Tag: War & Conflict
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Matters Military: National Security Reform is Dead, Long Live National Security Reform!
Interagency teams are supposed to help produce a whole of government approach to national security issues. As things stand those terms remain terms of aspiration more than terms…
December 16, 2011
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Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir: No Grand Bargain Here
While the US is drawing down from Afghanistan, the Schaffer’s plan does not present a feasible solution to America’s issues in South Asia. First, India has positioned itself…
December 6, 2011
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South China Sea Conflict May Escalate Due to Energy Insecurity
As for China, the government has been unable to legitimate its sovereignty claims due to competing claims by the other powers. Furthermore, China needs to maintain a peaceful…
November 1, 2011
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Rationality and Nuclear Weapons: Revisiting Kenneth Waltz
As a structural realist, Waltz’s beliefs are centered on the conception of states as unitary, rational actors. He argues that states seek survival above all else. This interest…
October 24, 2011
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On the Killing of Anwar al-Aulaki: Five Minutes with Dr Elizabeth Grimm
GJIA: Did al-Aulaki’s American citizenship, along with his native English, make him particularly effective as a jihadist evangelist and recruiter? Eg: Al-Aulaki’s…
October 24, 2011
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Strategic Optimism and the Arab Spring
These bloody events are tragic and ominous – but they are not a reason to give up on the Arab Spring. The popular protests that swept the Arab world this year are still the…
October 24, 2011
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Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea Warrants Tough US Response
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…
October 24, 2011