Western Ideological Landscape: The Case for Democratic Internationalism

By Ron Raskin. 30 years ago, the mainstream Western ideology—the dominant Western consensus—was international liberalism: spreading democracy and human rights abroad. But the “end of history” never really happened. One major blow to this idea—or, more precisely, to its more hawkish versions, such as neoconservatism—came with the Iraq War. Then, in 2008, the financial crisis

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Buying Time on Borrowed Reality: Israel, the West, and the War on Terror

By Ron Raskin. In a few days, Israel will remember the October 7 massacre: 1,200 people killed and 251 taken hostage—Jews, Bedouin, Thai, Nepalese, and others. But October 7 isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the feeling of vulnerability and insecurity — about a nation that went to sleep in a familiar, relatively safe

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Thinking Clearly in the Age of Information Warfare

By Ron Raskin Since the Enlightenment, liberalism and the scientific method have developed side by side, helping humanity achieve unprecedented levels of technology, freedom, and progress. Each, in its own way, has strengthened the other. And today, as the world once again finds itself in a period of profound turbulence, we would do well to

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The Game of the Century: Summing Up the First Middle Eastern Regional War

By Ron Raskin. The MOU signed by Trump was nothing less than a shock across the Israeli political landscape—and not only there. The inevitable question everyone is asking is: why? Why did he sign such a terrible MOU? It is time to look at reality with our eyes wide open, because in our world, disconnection

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Israel – The Nation in the Dragon’s Path

By Ron Raskin. This is the third and final post in a short series that maps the ideological landscape of Islamism and explains how it has influenced Western politics over the past few decades to provide context for anyone trying to understand today’s political landscape in the West—with its growing internal tensions, cultural conflicts, and ideological battles.

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Taming the Dragon: How the West Confronts Islamism

By Ron Raskin. This is the second post in a short series that maps the ideological landscape of Islamism and explains how it has influenced Western politics over the past few decades to provide context for anyone trying to understand today’s political landscape in the West—with its growing internal tensions, cultural conflicts, and ideological battles. And of

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The Sin of Pride and How It Leads to Failing Policies

by Ron Raskin. In my previous post, I talked about different ideologies in the West. Many of them believe the solution to the world’s problems is exporting liberalism everywhere. This includes promoting multiculturalism. All such ideologies are essentially based on the assumption that liberalism is the one and only set of values—supreme above all others—and

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