For many years sovereignty over the South China Sea (SCS) has been a contentious subject for China and several of its Southeast Asian[1] neighbors due to their overlapping…
Read Waltz’s original piece: Is Kenneth Waltz Still M.A.D. About Nukes? In the winter of 2000, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs interviewed Kenneth…
On 30 September 2011, the United States used an automated drone to kill Yemeni-American and prominent al-Qaida operative Anwar al-Aulaki in the Jawf province of Yemen. Al-Aulaki had leveraged his…
Early October saw more violence against Egyptian Christians. Although reports are still murky (see 1, 2, 3), security forces and men in civilian clothes – perhaps rioters,…
With much of the world’s attention fixed on the Middle East, China has aggressively positioned itself as the dominant force in the resource-rich South China Sea. Laying claim to…