The Real Terrorist Threats to the Rio Olympics
Fears of terrorism are standard before any Olympics, but the peculiarities surrounding 2016’s Summer Olympics in Rio give added...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Real Terrorist Threats to the Rio Olympics
A nation must think before it acts.
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Republican Party Foreign Policy: 2016 and Beyond
Republican voters today are divided between three broad tendencies: internationalist, nationalist, and non-interventionist. Donald Trump won the GOP...
Everything Old is New Again: Russia Returns to Nicaragua
Two Western media outlets reported on 23 June that Russia was engaged in building a signals intelligence (SIGINT) base...
Force Planning Considerations for the Force of the Future
Congress and the Pentagon are pursuing a number of initiatives that should significantly reshape tomorrow’s force. Defense Secretary...
A Cherry Tree Doesn’t Resemble a Cherry Stone: Can Gábor Vona Remodel Hungary’s Jobbik?
The Hungarian political party commonly known as Jobbik—its full name is Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom, or "Jobbik, the Movement for...
The Next Arab-Israeli Peace Process
The world of statecraft is so fraught with risk that it is tempting, just to reduce the range of...
The South China Sea Arbitration Decision: China Fought the Law, and the Law Won….Or Did It?
When the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague issued its unanimous decision on July 12 in the case...
Georgia’s NATO Aspirations: Rhetoric and Reality
At the recent Georgian Defense and Security Conference, Western policymakers expressed strong support for Georgia’s accession to NATO, and...
If the Atlantic Ocean is the New Black Sea, What’s the Black Sea? Aegis Ashore and the Black Sea Region’s Changing Security Dynamic
Is the Black Sea a distinctive strategic space? That provocative question is begged by Russia's maritime doctrine, the newest...