By Patrick Disney
Israel has long maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity about its nuclear arsenal, neither confirming nor denying its existence.
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By Andrew C. Miller
Many Americans assert that the new millennium marked the dawn of another “American Century.” The Chinese are equally convinced that the twenty-first century belongs to them. Some foreign policy scholars even foresee a “Canadian Century.”
Read MoreBy Mauricio Claver-Carone
Since Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and transferred power to his brother Raul, members of Congress have been weighing possible options in U.S. policy toward Cuba, partially by raising the fundamental question: “is there a viable pro-democracy movement in Cuba?”
Read MoreBy Joseph Paul Vasquez, III, PhD
While our scholarly understanding of security-related issues is evolving, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate that American leaders stand alongside other historical counterparts who benefitted from mechanisms that kept their publics from fully recognizing the human cost of military action.
Read MoreBy Elisabeth Jean Wood, PhD
Sexual violence has marked the landscape of several of the most gruesome conflicts in recent history.
Read MoreBy Nuno P. Monteiro, PhD
Well into the Obama presidency, the broadest foreign policy challenge facing the United States remains unmentioned.
Read MoreBy John Gannon, PhD
In the past quarter century, the United States has experienced a significant expansion of its national threat assessment as a result of two revolutionary changes in the world.
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