Defense secretary Leon Panetta recently announced a new Pentagon strategy: fewer troops, and a 30 percent increase in the US fleet of…
We have grown accustomed to think of foreign policy as a series of unending crises in this complex time. And there are plenty of problems…
In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. The essays in…
Citing an escalating dispute over islands in the East China Sea, The Economist warned last week that “China and Japan are sliding toward…
What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012. Republican…
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must…
A leadership transition is scheduled in two major autocracies in 2012. Neither is likely to be a surprise. Xi Jinping is set to replace Hu…
While the economy will be the central issue of the presidential campaign, foreign policy and national security should be a close second.…
For years, the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been saddled with a reputation for empirical narrowness and lack of…
Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning…