranian dissident movement will hold its annual rally this weekend to call for regime change in Iran and to push the U.S. and Western nations to adopt a firmer policy rather ...

In a joint statement at last week’s UN Security Council, the co-signatories from the UK, France and Germany stated: “Neither Russia nor Iran have ever sought authorisation for these transfers, which ...

Let’s not confuse diplomacy and appeasement. Diplomacy is always the preferred choice, and the military option is the last. Diplomacy is most effective when backed by non-lethal actions, primarily ...

In September 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, falsely claiming that Czechoslovakia was oppressing its German minority in the border region of the Sudetenland, was about to attack that country.

Despite having failed spectacularly, Britain’s policy of appeasing Adolf Hitler in the 1930s has never lacked for apologists. Many leading figures at the time and large numbers of historians since ...

President Barack Obama talks with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Colin Kahl, National Security Adviser to the Vice President, and National Security Adviser Susan Rice outside ...

When one says appeasement, one would normally think of dialogue, compromise, moderation, civilization. Personally, I think of détente, rapprochement, truce, reconciliation. I think of the necessity of ...