Just how powerful is the United States? Is it still the unipolar power, able to impose its will on adversaries, allies, and neutrals, and…
As a species, we seem to be in a period of considerable uncertainty, where familiar features of the political landscape are disappearing,…
Ever since the Treaty of Westphalia, the idea of territorial sovereignty has been central to how most of us think about international…
NATO is facing one of its most difficult crises in seven decades. It is not a crisis of military strength or readiness. The alliance is…
spent much of last week in Toronto at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. For those of you outside academia, this…
As NATO marks its 70th anniversary this week, this unique, often unwieldy, 29-member alliance is confronting one of the most difficult sets…
Soft power is the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion or…
In mid-January, a team of scholars from the Belfer Center’s Intelligence and Managing the Atom Projects traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to…
Maintaining U.S. leadership in the NATO Alliance and sustaining the critical relationship between the U.S. and the European Union will…