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Edward N. Luttwak

Architect of an original international relations theory asserting the supremacy of geo-economy over geopolitics, Edward N. Luttwak is a member of the National Security Study Group at the U.S. Defense Department. He is also a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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In Syria, America Loses if Either Side Wins

by Edward N. Luttwak

New York (USA) | 24 August 2013

On Wednesday, reports surfaced of a mass chemical-weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs that human rights activists claim killed hundreds of civilians, bringing Syria’s continuing civil war back onto the White House’s foreign policy radar, even as the crisis in Egypt worsens.
But the Obama (…)

“Teheran’s Populist Leader Clashes With The People”

by Edward N. Luttwak

4 July 2005

Mahmud Ahmadineyad - winner of the Iran presidential elections version - has been deceitfully presented as an ultraconservative. Actually, he is a fundamentalist, xenophobe and populist who thinks that Iran has become too tolerant regarding sex, and too moderate in foreign policy. He drove a (…)