MAYHEM IN MICHOACÁN MEXICO
INTRODUCTION President Barack Obama will rub elbows with his counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto when visiting Mexico to attend the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
MAYHEM IN MICHOACÁN MEXICO
A nation must think before it acts.
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An Opening for Peace: Israelis, Palestinians and the Two-State Solution
Particularly in the past few years, a wide array of pundits, experts and observers of the Arab-Israeli conflict have...
The Geopolitics of Sochi
The founder of the International Olympic Committee, Pierre de Coubertin, had a vision that athletic competitions would attenuate geopolitical...
Alternatives to U.S. Hard Power: The Saudi Response to U.S. Tactics in the Middle East
The conventional wisdom today is that Saudi Arabia will ultimately accept recent U.S. policy decisions that currently it rejects...
Principle and Prudence in American Foreign Policy
U.S. foreign policy is in shambles, characterized by drift and incoherence. It is at best a-strategic at worst anti-strategic,...
Incentives Matter: Military Procurement Problems in India, Malaysia, and the United States
Controversies rage over military procurement around the world. Few are ever fully satisfied. Taxpayers and politicians who fund it...
China’s Xi Jinping: Hawk or Reformer?
As the heir-apparent to succeed Hu Jintao as leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and state, there was...
Tacitus’ Agricola and Lessons for Today
The exercise of power, even the most well-meaning and just, always generates some level of dissatisfaction and opposition. It...
Government Without the Ultra-Orthodox? Demography and the Future of Israeli Politics
It would be hard to conjure up a more grave and immediate set of peacetime challenges than those that...
More is Not Enough: Arms Buildups, Innovation, and Stability in the Asia-Pacific
The arms buildup across the Asia-Pacific is remarkable. Understandably, some fear that the accumulation of military hardware reflects possible...