Publications

Mr/s Chairman, Members of the Commission, thank you for the invitation to speak today on this timely subject. My testimony will address how Chinese foreign-directed information operations figure into the broader strategy of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)...

Addressing the American people as president for the first time on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama declared that “America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.” Two crises, already in motion, challenge that role....

Vladislav Surkov. Texts 97-07 (Moscow: Evropa, 2008). 190 pp. Russian Political Culture. A View from Utopia. Ed. Konstantin Remchukov (Moscow: Nezavisimaia Gazeta Press, 2007). 96 pp. Read the full article here....

Journey into Islam:  The Crisis of Globalization.  By Akbar Ahmed. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007.  323 pp.) The Saint of Kathmandu; and Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands.  By Sarah LeVine.  (Boston:  Beacon Press, 2008.  242...

Abstract The conventional wisdom recommends the establishment of a Palestinian state to bring about an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (the two-state paradigm). This article first reviews the confluence of domestic and international factors that led to the resurgence...

Abstract To form a more prudent foreign policy toward the Muslim Brotherhood, we must understand it not only as a domestic actor, but also as a major regional player. In fact, the Brotherhood has a complex relationship with Iran...

Abstract The outcome of ongoing debates over the future of American military strategy will play a critical role in shaping the foreign and military policies of the United States over the next decade. Traditionalists worry about the shift towards...

Until recently, the British were considered to have an unusually high aptitude for counterinsurgency. In contrast with other major armies of the world, the British Army has a record of relative success in this form of warfare. In staff...

Abstract This article addresses property rights in China under four headings. I begin by placing the Chinese case within the larger context of property rights literature. The second section reviews the existing scholarship on property rights in China and...

Abstract China’s relations with the West deteriorated dramatically following the Tibet and Olympic torch relay controversies in the spring of 2008. Because of its focus on the balance of material power, realist International Relations theory can do little to...