The U.S. Navy – Navigating Through a Changing Climate
Predicting the range of future challenges is no easy matter, but it is a necessary part of how military organizations prepare, invest in platforms and weapon systems, conduct training, and concentrate their forces.
Is the USA Still the Indispensible Power in East Asia?
The rise of a unified East Asia will recalibrate regional security arrangements, re-moulding the contours of a decreasingly unipolar order.
Libya Was Easy
Libya was easy, but Syria is hard. The question this time is whether the architects of R2P envisaged both types of scenarios when they came up with the concept.
The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism
Some theories of multiculturalism sell out democratic principles. ‘Culture’ has been turned into a political ideology that overrules democratic principles and human rights.
What to Do? The Climate Security Policy Conundrum
One of the dominant themes of this entire literature is that physical exposure is not destiny. Governance and political dynamics are as, if not more, important in explaining whether or not environmental shocks, scarcity, and abundance lead to conflict.
A Greater Role for International Institutions?
The world is heading in a direction of increasing complexity, mutual reliance, co-operation, and diversity. Institutions provide the forums for the co-ordination of efforts that are needed if we are to continue on this path to prosperity.
How US Foreign Policy affects Iran’s Identity: Implications for the Nuclear Issue
This dissertation aims to establish the cumulative effect that the interactions between the USA and Iran have had on Iran’s identity.
Military Ethics and Cultural Knowledge
Each approach has its own inherent limitations. The human terrain approach was a ‘quick-fix’. But maybe the US Air Force’s model of cross-cultural competence offers more promise.
Identimetrics: Operationalizing Identity in Counterinsurgency Operations
Identimetrics adds identity to the operational and strategic context of counterinsurgency, which must be considered when operating in foreign environments and within foreign cultures.
Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War
There can be little doubt that the spirit is the principal cause of war across the centuries, and that it and its consequences have been almost totally ignored in the international relations literature.
