Product Types: Commentary

Commentary

Help! The Stimson Connector Initiative Pilot Project On Trade Controls

Can civil society be engaged to help address international security issues? Governmental organizations have insufficient resources in funding and skills to address

May 6, 2015
Debra Decker
Commentary

Progress Made, Difficult Decisions Remain As Governments Conclude Arms Trade Treaty Meeting

The latest round of high-level meetings on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) – the world’s first treaty regulating transfers of conventional weapons

May 6, 2015
Rachel Stohl
Commentary

Despite Objections, China’s Land Reclamation Difficult to Deter

Last week, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued one of its strongest statements yet on China’s land reclamation in the South China

May 4, 2015
Yun Sun
Commentary

Deterrence Instability in South Asia

The United States wants to pivot to Asia, but the Middle East keeps getting in the way. Likewise, India wants to pivot

May 4, 2015
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Exercising Restraint? The New U.S. Rules for Drone Transfers

On February 5, Representative Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) urged the Obama administration to reverse its decision to deny a Jordanian request for unarmed

May 1, 2015
Rachel Stohl
Commentary

4 Takeaways From the New US-Japan Defense Guidelines

On April 27, the United States and Japan released the new Guidelines for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation. The document, originally created in 1979

April 29, 2015
Yuki Tatsumi
Commentary

An Immigrant’s Tale, From Saigon In ’75 To American Entrepreneur

By Francis Hoang:  Forty years ago on April 23, with the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists imminent, my family was evacuated

April 27, 2015
Francis Q. Hoang
Announcement, Commentary

Laicie Heeley Joins Stimson’s Budgeting For Foreign Affairs And Defense Program

The Stimson Center announced today the appointment of Laicie Heeley as a Fellow for the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense (BFAD)

April 27, 2015
Laicie Heeley
Commentary

All The President’s Drones: Obama’s Targeted-Killing Problem

When the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its “torture report” in December 2014, it reignited the battle over the George W.

April 27, 2015
Rachel Stohl
Commentary

India, Pakistan, and the nuclear humanitarian initiative: Let’s be real

The humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons is seen asone of the wild cards at the upcoming NPT Review Conference. In recent years, a

April 26, 2015
Faiqa Mahmood
Commentary

Is This What Shinzo Abe Will Say in Washington Next Week?

On April 22, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke at the Asian-African Conference commemorating the original “Bandung Conference.” In the speech, he discussed

April 24, 2015
Yuki Tatsumi
Commentary

Yemen: What’s At Stake For The United States?

On January 22, Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his cabinet resigned under pressure from Houthi rebels — a Shi’a-backed group from

April 23, 2015
Rachel Stohl
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