Harvey Sicherman: A Celebration
Abstract The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on the rich intellectual fare enjoyed over weekly lunches with Harvey Sicherman. McDougall...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Harvey Sicherman: A Celebration
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Editor’s Corner Summer 2011
This issue of Orbis is dedicated to the life and work of Harvey Sicherman, the late esteemed president of FPRI Harvey was a...
Toward an Old New Paradigm in American International Relations
Daniel H. Deudney, Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton: University Press, 2007)....
Security governance in the maritime commons: The case for a transatlantic partnership
Abstract Power distribution in the maritime commons is changing. The inevitable relative decline of U.S. sea power provides an...
Chinese Strategic Thinking on Multilateral Regional Security in Northeast Asia
Abstract This article argues that multilateral mechanisms for addressing security issues in East Asia are weak and that a...
The End of History: ‘Neojuche Revivalism’ and Korean Unification
Abstract This article argues that prospects for change in North Korea and, thus, reduction in threats to regional security,...
Taiwan and East Asian Security
Abstract This article offers an assessment of cross-Strait relations almost 30 months into the Ma Ying-jeou administration, and two...
Foreign Influences and Shifting Horizons: The Ongoing Evolution of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Abstract This article details how prior to the establishment of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AGIM), Meghrebis—that is,...
On the Trail of the ‘Lions of Islam’: Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1980-2010
Abstract This article provides a review of the history of jihadi foreign fighters in Afghanistan over the last 30...
Al Shabaab’s Foreign Threat to Somalia
Abstract This article focuses on the threat to Somalia by al Shabaab (The Youth), an extremist organization that controls...