Aegis Ashore Cancellation – Impulsive Blunder or Strategic Opportunity?
…to strike targets an astounding 600 miles away. This would give the JSDF the ability to strike missile sites inside of North Korea, for one, provided an attack on Japanese…
Assessing Pakistan’s Nuclear Security Upgrades after ratification of the 2005 CPPNM Amendment
…used in IAEA Nuclear Security Guidance,” August 2020, accessed October 6, 2021, https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/21/06/nuclear_security_glossary_august_2020.pdf. On the advice of the Government of Pakistan, the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) initiated the Nuclear Security Action…
CORVI Risk Assessment: Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis
…while seafood imports totaled $4.2 million that same year.6Note: UN Comtrade. “Saint Kitts and Nevis trade in fish, crustaceans, molluscs, and aquatic invertebrates.” https://dit-trade-vis.azurewebsites.net/?reporter=659&type=C&commodity=03&year=2017&flow=2 However, the fisheries sector is important…
Should Food Security be a National Security Issue?
…Goodman, “National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change,” Center for Naval Analysis: Military Advisory Board, May 2014, accessed April 1, 2015,https://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/MAB_2014.pdf. John D. Banusieqicz, “Hagel to Address ‘Threat…
Verifying Peace, Promoting Protection: The Experience of Colombia’s UN Verification Mission
…unarmed international observers with military and police backgrounds. Additionally, at the level of the state, fragmented government approaches to implementing human security-related policies, as well as an absence of meaningful…
State Department Reform Under the Second Trump Administration
…consider content validity, convergent/discriminant validity, and nomological validity. Content validity means that a measure includes all relevant elements of a concept and excludes irrelevant elements. Convergent/discriminant validity means a measure…
The ATT at 10
…PrepComs to start hammering out substantive positions on content, both bilaterally and in larger groupings. Civil society and industry each began lobbying States in earnest trying to influence this content,…
Policy Journals and National Security
…nations; so that the people themselves will have the means to test misinformation and appeals to prejudice and passion based upon error.3Elihu Root, “A Requisite for Popular Diplomacy,” Foreign Affairs…