An Outlook on Global Politics 2018
The year 2018 promises to be a year of significant challenge to global stability and peace.
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Election Cyber Incident Communications Coordination Guide
This Guide is primarily intended for use by the EI-GCC to coordinate multiple voices (and multiple facts) in an election cyber incident that crosses traditional jurisdictions.
Confronting an Enemy with Unknown Preferences: Deterrer or Provocateur?
Nation 1 is seeking to join the nuclear club. Nation 2, its enemy, would like to prevent this, and has the potential to destroy 1’s bomb-making facilities. It is uncertain whether 1 has a bomb.
An Uneasy Unpeace
In the cyber arena, the same technologies that are creating unprecedented benefits for billions are also democratizing destruction.
The Future of Politics
Until the beginning of this century, politics seemed headed towards a democratic future, as more countries adopted – in full or in part – the basic tenets of democratic process.
Is Nuclear War Inevitable?
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un trading threats with words like “fire and fury”; Pakistan deploying tactical nuclear weapons to counter Indian conventional threats; Russia enunciating an Orwellian doctri
America is on the Brink of a Historic Break With Europe, Thanks to Trump
The Trump administration’s newly unveiled national security strategy lists reinforcing America’s alliances as a major objective.
Dismantling the Foreign Service
The Foreign Service, our country’s irreplaceable asset for understanding and interacting with a complex and dangerous world, is facing perhaps its greatest crisis.
What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb
When I began my career in elementary particle physics, the great figures who taught and inspired me had been part of the Manhattan Project generation that developed the atomic bomb.
US Energy Diplomacy in an Age of Energy Abundance
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy.
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