Publications

The Russian Federation’s willingness to engage in offensive cyber operations has caused enormous harm, including massive financial losses, interruptions to the operation of critical infrastructure, and disruptions of crucial software supply chains. The variety and frequency of these operations,...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. IN REVIEW, Bing West, The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War (New York and Nashville, TN: Bombardier, 2020). On April 14, 2021, President Joseph Biden announced that by September 11, 2021—20...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. IN REVIEW, Derek Chollet, The Middle Way: How Three Presidents Shaped America’s Role in the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) 238 pp. Derek Chollet is an extremely accomplished policy practitioner who...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. IN REVIEW, Kevin D. McCranie, Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2021). A classic book is one that is read and discussed for generations after...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. Abstract The events of January 6, 2021, when violent rioters attacked the Capitol building in Washington in order to disrupt validation of the 2020 presidential election, forced an unprecedented reckoning with...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. Abstract Wealth and power have steered global prestige from East to West and back again. History’s serial relocations of economic growth and corollary power changed the character of the South China...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. Abstract What explains the Russian Federation’s Arctic military buildup? Scholarly assessments have pondered this question many times, providing descriptive analyses of its buildup or finding Russia’s motivation in high-level policy. This...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. Abstract Claiming a more realistic and interest-driven approach to foreign policy, European Union (EU) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has presented her team as a “geopolitical” commission. While the EU exerts...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. Abstract Term limit norms in Africa have been deteriorating rapidly since 2015, reversing a positive trend over the previous two decades. This trend has important implications since longer presidential tenures are...

Access the Summer 2021 issue of Orbis here. Abstract This article examines how events unfolded in the aftermath of the deaths of American servicemembers in Niger in 2017. It shows that there was remarkably little casualty aversion on the...