Publications

The American Interest First, let’s acknowledge that it is not only the Kremlin and its affiliated oligarchs that may be using the cloak of anonymity created by the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to funnel...

After months of delay, the U.S. Department of Defense released the Missile Defense Review (MDR) in January 2019. The document will guide American missile defense initiatives and programs during the coming decade. As the MDR makes clear, missile defense...

At the start of 2019, are we seeing the first green shoots of what might emerge as the mid-21st century iteration of a U.S. bipartisan foreign policy consensus? From Nikki Haley’s conceptualization and defense of her interpretation of Donald...

Last December, Russia flew two of its strategic bombers to  Venezuela as a display of military capacity. These training missions have occurred every five years since 2008 as part of a military cooperation agreement between Caracas and Moscow. The flight of...

The American Interest As 2019 begins, government campaigns around the world to stifle free expression by independent and critical voices are proceeding apace. This is happening not only in China and Russia, whose governments have lately taken to extending their internal repression...

Once again, in 280 characters or less, Donald Trump upended U.S. policy that many thought was settled. Trump’s series of tweets last month announcing the defeat of ISIS and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria stunned his own...

On January 3, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Iran was preparing to launch multiple Space Launch Vehicles (SLV), which he claimed had “virtually (the) same technology as ICBMs,” before issuing a threat, “We won’t stand by while...

The Wall Street Journal In March 1973, members of the terrorist group Black September held a Belgian and two American diplomats hostage in Khartoum, Sudan, and demanded the release of various prisoners, including Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted in...

We begin the winter issue of Orbis with an intriguing essay by Arthur Waldron, who argues that because of its history and culture, China is not able to fully integrate into the current “world order,” based on a Westphalian...

Antoly Torkunov, editor, et al., Russia and the United States in the Evolving World Order(Moscow State Institute of International Relation, 2018). The collapse in relations between the Russian Federation and the West over the past five years have produced much more...