Tag: War & Conflict
177 Articles
- Conflict & Security
The Future of US-Kazakhstan Relations
In the post-COVID-19 world, the US government should implement more initiatives to further strengthen ties with Kazakhstan, as the pro-US attitude of its government and the…
May 28, 2020
- Society & Culture
US-Iranian Relations Remain on Track for Escalation
While regime continuity is not in doubt, Iran is undergoing its worst period of turmoil since the 1980s. The sudden closing of external trade, currency depreciation, and…
May 27, 2020
- Global Governance
Street Truth and Desk Truth
This was the center of a week-long trip to the Philippines as a new Trustee of The Asia Foundation, the US non-profit that works to promote civic improvement in Asia. We started…
May 15, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
Oil, Ethnic Conflict, and Necessary and Sufficient Reforms
Guyana, a small, English-speaking country of about 780,000 people in South America, comes out at the bottom of the Human Development Index ranking of the fifteen full members of…
May 12, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Look to Idlib: A Preview of Warfare in the New Decade
Powerful capabilities and disruptive technologies were unleashed to devastating effect on the battlefield—all while combatants captured and uploaded the conflict onto social…
May 8, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Libya’s Civil War: US Abdication Providing a Playground for Foreign Intervention
A central tenet of US policy towards Libya after Qaddafi was to prevent outside actors from intervening in the country’s internal affairs. In that spirit, the United States…
April 27, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Frameworks for Dissent and Principled Resignation in the US Military: A Primer
The Crozier affair should prompt senior military officers to contemplate situations in which ethics may demand a leader to express dissent, to resign, or even to disobey orders.…
April 17, 2020
- Global Governance
Peace in Northern Ireland: A Model for Ending Wars?
The accord was hugely significant, not least because it was so unexpected. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, television news in the United Kingdom and Ireland would feature reports…
April 16, 2020
- Global Governance
The Libyan Conflict: A Priority for the European Union?
A Country Torn in Two A few years after the 2011 NATO strikes, Libya has been engulfed in civil war, causing the country to split in two. The UN-recognized Government of National…
April 10, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Ben Buchanan on Cybersecurity Challenges in Democracy and Statecraft
GJIA: In today’s event, you discussed how cyber warfare is more like covert operations than traditional warfare. What do you think might be the positive and negative…
March 24, 2020