As Secretary of Defense, I devoted a large amount of my time to visiting our troops at bases around the world. These were my favorite trips…
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights John Shattuck compares anti-democratic movements in Hungary and the United States.…
Over the past quarter century, U.S. foreign policy has been nothing if not ambitious: from fighting terrorists and spreading democracy to…
No piece of hardware better exemplifies America’s military might than an aircraft carrier. And for more than seven decades, dating to the…
When making decisions under uncertainty, it is important to distinguish between the probability that a judgment is true and the confidence…
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded…
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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…
Few people have sat across from the Iranians and the North Koreans at the negotiating table. Wendy Sherman has done both. During her time…
Nation 1 is seeking to join the nuclear club. Nation 2, its enemy, would like to prevent this, and has the potential to destroy 1's bomb-…