A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World…
It's almost Shakespearean. Since the day he arrived in Washington, Barack Obama’s defining foreign-policy passion has been to get the…
In this essay I respond to commentators on Ethics for Enemies, including (1) Caspar Hare on torture and other harms imposed on an agent…
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The seismic shocks rocking the Middle East this week — renewed war in Iraq, an emerging radical Sunni Caliphate, and a possible independent…
Seventy years later, it is what they managed to do here that is still so striking and inspiring. The greatest amphibious invasion in…
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and…
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to…
For a president with impressive foreign policy successes in his first term, Barack Obama has had a difficult year and a half on the global…
When we try to understand cyber governance, it is important to remember how new cyberspace is. The World Wide Web was conceived in 1989,…