By Amitai Etzioni
The start of a second Obama administration provides an opportunity for civilian authorities to live up to their obligations in this matter and to conduct a proper review of the United States’ China strategy and the military’s role in it.
Read MoreBy Yangmo Ku
To what extent could North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-un follow the path of economic reform that Deng Xiaoping adopted in China starting in the late 1970s? This article analyzes the role of individual leadership, domestic context, and systemic considerations to determine whether or not China’s past is applicable to North Korea’s present. This comparative study shows that the prospect for economic reform in North Korea is not very promising.
Read MoreBy Salar Ghahramani
International financial relations have largely been defined by cross-border trade, foreign direct investments, and global banking relations. This paper demonstrates that another activity, sovereign investments by special vehicles known as sovereign wealth funds, is rapidly redefining the traditional paradigms, providing both opportunities for further integration of the financial markets as well as posing particular challenges for policy makers.
Read MoreAn interview with Paul Pillar on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the situations in Syria and Iran, the intelligence community, and what it takes to make effective policy and effective policy recommendations.
Read MoreAn Interview with Andrew Bacevich
Bacevich speaks of his careers in the military and academia, the US military, and foreign policy.
Read MoreAn Interview with Philip Mudd, CIA/FBI Terrorism Expert
Mudd discusses his career in government, his book Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda, and terrorism.
Read MoreAn Interview with Ambassador Ryan Crocker
Crocker speaks of diplomacy and the current era of US policy.
Read MoreBy Chi Adanna Mgbako
On April 22, 2013, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., a case whose outcome will affect international efforts to safeguard the health of sex workers, a marginalized population in the global HIV/AIDS response.
Read MoreBy Christopher Harnisch
The confirmation process for John Brennan—formerly President Barack Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor—to lead the CIA, ignited a divisive debate regarding the legality of drone strikes.
Read MoreBy Tai-Heng Cheng and Lucas Bento
The Syrian civil war has no clear end in sight. With the civilian death toll mounting and the refugee crisis deteriorating, the international community is appropriately focused on the human cost of Syria’s internal conflict.
Read MoreBy Dawood Ahmed
The United States has been carrying out drone strikes within Yemen and Pakistan since 2002 and 2004 respectively. Opponents have attempted to halt the use of drones by invoking legal arguments against the United States government. In doing so, they have overlooked the possibility that it may have taken ‘two to drone.’
Read MoreAn Interview with Rick Barton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations about his job, preventing conflict and encouraging stability, and how the U.S. government triages crises and ongoing stabilization efforts.
Read MoreBy Natalie E. Sammarco
China’s Great Firewall (GFW) is a vast web of government-run online servers working 24/7 to block content to the country’s estimated 500 million internet users, commonly referred to as “netizens.”
Read MoreBy Seth A. Johnston
NATO’s condemnations of the recent North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile tests attracted little critical attention.
Read MoreBy Caroline Conzelman
I explain here how I teach an international affairs course from an anthropological perspective, and I offer my views on why I believe professionals in business, development, government, the military, and elsewhere stand to gain from adopting anthropological methods and values.
Read MoreBy Hugo de Zela Martinez
The history of the Organization of American States (OAS) mirrors that of its member states and their sixty-four-year-old struggle to balance the principle of non-intervention with exceptions to it in the name of democracy and human rights.
Read MoreBy Christopher McIntosh
Despite mostly successful efforts to draw down forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama’s policies in the war on terror have placed the United States on a path for indefinite conflict.
Read MoreBy Hilary Dauer
The pesantren is an essential part of many Indonesian communities. It disseminates ideology, both religious and political, through the key community services it provides such as education for the community’s youth and the administration of important religious rites. Through the provision of these services, pesantrens provide the ideological underpinning for societal stability.
Read MoreBy Eric Reeves
In December, 2012, commentary on the purported “coup attempt” in Khartoum provided little in the way of consensus about how serious the “coup” was, precisely who was truly involved, or how far planning had moved to an actual attempt.
Read MoreBy David Caragliano
Human psychology and market incentives make real name registration an unpalatable proposition both to netizens and to online service providers charged with implementing the policy. In time, this article argues, internet policy makers will conclude that real name registration is more trouble than it is worth.
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