E-Notes March 21, 2018 Why So Secret? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Unique Fragility of Communications Intelligence The public debate over the contents of the applications considered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in authorizing... Read more »
E-Notes March 21, 2018 The Era of Urban Warfare is Already Here Aleppo. Mosul. Sana’a. Mogadishu. Gaza. These war-ravaged cities are but a few examples of a growing trend in... Read more »
E-Notes March 20, 2018 Xi Jinping’s Second Coronation—and What It (May) Mean for China and the Rest of Us In the chill of early March, nearly 5,000 of China’s most important people gathered in Beijing for what are... Read more »
E-Notes March 19, 2018 The Taiwan Travel Act: Only as Important as Trump Makes It A seemingly innocuous bill—one that allows senior U.S. officials to travel to Taiwan and vice versa—was passed by unanimous... Read more »
E-Notes March 16, 2018 Bosnia on the Russian Chopping Block: The Potential for Violence and Steps to Prevent It Russia is actively supporting indigenous political and paramilitary actors seeking to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Kremlin is cooperating... Read more »
The American Review of Books, Blogs, and Bull February 28, 2018 Abraham Lincoln and American Destiny in a Divided World All countries have reassuring myths, a deep history of assumptions that help provide identity and meaning. A strong American... Read more »
FootNotes February 23, 2018 Advances in Medicine During Wars Besides the well-known technical advances that have occurred during major wars of the past 150 years, each one also... Read more »
E-Notes February 21, 2018 Washington Must Rethink Policy on North Korea Nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them are central to Pyongyang’s deterrence strategy, the principal aim of which... Read more »
The Philadelphia Papers February 20, 2018 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... Read more »
The American Review of Books, Blogs, and Bull February 20, 2018 Eisenhower and the Cold War Successful presidents do not need to come through the political process, but whatever their background, they need to be... Read more »