US Foreign Policy 
Looking to the Future: What Nuclear Arms Control Should Look Like in a Second Obama Administration
By Warren Ryan* “Under New START, America gives and Russia gets . . .. Every single provision favors Russia or is neutral; not one favors the United States . . .. The stronger we are relative to nations like Russia, the safer the world is.” 1 —Mitt Romney, former U.S. presidential candidate It is time to [...]
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U.S. Foreign Aid and the African AIDS Epidemic
By Nicoli Nattrass* Abstract—U.S. foreign aid has been crucial to the international AIDS response, especially to the rollout of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in Africa. The unprecedented scale of funding that has been raised to combat this disease evolved out of fears that AIDS was a both a humanitarian disaster and a threat to international security and [...]
Cyberwar in the Underworld: Anonymous versus Los Zetas in Mexico
By Paul Rexton Kan* Abstract—Little attention has been paid to non-state actors conducting cyberwars against each other and the disruptive effects these wars can have on nation-states. This article explores the online clash between the hacker group, Anonymous, and the Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas. This type of cyberwar was unique: it was an incident [...]
The EU and NATO after Libya and Afghanistan: The Future of Euro-U.S. Security Cooperation
By Jolyon Howorth* Abstract—The total absence of the European Union, as a bloc, during the Libyan crisis of spring 2011 has led analysts to pose tough questions about the future of Europe as a collective security actor. The progress made toward the EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) since 2003 was to some extent [...]
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