Category Security & Conflict

Asia Pacific, Europe, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

Europe’s Borderlands and China’s Challenge: Why War in Ukraine Matters

March 12, 2022

How are we to understand Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,[1] and how are we to respond? Invoking fabricated grievances,[2],[3] Russia on February 24, 2022 launched an all-out war against Ukraine. Friends and allies have shown solidarity, as Europe, the United States,…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, Governance & Law, Security & Conflict

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Review: Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (Eds.) Kashmir and the Future of South Asia

December 31, 2021

Kashmir and the Future of South Asia edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal examines the Kashmir crisis from a people-centered approach using a framework of state sovereignty and national security. The authors use the Kashmir crisis to illustrate how…

Asia Pacific, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

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Towards an ASEAN Model for Cooperation in Central Asia

October 28, 2021

ASEAN provides a working framework for Central Asian states to engage in comprehensive regional cooperation to neutralize internal conflicts and survive great power competition. A New Saigon After years of fighting a rural insurgency, a rushed American withdrawal leads to…

Europe, North America, Security & Conflict

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Summons to Appear: NotPetya and the War Exclusion Clause

August 17, 2021

Introduction On June 27, 2017, a red and black skull flashed across hundreds of PCs across the world. The malware, known as NotPetya, spread rapidly and indiscriminately, integrating tools of EternalBlue and Mimikatz in a virulent combination.[1] The malware cost…

Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

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The United States Should Revive the Arctic Executive Steering Committee

August 2, 2021

The United States has set its sights on the Arctic as an emerging region of importance for US national security. In the past two years alone, the Department of Defense,[1] Department of Homeland Security,[2] Army,[3] Air Force,[4] Navy,[5] and Coast…

Europe, Security & Conflict

Russia Is Receding, Not Resurging: Why the United States Should Forego Another Containment Strategy

April 25, 2021

Is Russia resurgent? Some Kremlinologists would respond “yes” after its saber-rattling over Ukraine, transnational cyberattacks, and nuclear weapon modernizations over the past few years. In January, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul wrote in Foreign Affairs that U.S. citizens “wrongly assume”…

Asia Pacific, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

The United States Needs India and Taiwan to Counterbalance China: Will the “Milk Tea Alliance” Work?

March 5, 2021

The White House declassified one of its most sensitive operational policies, the “U.S. strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific,” as part of the final maneuvers of Donald Trump’s presidency in early January 2021.[1] That decision bewildered diplomats, policymakers, and scholars at home and abroad.…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Security & Conflict

The Future Arenas of Great Power Competition

November 29, 2020

For two decades, US military leaders have focused almost entirely on training and equipping the force for counter-insurgency operations. With politicians now intent on drawing down the United States’ involvement in the Middle East, the military has shifted its focus…

Asia Pacific, Security & Conflict

Bias and the Perceived China Threat

September 3, 2020

The health of Sino-American relations will be an important bellwether of American economic and national security success in the years to come. Because China is so important to America’s future, the United States must get it right with how it…

Book Reviews, Governance & Law, Security & Conflict

The Hacker and the State by Ben Buchanan

August 28, 2020

Review of Buchanan, Ben. The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2020) Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley company that makes networking products, made headlines in early June. Sixteen members of…

Book Reviews, Europe, Security & Conflict

The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World After Brexit

August 2, 2020

Review of Hill, Christopher. The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World After Brexit (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019) On January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom formally left the European Union. For most observers, Brexit Day meant…

Governance & Law, Regional, Security & Conflict, South America

The Governance Competition in the Americas: “Criminal Charity” During COVID-19 Will Have Decade-long Consequences

June 9, 2020

Latin America’s criminal groups have leveraged the coronavirus pandemic to win the goodwill and support of local populations by delivering humanitarian assistance and co-opting public service provision in communities underserved by state institutions. Such levels of “criminal charity” could complicate the future efforts of Latin America’s weakest states to dismantle and defeat organized crime groups, whose power has grown in recent years.