China and the World: The View from Salzburg, Then and Now
When the National People’s Congress met this month and named Xi Jinping China’s President (and thereby completed conferral of...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
China and the World: The View from Salzburg, Then and Now
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for E-Notes
Understanding North Korea
When the third son of dying leader Kim Jong-il was designated as the successor of his ailing father in...
The Gatekeepers: Geopolitics and the Limits of Power
The Israeli movie The Gatekeepers, nominated for an Oscar award earlier this year, serves as extraordinary background for a...
The Road to Africa Runs through Morocco
The current visit by Moroccan king Mohammed VI to three countries in sub-Saharan Africa—Senegal, Gabon, and Ivory Coast—has opened...
Syria: Time for Inaction?
Is the new, very marginally more muscular, U.S. disposition toward the Syrian opposition a good idea? To answer this...
Syrian Druze: Toward Defiant Neutrality
Syria’s Druze community once played a major role in shaping the country’s modern history, despite comprising a mere three...
The Russian Stake In Afghanistan
As the U.S. prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan, perhaps no nation has more to fear from the consequences than...
John Quincy Adams and American Foreign Policy in a Revolutionary Era
John Quincy Adams famously proclaimed “America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy” in a speech that...
When Foreign Policy Goals Exceed Military Capacity, Call The Pentagon
With dozens of treaty allies and a strategic priority of promoting the sovereignty of weak states, the U.S. military...
The Geopolitical Transformation of Southeast Asia
Viewed from Washington, rapid systemic change has become a constant feature of global geopolitics. Nowhere is this truer than...