The Almost-Normal Country: Japan and the Use of Force
The enactment of Japan’s new national security bills was a long time in the making. The bills, already passed...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Almost-Normal Country: Japan and the Use of Force
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Geopoliticus
The Islamic State Online: Countering the Symptom Rather Than The Disease May Only Make Them Stronger
The 2016 Presidential campaigns have swung into full gear and tough talk about countering the Islamic State grows by...
Can the Islamic State hijack September 11 from Zawahiri’s al Qaeda?
September 9, 2015 The increasingly reclusive Aymen al-Zawahiri sprung up his ugly head this week with a new lecture...
A World Order with Chinese Characteristics?
August 19, 2015 The Hundred Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower BY...
The Bigger Picture: China’s Energy Exploration in the East China Sea and Japan’s Security Debate
Last week Japan released its annual defense review. For the first time, it revealed photographs of Chinese offshore drilling...
Why Borders Matter
Events in the Middle East seem to make some commentators and officials forget the fact that borders matter—everywhere, including...
The West Should Press for Democracy in Western Ukraine, Leave the East to Putin for Now
Ukraine’s democratic transition has not gone as was hoped in 1991. The country has consistently waffled between a 4...
The Seven Deadly Sins of the Human Terrain System: An Insider’s Perspective
The Human Terrain System (HTS) – a U.S. Army program aimed at helping U.S. and allied military forces understand...
Greek Debt, Austerity, and the Myth of the Hypocritical Hun
Sunday’s referendum in Greece, in which more than 60% of voters rejected the latest offer from the so-called “troika”...
The Battle for History: Why Europe Should Resist the Temptation to Rewrite its Own Communist Past
Earlier this month the Czech and Slovak governments criticised the airing of a Russian documentary on the Soviet...