The Gamble In Libya
Whatever you think of President Obama’s sudden decision last week to overturn his initial reluctance to intervene in Libya, the coalition has made a significant, positive difference in changing the di
Research
Response to Sri Lanka Nation Article on War, Peace, and Reconciliation: The Way Forward for Sri Lanka Seminar
The article “LTTE threat to disrupt Harvard discussion on Lanka turns into damp squib”, published on March 6, presented a severely distorted account of the March 1 seminar at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo
Zakaria's World
Fareed Zakaria is one of our most perceptive analysts of America's role in the world, and I generally agree with him.
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics
Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have?
American Interests in South Asia: Building a Grand Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
American Interests in South Asia: Building a Grand Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, is the latest in a series of policy books stemming from the Aspen Strategy Group's annual summer worksh
Where Do We Go From Here?
Most of the critics complaining about President Barack Obama's actions during the Egypt crisis charge that he has been excessively reticent and has failed to send an unequivocal statement of support t
What Egypt Means for the U.S.
What do the recent events in Egypt mean for the U.S.? The answer is a lot more complicated than it might seem. Egypt is important to the U.S. for a number of reasons.
The Future of Power
In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe.
Nuclear Lessons for Cyber Security?
Identifying “revolutions in military affairs” is arbitrary, but some inflection points in technological change are larger than others: for example, the gunpowder revolution in early modern Europe, the
All Stocks of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Materials Worldwide Must be Protected Against Global Terrorist Threats
The danger of nuclear terrorism is real enough to justify urgent action to reduce the risk.
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