By Dr. Robert M. Farley
The responses from Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen both boil down to the same point. Many people in the Middle East say that an Iranian nuclear weapon will tip the regional balance of power in alarming ways, and since there is “nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” the balance will be tipped.
Read MoreBy Paolo Patruno
Paolo Patruno’s photographs highlight Lions Sight First Eye Hospital in Blantyre: the project focuses mainly on children with cataract in order to provide appropriate treatment, including surgery, follow- up and provision of prescription glasses.
Read MoreBy Spencer Ackerman
Ackerman suggest two reasons why Robert Farley is wrong in is assessment of the non-impact of an Iranian nuke.
Read MoreBy Michael Cohen
Another rebuttal to Robert Farley's article "Not the End of the World As We Know It: Nuclear-Armed Iran and the Mid-East Balance of Power"
Read MoreBy Christine Seisun
The ramp up of drone operations is counteracting the supposed drawn down of boots on the ground in US wars.
Read MoreBy Dr. Robert M. Farley
Robert Farley argues that a nuclear-armed Iran is perhaps not as consequential as people tend to believe.
Read MoreBy Patrick Disney
Israel has long maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity about its nuclear arsenal, neither confirming nor denying its existence.
Read MoreAn Interview with Founder & CEO of Women for Women International, Zainab Salbi
Women for Women International has helped hundreds of thousands of women and distributed nearly $100 million in aid, including direct aid and micro-credit loans.
Read MoreAn Interview with Aziz Royesh and Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Yale World Fellows
Royesh and Nemat discuss the advancement of the rights of women in Afghanistan.
Read MoreAn Interview with María Corina Machado on democracy in Venezuela.
Read MoreBy General Stanley McChrystal
An interview with General McChrystal about the recent natural resource discovery in Afghanistan
Read MoreAn Interview with General Stanley McChrystal
General McCrystal discusses the implications of the discovery of copper, gold, cobalt and lithium in Afghanistan.
Read MoreBy Andrew C. Miller
Many Americans assert that the new millennium marked the dawn of another “American Century.” The Chinese are equally convinced that the twenty-first century belongs to them. Some foreign policy scholars even foresee a “Canadian Century.”
Read MoreBy Mauricio Claver-Carone
Since Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and transferred power to his brother Raul, members of Congress have been weighing possible options in U.S. policy toward Cuba, partially by raising the fundamental question: “is there a viable pro-democracy movement in Cuba?”
Read MoreBy Suchitra Vijayan
A photo essay documenting the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake in the town of Léogâne.
Read MoreAn Interview with Ambassador John D. Negroponte
Negroponte discusses the evolvement of the U.S.’s approaches to security.
Read MoreBy Matthew Adam Kocher, PhD
State capacity has become a central concept in the study of security. The author argues that common uses of the concept to explain violent conflict are tautologies. He outlines several ways to disaggregate the state analytically which have the potential to lead to more rigorous empirical research on violence.
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