Last week's death of former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze brought well-deserved tributes for his central role in bringing the…
As states move to lower numbers of nuclear weapons and need
the ability to detect and monitor smaller items and…
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…
In an intensely competitive and interdependent global landscape, and in the face of large climate risks from ongoing U.S. reliance on a…
Who caused the Cold War? In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy downplayed the role of human agency in shaping events, writing that “a king is…
The seismic shocks rocking the Middle East this week — renewed war in Iraq, an emerging radical Sunni Caliphate, and a possible independent…
Solar geoengineering (or Solar Radiation Management, SRM) refers to any intentional, large-scale manipulation of the Earth's incoming solar…