Forget the Subs: What Taipei Can Learn from Tehran about Asymmetric Defense
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 6 April 2017. Ahead of the Donald Trump-Xi Jinping summit this week at Mar-a-Lago, Taiwan is understandably anxious. Trump’s ascendance to...
View ArticleLibya: The Strategy that Wasn’t
This article was originally published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) on 6 April 2017. As a failed state in the European Union’s immediate neighbourhood that serves as a base camp for...
View ArticleThe ICJ as an Effective Conflict Prevention Tool in Latin America
This article was originally published by E-International Relations (E-IR) on 4 April 2017. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has made a name for itself as various governments across the world...
View ArticleCarl von Clausewitz Reviewed
This article was originally published in Volume 17, Number 2 of the Canadian Military Journal in spring 2017. These four recent books on the Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) attest yet...
View Article“Normalization Under Occupation”: The Revived Arab Peace Initiative
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 6 April 2017. Once more, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 is taking center stage. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas...
View ArticleThe Two Levels of Russia’s South China Sea Policies
This article was originally published by the East-West Center (EWC) on 28 March 2017. Russia’s policies regarding the South China Sea (SCS) dispute are more complex than they might seem. Moscow’s...
View ArticleChallenges to US-Russia Strategic Arms Control during the Trump Presidency
This article was originally published by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) on 3 April 2017. The coming years may mark the end of bilateral limitations of U.S. and Russian nuclear...
View ArticleLess Armed Conflict but More Political Violence in Africa
This article was originally published by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) on 12 April 2017. Conflict data sources show fewer armed conflicts, but are we getting the full picture? Political...
View ArticleNuclear Weapons in a Post-Christian World
This article was originally published by YaleGlobal on 18 April 2017. Debate about a nuclear arms race may be missing a moral dimension, and these debates should include all nuclear powers The second...
View ArticleKeeping Up Civ-Mil Relations
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 19 April 2017. James Mattis was sworn in as secretary of defense in what is arguably one of the more fraught periods in civil-military...
View ArticleCommunity-based Approaches to Early Warning and Early Response: Re-thinking...
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 ArticleWanted: A New Ideology
This article was originally published by SAGE International Australia (S.I.A) on 28 February 2017. At present, it is very difficult to avoid examples and discussion of terms such as ‘truthiness’,...
View ArticleA New Strategy toward North Korea: Proactive, Comprehensive, and Productive
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS on 21 April 2017. The US has been contending with the challenge of the North Korean nuclear program for decades, yet we are no closer to the...
View ArticleRussia: A Land Power Hungry for the Sea
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 19 April 2017. Trying to understand the military behavior of nations has been a hobby of Western academics, beginning with the great...
View ArticleIs President Trump’s Foreign Policy Shaping Up?
This article was originally published by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) on 20 April 2017. April has been an eventful month geopolitically so far. President Trump carried out a...
View ArticleLone-Actor vs Remote-Controlled Jihadi Terrorism: Rethinking the Threat to...
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 20 April 2017. At approximately 2:40 in the afternoon of March 22nd, British-born Khalid Masood — a violent criminal who had previously been...
View ArticleMissing Manpower: How Japan’s Dwindling Population Impedes Remilitarization
This article was originally published by the Harvard International Review (HIR) on 17 April 2017. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his skepticism toward America’s most important security...
View ArticleA Year of “Sustaining Peace”: What Was Learned from Burundi and The Gambia?
This article was originally published by the International Peace Institute (IPI) Global Observatory on 27 April 2017. A year ago today, the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly adopted...
View ArticleFinis Europae? Historical Cycles and the Rise of Right Wing Populism
This article was originally published by openDemocracy on 26 April 2017. Why has Europe failed to inspire its citizens in a similar way to other ideas such as the nation, socialism or human rights?...
View ArticleIn a Deluge of New Media, Autocrats Swim and Democracies Sink
This article was originally published by World Affairs on 1 Mai 2017. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. At the beginning of the century, the spread of the internet, satellite television, and other...
View Article