Israel’s Foreign Policy under Benjamin Netanyahu
The ways in which Prime Ministers of Israel have shaped Israel's foreign policy have often reflected a fairly balanced...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Israel’s Foreign Policy under Benjamin Netanyahu
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for The Philadelphia Papers
Competitive Shaping in World Politics: A Bibliographic Essay and Course Outline
This Philadelphia Paper provides a theoretical and applied introduction to Competitive Shaping, an umbrella term for a variety of...
A Guide for the Perplexed: The Israeli National Security Constellation and its Effect on Policymaking
Israel commands inordinate attention—relative to its size—in international media and fora and in the study of international and Middle...
Assessing Baltic Sea Regional Maritime Security
Russia’s increasingly assertive behavior in Europe has raised concerns about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) readiness for its...
Islamists and Autocrats: What the Next Administration Needs to Know about Egypt
Usually we think of Egypt's political future as a contest between secular autocrats, on the one hand, and Islamists,...
Foresight into 21st Century Conflict: End of the Greatest Illusion?
The number of conflicts is again on the rise as both states and violent actors contend for influence and...
Great War at Sea: Remembering the Battle of Jutland
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the largest sea fight of the First World War, a clash between...
Parliament without Politics: The Effort to Consolidate Authoritarian Rule
Introduction General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Egypt’s ruler since July 2013, brooks no dissent. Having “saved” Egypt from the Muslim Brothers,...
Where the Lions Are — Gazprom’s “Energetic Pliers” and Aspirations of a Eurasian Archipelago: The Geopolitics of Russia’s Networked Energy Infrastructure
“I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others...
The Evolution of the Executive and Executive Power in the American Republic
THE MODERN REPUBLIC AND THE BIRTH OF EXECUTIVE POWER As Americans, we take for granted the idea of a...