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Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles, is the author of The Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad. He currently teaches international relations at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Articles and Posts by Srdja Trifkovic:

  • Turkey: The AKP Regime Is Not in Trouble, But Erdogan Is(0)

    Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdogan’s decade-old, increasingly personal rule is being challenged from unexpected quarters: from his fellow religious conservatives who resent his authoritarian style and arrogance.

  • The Least Bad Option in Syria(9)

    Until a few weeks ago, political leaders in the United States and Western Europe had claimed with monotonous regularity that the government of Syria was on the verge of collapse.

  • Jihadophilia(4)

    J. is characterized by a breakdown of the ability to name Muslims as perpetrators of the acts of Islamic terrorism, by the tendency to systematically ignore Islam as a factor in terrorist attacks or to deny its relevance in such attacks, and by an acute deficit of the capacity or will to provide appropriate institutional or emotional responses to such attacks.

  • Dominique Venner, a French Samurai(61)

    Dominique Venner, prominent French author and much-decorated Algerian war veteran who shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on May 21, was a determined foe of homosexual “marriage”—which was legalized in France last weekend—and the threat of Islam to the French society.

  • Letter From Budapest: A Hungarian Rhapsody(3)

    Here is a decent little country in the heart of Europe—good food, safe streets, rich soil—which could be a Pannonian version of Holland, but it is not a happy place.

  • Benghazi: The Undoing of Hillary(26)

    It remains to be seen who will be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016. After this week’s congressional hearings on Benghazi it is certain that Hillary Clinton—the worst Secretary of State in American history—will not be that person.

  • The Lessons of Boston(13)

    Three weeks after the bombings it is possible to make some firm and a few tentative conclusions. The most important fact is that the outrage was an act of Islamic terrorism.

  • Kosovo, a Frozen Conflict(10)

    Until a week ago it appeared that the government in Belgrade would give up the last vestiges of its claim to Kosovo for the sake of some indeterminate date in the future when Serbia may join the European Union.

  • A Storm in a Korean Teacup(3)

    On April 4 the Pentagon announced that it was sending a mobile missile defense system to Guam as a “precautionary move” to protect the island from the potential threat from North Korea.

  • The EU’s Iffy Eastern Partners(1)

    One variant of a well-known law of bureaucracy says that the amount of time spent discussing a budgetary decision is inversely proportional to the magnitude of the budget in question. Judging by what I witnessed on March 20 at the European Parliament, the Brussels machine functions entirely in accordance with this adage.