History remains the best guide to predicting the future — but such predictions are still more likely than not to be wrong. Those who...
In 2022, we considered questions ranging from identifying the greatest weakness of the U.S. in the national security arena to considering how to de-center...
Dorani describes Kabul, and Afghanistan more broadly, as a melting pot of different ethnicities and religious factions that exist in the region. The Soviet...
Truhe came to the topic with a unique background. As part of his later career, he served as the Assistant Attorney General of South...
On the 24th of February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Within weeks, U.S. generals began pointing to examples of lessons learned...
This short, yet comprehensive, and extensively documented examination of the Digital Silk Road and the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to develop world-dominating technology (through...
Sanctions, as described in Agathe Demarais’ timely new book Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests, have become the policy de jure...
Notes: Stephen M. Walt, The Origins of Alliances (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990). Christopher Hemmer and Peter J. Katzenstein, “Why Is There...
The narrative that Negroponte depicts of Baker’s time as secretary of state resembles not so much a master negotiator, but rather a master crisis...
While many aspects of Ronald Reagan’s legacy continue to be hotly debated in the more than thirty years since he left the White House...
