A Framework for Nordpolitik Following the Death of Kim Jong Nam
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS on 9 March 2017. On Feb. 13, 2017, Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated in Malaysia. South Korean...
View ArticleHow Will Trump Wage War? What Early Signs of a Risk-Acceptant President Mean...
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 7 March 2017. Since inauguration, President Trump has signaled a strong commitment to the use of force – especially to secure...
View ArticleEuropean Defence 2016
This article was originally published by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) on 1 March 2017. The first EUISS Security Monthly Stats (SMS) brings together defence data from the...
View ArticleStop Believing in the Many Myths of the Iraq Surge
This article was published by War is Boring on 10 March 2017. Politicians and military officers continue to insist the 2007 troop surge was a glorious success. It wasn’t. The other day, I found myself...
View ArticleAustralian Defense Policy in the Trump Era
This article was originally published by the East-West Center on 27 February 2017. The recent story of Australian defense policy is straightforward. Faced with an increasingly adverse strategic...
View ArticleJapan’s Five Futures
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS on 16 March 2017. If Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo wakes up these days with an extra bounce in his step, it’s with good reason. He has...
View Article“Peace Through Strength”: Deterrence in Chinese Military Doctrine
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 15 March 2017. “To pursue peace through strength, it shall be the policy of the United States to rebuild the U.S. Armed Forces.” President...
View ArticleUN Peacekeeping and Counter-terrorism
This article was originally published by Sustainable Security on 14 March 2017. There are strong calls to give UN peacekeeping operations more robust mandates to engage in counter-terrorism tasks. But...
View ArticleBurma is still on the Rocky Road to Democracy
This article was originally published by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on 17 March 2017. When the iconic democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi won her historic, landslide election in Burma...
View ArticleA Wary Farewell to Arms for the FARC
This article was originally published by the International Crisis Group (ICG) on 9 March 2017. When Colombians streamed to the polls four months ago to vote in a plebiscite to accept or reject a peace...
View ArticleSpiritual Ardor and Military Might: The Story of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 23 March 2017. Afshon Ostovar, Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Oxford University Press, 2016)...
View ArticleISIS in Africa: Implications from Syria and Iraq
This article was originally published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) on 17 March 2017. At the end of 2016, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),...
View ArticleReasons for Rejecting Globalisation: Beyond Inequality and Xenophobia
This article was originally published by the Elcano Royal Institute on 14 March 2017. Theme The authors analyse reasons accounting for the growing discontent with globalisation and the liberal...
View ArticleFukushima Six Years After: East Asia’s Nuclear Energy Conundrum
This article was originally published by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) on 16 March 2017. Synopsis Human factors such as complacency and lack of questioning attitude have been...
View ArticleRussia’s Reimagined Arctic
This article was originally published by World Policy on 15 March 2017. In this text, Arctic Yearbook managing editor Heather Exner-Pirot interviews George Soroka, lecturer at Harvard University and...
View ArticleFish Wars: How Fishing Can Start – and Stop – Conflict
This article was published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 17 March 2017. On February 18, the US sent naval ships to the South China Seas, an area of armed tension over rich but dwindling fishing...
View ArticleOman’s Unique Approach to Mediation: A Solution for Sunni-Shia Conflicts?
Mediation Perspectives is a periodic blog entry that’s provided by the CSS’ Mediation Support Team and occasional guest authors. Each entry is designed to highlight the utility of mediation approaches...
View ArticleCan Military Might Alone Defeat al-Shabaab?
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 21 March 2017. Developing a “security pact” to tackle insurgent jihadists al-Shabaab, who continue to stifle state-building efforts,...
View ArticleIs it Time to Drop the F-Bomb on Russia? Why Putin is Almost a Fascist
This article was originally published in Volume 34, Number 1 of the World Policy Journal in Spring 2017. Abstract Vladimir Putin’s Russia meets the classical definition of fascist state, says Maria...
View ArticleThe Threat of US Cuts: Helping Peacekeeping Help Itself?
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 30 March 2017. As the prospect of United States funding cuts hangs over the United Nations and its flagship peacekeeping operations...
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