Was the June 2024 conviction of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for violating the Espionage Act a victory for national security or a defeat for freedom of ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The ...

There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onward, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were ...

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry ...

Darryl Hart is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The Foreign Policy Research Institute is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan ...

Although “democracy promotion” has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag ...

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

PLATracker, an organization dedicated to data-driven analysis of the Chinese military and regional security developments in the Indo-Pacific. He is a graduate of the Elliott School of International ...

On April 8, 2024, the PLA Eastern Theater Command announced the three-day Joint Sword exercise around Taiwan. The exercise ...

The following conversation was recorded in September 2024 and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here. Rick Landgraf: This is the Ties That Bind, a special podcast series ...