Professor Burns discusses this week's extraordinary events surrounding the chaos in Syria and the Russian offer to broker a diplomatic end…
Finding himself rushed into ordering a symbolic attack about which he had serious doubts, President Obama called time out and put the…
There has been a noticeable shift in policy and tone coming from Iran, courtesy of its new president, Hassan Rouhani. Professor Burns…
Theory creating and hypothesis testing are both critical components of social science, but the former is ultimately more important. Yet, in…
With a speed few predicted, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has signaled his interest in negotiations this autumn on Iran’s…
That Iran's nuclear challenge poses the most urgent threat to peace and security today is widely agreed across the national security…
Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial…
Contrary to a small army of critics and "armchair quarterbacks," Professor Burns gives Secretary of State John Kerry a "job-well-done" in…
American politicians often take it for granted that national security would be enhanced by accelerating domestic oil production, through…
Book abstract: At the height of the Cultural Revolution a Chinese long-range nuclear missile is fired within the country, and the nuclear…