Publications

The National Interest Donald Trump’s decision to “decertify” Iran—which really means that the administration no longer is prepared to certify that Tehran is complying with the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), colloquially known as...

Having not yet cooled off from the 2016 presidential election, the Republic of Moldova now faces preparations for its upcoming parliamentary elections in 2018. Moldova’s main political entities, in both rhetoric and behavior, have been overwhelmingly absorbed by narrow,...

The Washington Post For the past several years, American and South Vietnamese veterans awaited Ken Burns’s “The Vietnam War” series with gnawing fear. Would Mr. Burns use his talent and prestige to rehash the antiwar narrative, which casts veterans...

Russia’s relations with North Korea are often ignored in the West. The conventional view is that Russia’s role with respect to the North is purely political and diplomatic, predicated on Russia’s permanent membership in the UN Security Council. Often...

Since the Cold War, few crises have put so many Americans on edge as the escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump continue to send mixed signals of...

United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Watch the full testimony here....

Paul Miller has written a remarkable book on American grand strategy. In it, he defends the very concept of “grand strategy;” argues that contrary to the opinion of some commentators, the United States has pursued a largely consistent grand...

This book by J.P. Clark, an active duty army officer who has previously served on the history faculty at West Point, examines how the U.S. Army prepared for war from 1815 to 1917. Clark focuses primarily on the intersection...

Last year, I lectured to a visiting class of new generals and admirals from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the National Defense University in Washington. My briefing presented my research on why major conflict in the next ten...

Abstract This article explores three themes related to classical geopolitics: first, it presents reasons why scholars and commentators abandoned geopolitical analysis after World War II, and then reengaged with geopolitical factors after the Soviet Union’s collapse; second, it suggests...