Category: Conflict & Security
172 Articles
- 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
- Conflict & Security
Strengthening European Defense Capabilities: A Polish Perspective
Even as Poland celebrated the 20th anniversary of its accession to NATO last month, the assumptions Warsaw made in the 1990s are being tested by the recent onset of trans…
May 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part II: The Re-Emerging Nuclear Dimension in Russian-European Relations
Reinventing Extended Deterrence Many European politicians find conceptual luggage from the Cold War era both awkward and inappropriate in the evolving new confrontation with…
May 7, 2019
- Conflict & Security
How and Why the Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah Axis Has Won the War in Syria
As opposed to Western powers, the pro-Assad bloc set political objectives that were compatible with the military means. Indeed, it has been a classic Clausewitzian limited war.…
May 5, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Part I: The Re-Emerging Nuclear Dimension in Russian-European Relations
Introduction Russia is anchored to Europe by so many vital ties that all other frontiers in its vast geography are of only secondary importance. In the course of the new and fast…
May 4, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Signs of Life in Nuclear Diplomacy: A Look Beyond the Doom and Gloom
To be fair, PrepCom participants had every reason to succumb to the prevailing doom and gloom. Decades of gridlock over the NPT Review Process created a growing sense that…
April 27, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Nord Stream 2: A Failed Test for EU Unity and Transatlantic Coordination
While the EU Council has just established that pipelines with third countries must comply with EU gas rules, it remains unclear how this will impact Nord Stream 2–…
April 20, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Mirziyoyev’s Foreign Policy: Globalizing Uzbekistan in the Asian Century
Mirziyoyev’s posture on the advancement of Central Asian regionalism is a breath of fresh air. The policy of regional engagement pursued by the Uzbek leader – who abandoned…
April 2, 2019