Srdja Trifkovic, foreign-affairs editor for Chronicles, is the author of several books, including The Sword of the Prophet: Islam—History, Theology, Impact on the World.
ARTICLES BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR:
An American Non-Hero
After Helsinki: A Coup in the Making
Erdogan Unleashed
Trump’s Iranian Gamble
Syria: A Deep State Victory
Worse Than a Neocon
Fiddling on the Brink
Hawks Win
Neocon Security Strategy
Trump’s First Year
Whither Europe?
The Birth of National-Globalism
A Tale of Two Revolutions
Rumors of War
Travel Ban, and Beyond
Wahhabism First
Adieu, France
Confronting Russophobia
A Coup Most Foul
Dealing With China
Depoliticizing Intelligence
Dismantling the Empire
Global Challenges in 2017
Ashton Carter’s Flawed Strategy
The Summer of Erdogan’s Content
Confronting Jihad
England’s Independence Day
Strategic Crossroads
Trump’s Global Vision
A Myth Demolished
Avoiding Europe’s Mistakes
Turkey’s Recklessness
A Halting Dragon
Europe Under Siege
Erdogan’s Ambush
Moscow Notebook
Syria: Time for Maturity
Europe’s Ongoing Demise
The Iran Deal in Context
Bumpy BRICS Road
An Unhinged World
The Third Muslim Invasion
Israel’s House Divided
A Towering Genius, Greatly Missed
A Jihadist Victory
Putin’s Uneasy Balancing Act
Rudderless at the Pentagon
Putin’s Valdai Speech
Another Unwinnable War
Staying Out of Another War
Strategic Blunders
A Joint Criminal Conspiracy
A Big Deal
The Folly of Overreach
Moscow Rules
Eastern Approaches
In Praise of Geopolitics
A Vanishing Nation
Global Security Challenges in 2014
The Middle East: Steady as She Goes
An Uncertain Asian Pivot
A Failure of Intelligence
Syria: Avoiding Another Quagmire
A Tale of Two Islamists
A Scandalous Presidency
Obama, Relationship Therapist
In Praise of Nuclear Proliferation
Second-Time Charms
Managing the Quagmire
One Crisis Averted
A Giant Maligned
Turkey's Gamble
The Blowback
Grand Strategy Revisited
Worst Secretary of State in History
The Myth of the "Arab Spring"
NATO's Pointless Summit
Rumors of War Receding
The Afghan Quagmire
An American Revolution
Inventing the European Union
An Unjustified War
Avoiding the Iranian Debacle
Scolding China
Russian Reset in Peril
Running On Empty
Arabian Fall
Time for Disengagment
A Speech of No Consequence
Our Interest in Turkey
Arabian Limbo
The Libyan War
Road to Damascus
Egypt's Non-Revolution
The Eurozone: Time for a Divorce
State of the Tepid
The Pathology of U.S. Diplomacy
Catching a Snake
Another New NATO
WikiLeaks
World of War
Neo—Ottomans Triumphant
Standing Straight
The Path to Modernity
New From Israel
The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan
On the Quai at Smyrna
Jovan Trboyevic, R.I.P.
Swiss Minarets
A Tale of Two Subversives
Alex Dragnich, R.I.P.
The North Worth Saving
Patriarch Alesky, R.I.P
The Clintons Are Back
A New Grand Strategy
Olmert's Bombshell
Unstable Multipolarity
Caucasian Trap
Witness to the Truth: Through Every Human Heart
Chronicle of an Announced Arrest
The E.U.S.S.R. Marches On
The Dream Ticket
Olmert's Troubles
It’s 2028, and All Is Well
Smokers in the Arsenal
Kosovo Crisis Becomes Global
Waiting for the Big One
Bobby Fischer, R.I.P.
So Goes Old Europe
The Empire: Not So Great in ’08
A New Balance of Power
The Death of Genocide
Staying the Course
A Divided Subcontinent
The President’s Painted Corner
Waiting for Greatness
Conservative Russia, Imperial America
Balkan Blowback
Wolfowitz in Love
“A Pure American Type of a Rather Rare Species”
A Mainstream Conservative
Sharia Comes to Germany
A Tale of Two Cabals
Kosovo Gets Interesting
Exiting Iraq: The Least Undesirable End
Domestic Distraction
The Grass Is Not Greener
The Shiite Gallows
Iraq: The Least Bad Scenario
Rummy Reduced
Eurabian Nights: A Horror Travelogue
Terror on the Underground
To Lose a War
Oriana Fallaci, R.I.P.
A Turbulent Layman
Sir Alfred Sherman, R.I.P.
An Undesirable Independence
The Destruction of Lebanon
Decline Without Fall
A Serious Third Party?
