Rebuilding Afghanistan in Its Own Failed Image
The Afghani Parliament in 2006. When it comes to the state-building effort in Afghanistan, there would seem to be plenty to criticize in the realm of poor polic...
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From Russia With Love: Mercenaries, Trolls, Oligarchs, and the Story of Yevgeniy Prigozhin
Two months ago, on the night of February 7th 2018, T-72 tanks, BRDM armored personnel carriers, and trucks carrying 122mm howitzer artillery and BM-21 rocket la...
Hybrid War: A Definition and Call for Action
If one were to divide violent conflict into two broad categories, on one side would lie traditional, so-called “conventional” warfare, and on the other, asymmet...
An Antagonized Russia
The Russian navy (from left) corvette Steregushchy, destroyer Nastoichivy and frigate Admiral Gorshkov are anchored in a bay of the base in Baltiysk in Kalining...
Peace for a Time: Neville Chamberlain’s Negotiation of the Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, is widely perceived today as a terrible mistake made by a weak leader. The standard narrative is that Prime Minister...
France’s Misguided Approach to Fake News
French president Emmanuel Macron held a press conference on January 3, 2018 in which he announced “a change to [France’s] legal arsenal to protect democratic li...
HIV-Positive Gay Community in Hong Kong: Sexual and Health Stigmatization Puts Lives at Stake
HIV/AIDS first appeared in The New York Times in 1982, originally referred to as Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). [i] Although GRID was later renamed to Ac...
Potential Peacemaker or Just Another Spectator?: China’s Relations with Israel and Palestine, and Its Prospect as a Broker for Peace
Introduction Many experts have recently taken a keener eye to the activities of China in the Middle East, especially following heightened Chinese involvement th...
Coverage and Reach, Affordability and Capacity? Gauging the Feasibility of the Mozambican Welfare State through Considerations of Divisive Internal Politics, International Agency Prescriptions, and South-South Cooperation
Abstract With cash transfer programmes, food subsidies, and other social protections, Mozambique’s welfare state addresses several critical areas of extreme pov...
Cyber-defense Strategies for Contending with Non-state Actors: A Review and Assessment of Existing Proposals
Introduction With the development of cyberspace and the Internet beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, new potential avenues for warfare and other hostile actions h...
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