By Mark V. Vlasic and Jenae N. Noell
Typically not counted among the battles to be waged in the fight for global security, Mark V. Vlasic and Jenae N. Noell argue that stemming corruption through stolen asset recovery programs has the ability to fortify the rule of law and reduce state impunity in the developing world.
Read MoreBy Samantha R. McRoskey
This article examines the ability of Olympic planners to foster lasting security and prosperity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by considering the complex history and causes of violence in the city and comparing them to plans already in place for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Read MoreBy Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, PhD
Increases in United States-led Western military expenditures ostensibly vindicate the fear of international terrorism as an escalating imminent threat to U.S. and Western national security. However, the most urgent dangers to security come not from terrorism per se, but from the converging impacts of global systemic crises, including climate change, hydrocarbon energy depletion, economic and financial breakdown, and plummeting food production.
Read MoreBy Christian Leuprecht, PhD
Why do minority populations often grow faster than majorities? States in dyadic conflict with a minority whose population growth exceeds that of the majority are prone to protective measures to bolster the majority’s grip on power. Under conditions of ethnic control, however, such measures appear to precipitate higher fertility rates among the minority.
Read MoreBy Mitchell McNaylor
Although private military companies (PMCs) operating in the service of the United States are widely believed to operate outside of any legal framework, such an understanding is based on a perceived, rather than real gap in jurisdiction.
Read MoreBy Tara Murphy
National defense is no longer ensured only through maintaining the sanctity of one’s borders, but is also highly dependent upon the ability to navigate safely through the global commons. These commons—sea, air, space, and cyberspace—enable militaries to protect national territory and interests, as well as facilitate the passage of goods, people, communication, and data upon which every member of the international community depends. Yet, a number of emerging trends are threatening this freedom of action.
Read MoreBy Joseph Paul Vasquez, III, PhD
While our scholarly understanding of security-related issues is evolving, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate that American leaders stand alongside other historical counterparts who benefitted from mechanisms that kept their publics from fully recognizing the human cost of military action.
Read MoreBy Elisabeth Jean Wood, PhD
Sexual violence has marked the landscape of several of the most gruesome conflicts in recent history.
Read MoreWell into the Obama presidency, the broadest foreign policy challenge facing the United States remains unmentioned.
Read MoreBy John Gannon, PhD
In the past quarter century, the United States has experienced a significant expansion of its national threat assessment as a result of two revolutionary changes in the world.
Read MoreAn Interview with Stephen M. Walt
Walt discusses his balance-of-threat theory, the Obama Administration’s policies in the Middle East, and top security threats to the United States.
Read MoreAn Interview with Mary Kaldor on human security.
Read MoreAn Interview with Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico
In March 2010, Yale postgraduate fellow Matthew Blomerth studying in Mexico sat down with former Mexican head-of-state, President Vicente Fox, at his presidential library to discuss challenges that Mexico faces due to its high reliance on oil sale revenues at a time of rapidly diminishing production.
Read MoreBy Christian Davenport and Molly Inman
By the end of 2006, it had become clear to most observers that the U.S. strategy in Iraq was rapidly deteriorating. During that year, Iraqi civilian fatalities began to approach 4,000 per month, and sectarian violence and al-Qaeda activity was spreading and intensifying. What was the source of the physical threat?
Read MoreAn Interview with Paul Collier
YJIA: Your work focuses on the “Bottom Billion,” people in small, impoverished, post-colonial countries that you say are structurally unable to provide certain crucial public goods, most notably security and accountability.
Read MoreAn Interview with George Ayittey
Foreign aid has become an increasingly hot topic, particularly among students and in academia. Aid arguments often fall into one of two camps: that the aid industry is inefficient and ineffective, and should therefore be drastically reformed and even reduced; or that aid can effectively fight poverty, especially if scaled-up.
Read MoreAn Interview with Nancy Birdsall
YJIA: Foreign aid has become an increasingly hot topic, particularly among students and in academia. Aid arguments often fall into one of two camps: that the aid industry is inefficient and ineffective, and should therefore be drastically reformed and even reduced; or that aid can effectively fight poverty, especially if scaled-up.
Read MoreAn Interview with William Easterly on the aid landscape and non-governmental organizations.
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