Tag: Military & Defense
111 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Why Hezbollah Fell
Introduction On March 3, 2025, Nawaf Moussawi, one of the few remaining senior figures of Hezbollah, sat for an interview with al-Mayadeen TV to discuss the militant group’s…
March 31, 2025
- Conflict & Security
Civilian Protection as Strategy: A New Approach to Counterterrorism in West Africa
Introduction The last ten years of counterterrorism in West Africa are difficult to characterize as anything other than a failure. Notwithstanding interventions from France and…
March 26, 2025
- Global Governance
Russia in Africa: Private Military Proxies in the Sahel
Introduction Russia’s approach to the Sahel can be best described as opportunistic. Rather than advancing a coherent regional policy, Moscow has capitalized on its deepening…
March 24, 2025
- Global Governance
Renewing its Vows: U.S. Commitment to the Defense of South Korea
Amidst a cascade of increasingly bellicose behavior, Kim Jong Un has accepted a new political reality on the Korean Peninsula. Instead of seeking the peaceful unification of…
January 6, 2025
- Conflict & Security
How the New Geopolitics of Energy Informs the Current Oil Price-Risk Relationship in the Middle East
Introduction There is now some consensus among oil market participants that the long-held assumption of a correlation of oil price to Middle East regional risk is broken. Since…
December 10, 2024
- Conflict & Security
The Amazon as a State Matter: Exploring the Role of Military in Forest Governance
The rise in environmental crimes in the Brazilian Amazon reflects the growing scale of transnational groups conducting illegal resource exploitation. Their schemes are sensitive…
November 12, 2024
- Society & Culture
From Deng to Xi, China’s Foreign Policy Identity Has Been Consistent
Despite claims that Xi Jinping’s leadership has adopted a more aggressive foreign policy driven by nationalism, the effect of national identity on Chinese foreign policy has…
October 10, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Demystifying the Enemy: Putin’s Geopolitical Calculus and the War in Ukraine
Many assessments of the reasons for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have emphasized Vladimir Putin’s individual characteristics, such as his early career as a KGB officer,…
August 28, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Southeast Asia’s Grand Strategy: Hedging
Southeast Asian nations such as Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, but also ASEAN, are hedging toward both China and the United States. However, China’s assertiveness in…
August 12, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Stabilizing the NATO-Russia Deterrence Relationship
Introduction At this historical juncture, policy discussions about the possibility of restarting NATO-Russia dialogue are misguided. Grand discussions about the European security…
July 26, 2024