Thailand’s Crisis: A Longer View
…last major violent political upheaval, precisely 18 years earlier. That eruption resulted when public discontent with a military-dominated parliament prompted 200,000 overwhelmingly peaceful protesters to march on the seat of…
Afghanistan Under the Taliban: Findings on the Current Situation
…ministry, intelligence agency, and other official buildings. It was colloquially known as Chor-pur (“sher” means lion, and “chor” means thief), a reference to the corruption that had gotten its inhabitants…
Create a Channel for a U.S.-China Dialogue on South Asia
…officials, either annually or biannually, dedicated to preventing a potential crisis and facilitating crisis management on the subcontinent. The contents of the dialogue might include: Changes to the nuclear stockpile,…
Testing Assumptions About US Foreign Policy in 2026
…Rawlins, who argued that the administration would find it difficult to sustain a lengthy trade war with China in the face of public discontent and cost-of-living concerns, accurately predicted many…
Foreign Policy Priorities in the September 2024 Presidential Debate
…to finalize the negotiations, a scuttled episode that would have seen the Taliban welcomed to one of U.S. diplomacy’s most revered sites just days before the anniversary of 9/11. In…
Soviet Collapse and Nuclear Dangers: Harvard and the Nunn-Lugar Program
…Ashton B. Carter, “Origins of the Nunn-Lugar Program,” Paper for the Presidential Conference on William Jefferson Clinton, Hofstra University, November 10-12, 2005, available at https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/hofstra_presidential_conference_presentation_november2005.pdf; Sam Nunn and Richard G….
Trump’s 2026 State of the Union in Focus
…before the U.S. raid. North Korean state media’s calibrated coverage of the June 2025 U.S. bombings of Iranian nuclear sites and the ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran, as well as the January 2026…
2025 in Focus
…Julia Gledhill’s argument for nationalizing defense industry segments as a means of improving accountability and efficiency. Collectively, these efforts pushed national security debates toward more innovative and evidence-based policy solutions….