That Iran's nuclear challenge poses the most urgent threat to peace and security today is widely agreed across the national security…
Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial…
Changes in quality and availability of information related to human rights violations raise questions about how best to use existing data…
Contrary to a small army of critics and "armchair quarterbacks," Professor Burns gives Secretary of State John Kerry a "job-well-done" in…
American politicians often take it for granted that national security would be enhanced by accelerating domestic oil production, through…
Book abstract: At the height of the Cultural Revolution a Chinese long-range nuclear missile is fired within the country, and the nuclear…
Drawing upon theories of the diffusion of global norms, this study addresses two issues: is there a shared consensus among experts about…
The debate about how to handle the Iranian nuclear program has resurfaced since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent comments…
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men…
In the face of a nearly impossible diplomatic dilemma, the US must continue to have an open mind toward Egypt.