What Will Happen to UNRWA Funding for Palestinian Refugees?
…removed the weapons. Another area of criticism focuses on the content of educational materials used in UNRWA schools, which Israel alleges foster anti-Israel sentiment. However, a comprehensive assessment in 2020…
Militarized Commons: How Territorial Competition is Weaponizing Fisheries and Destroying the South China Sea
…South China Sea.” Commodities: The seascape holds vast energy and fisheries resources.11Benjamin J. Sacks, “The Political Geography of the South China Sea Disputes,” RAND Corporation, (2022). https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA2000/PEA2021-1/RAND_PEA2021-1.pdf. Beneath it lie an estimated…
What’s in a Tripwire: The Post-Cold War Transformation of the US Military Presence in Korea
…the minds of ROK and U.S. policymakers both to help ensure stability on the Korean Peninsula and support U.S. strategic imperatives beyond it. The persistence and growth of the North…
The UN Needs to Embrace the F-Word
…Worse, the notion of orienting the UN system towards the future could become a point of contention between developed and developing countries, a code word that indicates wealthy countries do…
US Department of State Releases International Cyberspace and Digital Strategy
…of two years of research. We are pleased to see some cohesion between our findings and the contents of the U.S. Strategy—for example, evidence of a toolbox approach to cyber…
Nuclear Doctrine, Declaratory Policy, and Escalation Control
…and unambiguous, they were not perceived as such, due to the number of principal “actors” involved. Clearly, the principal signaller was Prime Minister Vajpayee. In addition, Defence Minister George Fernandes,…
Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
…Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. His mind was like a steel trap. He personified cold logic, equanimity, and mental toughness. I disagreed with almost everything he said about nuclear weapons,…
Alan D. Romberg quoted in The Hill on improved US-China relations
…stated goal of creating a “new type of major power relationship.” The challenge the two presidents face will be to give that broad concept specific content. The fact that the…