Can Bullets Kill Soft Power? The National Rifle Association as a Threa ...
Image Caption: Although most regard the National Rifle Association (NRA) as relevant and influential to domestic U.S. politics, the organization may in fact threaten the reputation of the United States as an international moral authority. Introduction […]
The End of War and Peace: The Thesis of Frédéric Gros and the Federa ...
Image Caption: 03/17/2018 – Army Patrol in Vila Kennedy (Rio de Janeiro-RJ). By Mauro Pimentel/Agence France-Presse[1] “The war as ‘armed, public and just conflict,’ slowly disappears, with its lies and its nobilities, its atrocities and its […]
Slovak Anxiety and Europeanisation: Ontological (In)security in Slovak ...
Image Caption: Former Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (right) has toed the line between arguments in favor of its place in the European Union and nationalist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that starkly contrasts with the position taken by […]
Reconciliation in Settler-Colonial States: A Study of the Political Ap ...
Image Caption: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologizes to the First Nations, the indigenous people who, for over one hundred years of settler-colonialism, suffered from family separation and abuse at the hand of colonial and post-colonial […]
First Place — On the Shores of Bab-el-Mandeb: Assessing China’s F ...
Image caption: U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Camp Lemonnier walk on the deck of the Chinese hospital ship, Ark Peace, in the Port of Djibouti, August 28, 2017. (Source) This essay was originally published in the […]
Featured Articles
Professor Christopher Andrew Delivers First of Three-Part Henry L. Sti ...
On Monday, November 5th, Christopher Andrew delivered the first of his three-part Henry L. Stimson Lecture series on the history of global intelligence. Andrew, a professor emeritus at Cambridge and the former official historian of MI5, […]
Chinese Control of the Mekong River Delta
Image Caption: Flash flooding as a result of a collapsed dam in Laos led to the deaths of at least 40 people and caused several dozen others to go missing this summer, implicating complex geo-political conflicts between […]
China with Global Characteristics: Why the Global Order is Safe from C ...
Image Caption: Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Great Hall of the People, outlining his vision for the potential for Chinese leadership in the world at a time when Western powers are wrestling […]
On Shaping China’s Food System: A Conversation with Wanqing Zhou
Earlier this month, the Yale-China Association and the Yale Sustainable Food Project (YSFP) co-hosted Wanqing Zhou for a conversation about China’s food industry, especially in regard to the relationship between the meat industry and climate change. […]
The Sweden Democrats: How an Anti-Immigrant Party is Reshaping Swedish ...
Image Caption: With the unprecedented rise of an extremist anti-immigrant party in the 2018 parliamentary elections, Sweden’s facade of political stability has shattered. While the rest of Europe witnessed a wave of populist and anti-immigrant parties rise […]
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Chinese Control of the Mekong River Del ...
Image Caption: Flash flooding as a result of a collapsed dam in Laos led to the deaths of at least 40 people and caused several dozen others to go …
China with Global Characteristics: Why ...
Image Caption: Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Great Hall of the People, outlining his vision for the potential for Chinese leadership in the world …
Book Reviews
Review: On Grand Strategy by John Lewis ...
John Lewis Gaddis’ most recent book certainly puts the ‘grand’ in Grand Strategy. It spans roughly 2,500 years of history and draws upon the works and deeds of individuals ranging …
Book Review: The Diffusion of Military ...
Summary In his book ‘The Diffusion of Military Power” Michael C. Horowitz presents an adoption-capacity theory that seeks to explain when and how states successfully adopt military technology and the adopted …
