2014 was an annus horribilis in foreign policy, as the Ebola crisis, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the rise of ISIS in a burning Middle East…
As the savage killings and stratospheric refugee numbers in Syria continue to climb, a key question emerges. When will the United States…
Of all the international crises facing President Obama in his final two years in office, how to cope with a burning Iraq and disintegrating…
Ideas are strangely absent from modern models of political economy. In most prevailing theories of policy choice, the dominant role is…
In this essay, I summarize major points of my Ethics for Enemies. I first consider whether torture of a wrongdoer to save his victim could…
Over thirty years, the Aspen Strategy Group has shied from no crisis or tense relationship troubling the world, from the Middle East to…
The US Intelligence Community (IC) has been heavily criticized for making inaccurate estimates. Many scholars and officials believe that…
This week's international headlines look awfully daunting to Americans. Tuesday’s vicious Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem reminds…
The Aspen Strategy Group's Policy Books is an annual series of pieces on the United States most pressing foreign policy and national…