America’s Waning Military Edge
By Andrew Burt
Just days before the United States launched its first missiles into Libya, the Israeli navy confiscated a cache of Iranian-made missiles bound for the Gaza Strip. The Iranian precision-guided missiles, known as Nasr missiles or C-704s, are deadly to targets both on land and at sea. Revelations of such weapons’ dispersion are as striking as they are significant: Just as the technological edge that has come to define America’s military power was on full display in Libya, simultaneous events show that the US technological edge is eroding.
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The United States Must Engage Anew for Peace in Kosovo
By Drew Peterson
Though the US foreign policy agenda is robust, the Obama administration should intensify its commitment to peace in Kosovo by taking a fresh look at the protracted differences in the dispute.
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Assad’s Future and Syria’s Opposition Groups
By Majid Rafizadeh
There are more reasons to believe that Assad’s regime will survive the current wave of sanctions and uprisings than to expect that it will be ousted. Among these are the lack of cohesion and the disorganization which characterize opposition groups marching in the streets.
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Waiting to Be Somebody in Somaliland
By Jason Warner
With the July 2011 secession of South Sudan, and contemporary discussions of Palestinian statehood, observers rightly ask: is Somaliland next? Although it deserves independence as much as any of today’s attempted breakaway regions, a confluence of ill-conceived orientations from the United Nations (UN), the United States, and especially the African Union (AU) means that Somaliland’s wait to become an international “somebody” will not come to an end in the near future.
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Getting Copyright Right in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Taylor Washburn
Robust copyright protection can be achieved without reifying unstable doctrines in international trade deals, and without requiring our trade partners to accept unjustifiable copyright term extensions. A TPP that incorporates these principles should be favored over one that does not.
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Growing Out of Debt: A Conversation About the Global Economy
An Interview with Domingo Cavallo and Rakesh Mohan
Cavallo and Mohan discuss the financial crisis in the US and Europe.
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Political Will and Multilateral Cooperation in International Justice
An Interview with Richard Goldstone
Goldstone discusses the main challenges facing the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Human Rights Tribunal.
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Policymaking During Risk and Uncertainty: The Role of Special Operations
An interview with Michele Malvesti on policy concerns of counterterrorism (CT) actions and the role of Special Operations Forces (SOF) in ensuring national security.
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New Pentagon Budget Offers Smaller Wars, But More of Them
By Aroop Mukharji
Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced plans to slash the defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, reducing the size of the army 14% by 2022.
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The One Percent Worth Defending
By Jessie Daniels
There’s another one percent coming under attack these days – the US foreign aid budget.
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Robert Farley Responds to Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen
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.
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Childhood Blindness Prevention: Seva Canada Programs in Malawi
By 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.
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Spencer Ackerman Responds to Robert Farley on the Significance of an Iranian Nuke
By Spencer Ackerman
Ackerman suggest two reasons why Robert Farley is wrong in is assessment of the non-impact of an Iranian nuke.
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Michael Cohen Responds to Robert Farley on a Nuclear-Armed Iran
By 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"
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Is the US War on Terror Finally Winding Down? Think Again.
By Christine Seisun
The ramp up of drone operations is counteracting the supposed drawn down of boots on the ground in US wars.
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Not the End of the World As We Know It: Nuclear-Armed Iran and the Mid-East Balance of Power
By Dr. Robert M. Farley
Robert Farley argues that a nuclear-armed Iran is perhaps not as consequential as people tend to believe.
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Israel Fears Iranian Nuclear Copycat
By Patrick Disney
Israel has long maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity about its nuclear arsenal, neither confirming nor denying its existence.
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Working for Women Worldwide
An 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.
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Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya: A Photo Essay
By Alex Palmer
A photo essay from Alex Palmer’s research at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya
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