Tag: Regimes & Governance

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Global Governance
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What Cuba’s Reforms Tell Us About the Country’s Leadership

While much attention has been paid to the scope of these and similar reforms, what they reveal about the country’s leadership has been largely ignored. The Cuban government…

January 14, 2013

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The U.S. Should Not Intervene Militarily in Syria

We must seek a way to end the ongoing crisis in Syria which has now become an all-out civil war with tragic proportions.  Most recent reports place the death toll at over 35…

December 13, 2012

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21st Century Eisenhower? Obama’s New “New Look” Defense Policy

Eisenhower’s “New Look” program came out of his conviction that the proper objective of the military was to prevent, not fight, wars. This would be especially true in the…

November 20, 2012

Conflict & Security

Abandon a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone

At the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in 2010, delegates were, for the first time, able to progress with a UN Resolution for a MEWMDFZ. The regional…

October 30, 2012

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It’s Time to Revise How We Talk About Revisionist Powers

There is a conceptual problem in ascribing the term revisionist to describe the respective foreign policy goals to international actors, such as Napoleonic France, modern Iran,…

October 29, 2012

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What is Brazil Up to with its Nuclear Policy?

Relations with Argentina, its longtime rival, have warmed and the two states even cooperate on nuclear and other security issues. Compared to the Middle East, South America is…

October 10, 2012

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Iran and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Response to Kenneth Waltz

An eminent and lucid scholar, Waltz committed the error of trying to fit an incorrect piece of a puzzle into a coherent theory. His theory whereby nuclear powers have never gone…

August 20, 2012

Dialogues
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From Moscow to Beijing: Five Minutes with Professors Jason Bruder and Frank Jannuzi

[GJIA]: This is your first time teaching at Georgetown University. But you are also still working full-time at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. How are you finding your…

March 6, 2012

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Rebranding Russia: The Promise of Putin

The Times Literary Supplement’s survey of recent Putin literature acknowledges that imaging is the greatest task confronting Russia today: The Kremlin’s biggest problem is…

March 6, 2012

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The Journal Revisited: Shadow over the Subcontinent

In addition, they recommended that India sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to boost its credibility. But ten years later, where do things stand? The authors argued…

February 22, 2012