Diplomacy Middle East Versus the West? How a UN Diplomat’s… Lora Karch Aug 9, 2021 “Lack of love. Strategy, commerce, exploitation, securing an imperial route: these were why the West, for the most…
Defense & Security COVID-19 and the Increasing Risk of Terrorism Mohamed ELDoh Oct 2, 2020 There is no doubt that the global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of life. From how we interact…
Defense & Security Paid to Kill: An Examination of the Evolution of… Joshua E. Duke Aug 6, 2020 Throughout world history, as long as there has been conflict among people, there have been people willing to pay…
Defense & Security After Almost Twenty Years, America’s “War on Terrorism”… John Arias Jul 17, 2020 September 11th, 2020 will mark the nineteenth year since the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. For those…
Defense & Security Now That Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is Dead, What Next? Alan Lis Dec 10, 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, was killed on the 26th of October in a raid carried out by…
Defense & Security Sri Lanka: Jihadism and Separatism in an… Paolo Zucconi Apr 26, 2019 On April 21st, Sri Lanka suffered from several lethal terrorist attacks that killed at least 359 people and injured…
Defense & Security Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Group: Consequences… Ali Arfa Apr 17, 2019 The obsession in the United States with the “war on terror” entered a new phase when U.S. President Donald Trump…
Defense & Security The Next Middle East Conflict Could Emerge Out of a… Ali Arfa Mar 18, 2019 Pandora's Box of cyber warfare was opened when the United States and Israel initiated the Stuxnet attack on Iranian…
Diplomacy What’s next for Iran after the U.S. withdrawal… Ehsan Ahrari Jun 11, 2018 Iran versus the United States Commenting on competitive interactions between a weak and a strong state, Thucydides…
Government & Politics 10 Elections to Watch in 2018 James M. Lindsay Dec 8, 2017 Millions of people around the world voted in elections this year. The French elected Emmanuel Macron president,…
Defense & Security What to Watch For in Post-ISIS Iraq and Syria Zachary Laub Oct 24, 2017 As the campaigns to wrest the Islamic State from the territory it held in Iraq and Syria near completion, new…
Defense & Security Converging Economic and Demographic Trends Threaten… Joshua Ball Oct 21, 2017 With oil prices unlikely to recover to levels of the petroleum boom governments may have to limit cash payments and…