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Asia Pacific, Economics, Governance & Law, Interviews, North America, Policy & Politics

The Global Leadership Vacuum: An Interview with Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group

The SAIS Review
May 10, 2012

The SAIS Review’s Editor-in-Chief, Joshua Grundleger, and Senior Editor, Sean Creehan, recently sat down with Ian Bremmer, founder and president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm. Dr. Bremmer discussed the outlook for 2012 and the hidden risks that face…

Asia Pacific, Civil Society, Economics, Interviews, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Strategic Vision: An Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski

The SAIS Review
April 4, 2012

The SAIS Review chats with former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski about his new book, Strategic Vision, and some of the most pressing issues—American decline, Iran, and China—facing today’s policy-makers.

Civil Society, Economics, Europe, Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics

Democracies Can Hit the Pause Button

March 26, 2012

Democracies on both sides of the Atlantic are facing challenges -- causing chatter amongst pundits about decline or dissolution.

Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, Policy & Politics

Making Biography in Foreign Policy: Elections 2012

March 25, 2012

This year’s slew of elections and other leadership selection processes will see new heads of state in many capitals around the world. Leadership matters—as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “there is properly no history, only biography….” Presidential elections have already…

Europe, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

The Big Chill: Priorities & Realities for a Modern NATO

February 23, 2012

The final installment of a three-part series on NATO by Nic Wondra. See the first and second articles. A different NATO might restore a solidarity lost with the invasion of Iraq. The alliance’s moral credibility and the credible threat of hard power deployment are…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

NATO on the Rocks? Stirred, Not Shaken

February 2, 2012

The first in a three part series by Nic Wondra on NATO and its future role in security

Asia Pacific, Economics, North America, Security & Conflict

Misperceptions, Part III: Defense Cuts, An Alternative to the Sequester

January 31, 2012

My first post noted that the sums being considered for defense cuts, even in the case of the sequester, are actually quite low, particularly when compared to some of the other historical builddowns (post-Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War). The…

Asia Pacific, Economics, North America, Security & Conflict

Misperceptions, Part II: Defense Cuts, Strategic Deficiencies?

January 31, 2012

In the first post of this series I argued that the impact of sequester cuts on Defense’s budget has been overstated. Similarly, in order to bolster arguments for exempting defense from belt buckling (Defense was the only of 13 government…

Asia Pacific, Economics, North America, Security & Conflict

Misperceptions, Part I: The Truth About Defense Cuts, The Sequester

January 30, 2012

The first of a three-part series analyzing defense spending priorities in the United States