By Christopher Harnisch
The confirmation process for John Brennan—formerly President Barack Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor—to lead the CIA, ignited a divisive debate regarding the legality of drone strikes.
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By Tai-Heng Cheng and Lucas Bento
The Syrian civil war has no clear end in sight. With the civilian death toll mounting and the refugee crisis deteriorating, the international community is appropriately focused on the human cost of Syria’s internal conflict.
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By Dawood Ahmed
The United States has been carrying out drone strikes within Yemen and Pakistan since 2002 and 2004 respectively. Opponents have attempted to halt the use of drones by invoking legal arguments against the United States government. In doing so, they have overlooked the possibility that it may have taken ‘two to drone.’
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An Interview with Rick Barton, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations about his job, preventing conflict and encouraging stability, and how the U.S. government triages crises and ongoing stabilization efforts.
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By Natalie E. Sammarco
China’s Great Firewall (GFW) is a vast web of government-run online servers working 24/7 to block content to the country’s estimated 500 million internet users, commonly referred to as “netizens.”
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By Seth A. Johnston
NATO’s condemnations of the recent North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile tests attracted little critical attention.
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By Caroline Conzelman
I explain here how I teach an international affairs course from an anthropological perspective, and I offer my views on why I believe professionals in business, development, government, the military, and elsewhere stand to gain from adopting anthropological methods and values.
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By Hugo de Zela Martinez
The history of the Organization of American States (OAS) mirrors that of its member states and their sixty-four-year-old struggle to balance the principle of non-intervention with exceptions to it in the name of democracy and human rights.
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By Christopher McIntosh
Despite mostly successful efforts to draw down forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama’s policies in the war on terror have placed the United States on a path for indefinite conflict.
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By Hilary Dauer
The pesantren is an essential part of many Indonesian communities. It disseminates ideology, both religious and political, through the key community services it provides such as education for the community’s youth and the administration of important religious rites. Through the provision of these services, pesantrens provide the ideological underpinning for societal stability.
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By Eric Reeves
In December, 2012, commentary on the purported “coup attempt” in Khartoum provided little in the way of consensus about how serious the “coup” was, precisely who was truly involved, or how far planning had moved to an actual attempt.
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By David Caragliano
Human psychology and market incentives make real name registration an unpalatable proposition both to netizens and to online service providers charged with implementing the policy. In time, this article argues, internet policy makers will conclude that real name registration is more trouble than it is worth.
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By Cassandra R. Veney and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Since the 1990s, Kenya, like most African countries, has undergone a protracted transition to democracy. Studies on the subject tend to focus on specific events, actors, challenges, and roadblocks and offer prognoses that are often soon overtaken by new developments. In many studies ethnicity looms large as an explanation.
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By W. Alejandro Sánchez Nieto
In 1993, political scientist Samuel Huntington published a provocative article entitled “The Clash of Civilizations?” in Foreign Affairs.
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By Rachel Bergenfield
“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” proclaimed former Secretary of State Clinton in 2011.
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By Jayita Sarkar
Despite coming into force in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) continues to lack universal adherence. At present, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and newly-independent South Sudan are non-signatories.
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By Aiden Warren
In its drive to produce fissile material for weapons, augment its weapons production facilities, deploy additional delivery vehicles, construct additional nuclear reactors, and expand its reprocessing capabilities, Pakistan has clearly placed the expansion and improvement of its nuclear weapons arsenal at the heart of its overall security strategy.
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By Tuesday Reitano
A confluence of events – the successful end of the political transition, the formation of a promising new government headed by a new guard of civil society leaders, and the rollback and significant weakening of the militant terrorist group al Shabaab – offers the best hope for a peace that Somalia has had in decades.
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An Interview with John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian on the Cold War and policy of containment.
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By Thomas Graham
The future of the Russian-led effort to consolidate the BRICS (the BRICs plus South Africa) as an influential multilateral organization is less certain because of inherent contradictions in the members’ ambitions, prospects, and security challenges. The United States engages Russia for strategic, not economic reasons.
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