Freedom from Fear: Not in North Korea (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Hudson Institute)

Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the State of the Union address that came to be known as the Four Freedoms speech, the freedoms he enumerated, and the lack of them, are embodied in a single, divided country: Korea.

http://www.hudson.org/research/12910-freedom-from-fear-not-in-north-korea

What Exactly Is Going On In Ukraine? (Hannah Thoburn, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12731-what-exactly-is-going-on-in-ukraine

Only the US Can Stop China's Maritime Aggression (Arthur Herman, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12730-only-the-us-can-stop-china-s-maritime-aggression

Political Mobilization of Indian Americans (Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/events/1343-political-mobilization-of-indian-americans62016

Don't Lift Russia's Sanctions Yet (Benjamin Haddad, Hannah Thoburn, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12560-don-t-lift-russia-s-sanctions-yet

Obama Backing Away From Nuclear Modernization (Rebeccah L. Heinrichs, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12559-obama-backing-away-from-nuclear-modernization

Brazil's House of Cards Collapses (Walter Russell Mead, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12558-brazil-s-house-of-cards-collapses

It's All About the Economy! (Aparna Pande, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12555-it-s-all-about-the-economy

Graphic: How Obamacare Hides $104 Billion in Federal Spending (Jeffrey H. Anderson, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12554-graphic-how-obamacare-hides-104-billion-in-federal-spending

Central Bankers Claim: Things Are Better than You Think (Brendan Brown, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12553-central-bankers-claim-things-are-better-than-you-think

Russian Violations of Borders, Treaties, and Human Rights (David Satter, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12551-russian-violations-of-borders-treaties-and-human-rights

Beijing's Self-Defeating Strategy (Walter Russell Mead, Hudson Institute)

http://www.hudson.org/research/12556-beijing-s-self-defeating-strategy

Why Texas’ Criminal Justice Reforms Don’t Translate To Federal Level (David W. Murray, Brian Blake, Hudson Institute)

Advocates for federal sentencing reform point approvingly to criminal justice approaches undertaken in recent years in Texas. These measures are often touted as “conservative approaches” to sentencing reform, and therefore should appeal to Republican lawmakers.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/07052016-why-texas-criminal-justice-reforms-dont-translate-to-federal-level-analysis/

When Smart People Make Mistakes: Economists Wage War On Drug Facts (Hudson Institute)

On February 9, former Secretary of State George Schultz proposed decriminalizing drugs as a strategy superior to prohibition. Specifically, he argued that young peoples’ fear of arrest for using drugs such as marijuana deters them from seeking treatment. The facts are to the contrary.Arrests for drug use are in fact statistically rare (about one arrest for every 34,000 marijuana joints smoked), while incarceration for drug use is even more rare. As the RAND Corporation has argued, “in no Western country is a user at much risk of being criminally penalized for using marijuana.” The argument holds for use of other illicit drugs, as well.In fact, decriminalization decreases the incentives for people to seek and achieve recovery because the criminal justice system, operating through drug courts, is a leading means of getting drug users into treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Decriminalization, perversely, removes the motive and the very instrumentality of achieving sanctioned, supervised drug treatment.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/25022016-when-smart-people-make-mistakes-economists-wage-war-on-drug-facts-analysis/

Will Israel’s Natural-Gas Fields Ever Get Developed? (Arthur Herman, Hudson Institute, Eurasia Review)

What a difference a year makes.A year ago, the Israeli government was at complete loggerheads with an American company and its Israeli partner over the future of “Leviathan,” Israel’s massive offshore natural-gas reserve. The question was whether either of the two companies, Noble Energy of Houston and the Delek Group of Israel, would be allowed to participate in actually developing the field they had discovered five years earlier. And then, in August, with negotiations stalled, and no other candidates in sight, the Italian energy giant ENI announced the discovery, in Egyptian waters, of an even larger and more easily accessible gas field. Some energy experts were beginning to wonder if Leviathan would ever be developed at all.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/09022016-will-israels-natural-gas-fields-ever-get-developed-analysis/

Islamic State Genocide In Mideast: US Must Take Refugees

http://www.eurasiareview.com/10102015-islamic-state-genocide-in-mideast-us-must-take-refugees-oped/

Putin Aims At Syria And Strikes Europe (Hudson Institute)

http://www.eurasiareview.com/05102015-putin-aims-at-syria-and-strikes-europe-oped/

Fleet Size Does Matter, Secretary Mabus (Hudson Institute)

http://www.eurasiareview.com/19092015-fleet-size-does-matter-secretary-mabus-oped/

How To Destroy Islamic State (And How Not To) (Hudson Institute)

http://www.eurasiareview.com/15092015-how-to-destroy-islamic-state-and-how-not-to-analysis/

New US Drug-Use Report: Big Increases (Hudson Institute)

http://www.eurasiareview.com/11092015-new-us-drug-use-report-big-increases-oped/