Israeli-Arab Conflict
One Hell for All
Violence in Iraq
Neglected New Martyrs
A Balkan Tragedy
Hell in Panonia
Muslim Rage and American Folly
Victim of Jiihadism
Profiling and Spying: A Necessary Evil
Peace in the Holy Land, Elusive as Ever
A Confusing Message
History Is Contemporary
Trouble With Iran
Sunni Arab Prisoners Freed
Jihad's Enablers
Afghanistan's Democratic Process
An Unsteady Empire
"Global Initiative"
Intrigue in the Balkans
European Disunion
Getting China Straight
Iraq: The Way Out
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy, Part II
The Real Issue With the Newsweek Koran Fib
Rejecting Proposals
Getting Europe Straight
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
The Impact of Islam on the Arab-Israeli Dispute
A Morbid Quest
Global Anarcho-Tyranny
Territorial Compromise
A Glimmer of Hope in the Holy Land
Rumsfeld Stays
European Bushophobia
Obstacle to Fresh Vision
The Jihadist Fifth Column: The Cure
After Beslan: Change Course on Russia
Redeployment of U.S. Forces Overseas: Long Overdue, Too Slow
Former World Chess Champion
The Perils of “United Europe”
Consequences of E.U. Enlargement
"No Credible Evidence"
CAIR and the ADL: Partnership for Hate
Failing America
Violence in Iraq
Europe and America
Elephant Amok
The Victory of Fear in Spain
The Assassination of Yassin
Pakistan’s Nuclear Proliferation
The Balkan Terror Threat
George Soros, Postmodern Villain
The Battle for Bush’s Ear and Soul
Mr. Bush and Democracy in the Middle East
Lord Ashdown’s Balkan Fiefdom
Out of Korea
The Iraq Quagmire
Reforming the Military
Out of Africa
Exiting Iraq
Where Are Our Principles?
Fragile Empire
A Surprising Unsureness of Touch
A Road Map to Nowhere?
Iraq's Collapse
Turkish Delights
Yugoslavia, R.I.P.
Privatization in Serbia
Same Old Song and Dance
Europe Skeptical About NATO Enlargement
The Justification for War
Pakistan, Our Untrustworthy Partner
Middle East Resources
Another World
Turkey Goes Islamic
Francophile Pursuits
The Hollow Empire
Baghdad or Pyongyang?
An Invalid Election
Serbia’s Presidential Election
Winning Another Term
The Coming War in Iraq: Dangerous and Unnecessary
Another Bailout
A “Communist” Education Remembered
Corporate America in Crisis
Bush’s Middle East Policy: Mendacity, Folly, or Both?
Foiling a Terrorist Plot
Transatlantic Rifts
In Memoriam: Gen. Alexander Lebed, 1950-2002
Tapping into Concerns
Milosevic on Trial
State of the Union: An Empire, Not a Republic
We Are the World
Time for Arafat to Go
Afghanistan and Oil
Osama bin Laden: The Balkan Connection
The Coming Ordeal
Memorandum to President George W. Bush
A State Visit
NATO Expansion: Harmful and Dangerous
National Missile Defense
Averting War With China
Nation-Building
Robert Hanssen and the New Meaning of Treason
Roman Spies and Spies in Rome
Sharon's Victory and U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Talks in Belgrade
Will President Bush Resist the Global Interventionists?
Athenian Hegemony and Its Lessons for America
Marx, Albright, Blair & Gates
A Balkans Policy for the New Administration
Let the Counterrevolution Begin
NATO, R.I.P.
Serbia Degraded
The Serbs and the West
Taking to the Streets
National Missile-Defense Deployment Postponed
Millennial Summit
Mexico Under New Management: Wish Them Well, and Build That Fence
A Genuine Centrist
The International Criminal Court: Clinton's Frankenstein's Monster
Political Parties in Serbia
FDR and Mussolini
Peking, the White House, and Wall Street Versus Main Street
A Consummate Politician
Gore's Foreign Policy: More of the Same, Only Worse
Zimbabwe in Turmoil
The Taiwanese Election: Implications for U.S. Security
Inheriting a Mess
Post-Human America
Looming Large
We Are Right on Foreign Affairs Because We Are Right on Everything
Defending the West . . . Against Itself
Clinton's Acquittal
Split-Run Issues
Multiculturalism and Islam
America's Eroding Influence in Europe
A Latter-Day Munich
Dayton Discord
Well Supplied
Albanian Separatists
A Democratic Politician
Christmas Visit to Bosnia
A Traditionalists' Alliance
Diana's Image
The Albright-Soros Attack on the Nation-State
Three New Members
Slobodan Miloševic, Our S.O.B.
Hobbesian State of Anarchy
A Lurid Melodrama
Why Milosevic Must Go
The Fixer
The Hague Tribunal: Bad Justice, Worse Politics
A Dirty Little Secret