Category: Conflict & Security
169 Articles
- Conflict & Security
China and the “Near-Arctic:” An Opportunity Lost Over 150 Years Ago
Before China’s near-Arctic assertion, the term “near-Arctic” was little-known and seldom used. There have been, however, related terms and concepts that conveyed a…
September 5, 2019
- Conflict & Security
NATO at 70: An Analysis of What’s Come, What’s Gone, and What the Future Holds
Looking Back When the Treaty of Brussels was signed on August 25, 1948, the world was, geopolitically-speaking, a strikingly different place. Just three years prior, Germany had…
September 3, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The Arms Trade and Syria
The Syrian Civil War represents one of the deadliest ongoing conflicts in the world. All parties to the conflict have leveraged an array of conventional weapons — as well as…
September 2, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The United States and its New Allies in Europe
Over the past several years, the United States has observed its influence in Europe progressively diminish, with Brussels increasingly pursuing policies that are regarded as…
July 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
PART II: Rethinking Deterrence
So What Now? Applying the experiences of the Cold War to the United States’ present circumstances suggests that a renewed strategy of containment, backed by a nuclear, …
July 11, 2019
- Conflict & Security
PART I: Rethinking Deterrence
Today, the United States finds itself facing two near-peer competitors in Russia and China. Both are asserting their power and exhibiting expansionist tendencies. Both understand…
July 9, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Preventing Violent Extremism at a Crossroads
As the report rightly notes, exorbitant funding has been earmarked to pursue counterterrorism and P/CVE objectives. Since 2001, the United States has spent an estimated .9…
June 27, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part II: (Un)Accountability for Torture
Public Reputational Accountability Gaps and Failures “The category of public reputational accountability,” Keohane asserts, “is meant to apply to situations in which…
June 20, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part I: (Un)Accountability for Torture
With the nomination and eventual appointment of Gina Haspel to the directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), debates around the legality and the morality of the…
June 17, 2019
- Conflict & Security
A Court Worth Having? Growing Pains at the International Criminal Court
The U.S. government has had a highly ambivalent attitude toward the ICC from the beginning. Washington long supported a jurisdictional procedure for an international criminal…
May 16, 2019