Allison Stanger and Mark E. Williams weigh the pros and cons of relying on private military corporations to implement U.S. foreign policy, warning that their efficacy rests on a tenuous U.S. monopoly in the market for force.
Despite hopes that China's Fourth Generation of leadership would extend liberalization to the political sphere, Merle Goldman argues that they have instead engaged in a systematic crackdown on dissent.
Jason Strakes argues that in the wake of the Iraq War, Middle Eastern countries have not pursued foreign policies consonant with traditional theories of alliance formation.
In an interview with YJIA, Williamson Murray discusses the Iraqi Perspectives Project, a U.S. military effort to shed light on the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's regime using documents captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Nilanjan Raghunath asserts that nationalism and factionalism, aggravated by religious fundamentalism, are the core causes of conflict over the status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Stefanie Pleschinger argues that augmenting transatlantic intelligence cooperation requires the creation of a European intelligence service above and beyond existing institutions.
