By Dr. Robert M. Farley
Robert Farley argues that a nuclear-armed Iran is perhaps not as consequential as people tend to believe.
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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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An Interview with Founder & CEO of Women for Women International, Zainab Salbi
Women for Women International has helped hundreds of thousands of women and distributed nearly $100 million in aid, including direct aid and micro-credit loans.
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An Interview with Aziz Royesh and Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Yale World Fellows
Royesh and Nemat discuss the advancement of the rights of women in Afghanistan.
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An Interview with María Corina Machado on democracy in Venezuela.
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By General Stanley McChrystal
An interview with General McChrystal about the recent natural resource discovery in Afghanistan
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An Interview with General Stanley McChrystal
General McCrystal discusses the implications of the discovery of copper, gold, cobalt and lithium in Afghanistan.
Read MoreBy 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?”
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By Suchitra Vijayan
A photo essay documenting the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake in the town of Léogâne.
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An Interview with Ambassador John D. Negroponte
Negroponte discusses the evolvement of the U.S.’s approaches to security.
Read MoreBy Matthew Adam Kocher, PhD
State capacity has become a central concept in the study of security. The author argues that common uses of the concept to explain violent conflict are tautologies. He outlines several ways to disaggregate the state analytically which have the potential to lead to more rigorous empirical research on violence.
Read MoreBy Mark V. Vlasic and Jenae N. Noell
Typically not counted among the battles to be waged in the fight for global security, Mark V. Vlasic and Jenae N. Noell argue that stemming corruption through stolen asset recovery programs has the ability to fortify the rule of law and reduce state impunity in the developing world.
Read MoreBy Samantha R. McRoskey
This article examines the ability of Olympic planners to foster lasting security and prosperity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by considering the complex history and causes of violence in the city and comparing them to plans already in place for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Read MoreBy Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, PhD
Increases in United States-led Western military expenditures ostensibly vindicate the fear of international terrorism as an escalating imminent threat to U.S. and Western national security. However, the most urgent dangers to security come not from terrorism per se, but from the converging impacts of global systemic crises, including climate change, hydrocarbon energy depletion, economic and financial breakdown, and plummeting food production.
Read MoreBy Christian Leuprecht, PhD
Why do minority populations often grow faster than majorities? States in dyadic conflict with a minority whose population growth exceeds that of the majority are prone to protective measures to bolster the majority’s grip on power. Under conditions of ethnic control, however, such measures appear to precipitate higher fertility rates among the minority.
Read MoreBy Mitchell McNaylor
Although private military companies (PMCs) operating in the service of the United States are widely believed to operate outside of any legal framework, such an understanding is based on a perceived, rather than real gap in jurisdiction.
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