Institutionalizing Nuclear Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan
…the 2019 Pulwama-Balakot crisis and the 2022 accidental BrahMos missile launch underscore the critical role that NCBMs could play in diffusing tensions and preventing future crises. Against this backdrop, the establishment of a robust…
Preventing Forced Return in Lebanon and the Greater Levant
By Jesse Marks The Syrian refugee crisis has created enormous burdens for Syria’s neighbors — and none more so than Lebanon, which accounts for the highest refugee per capita in…
Safe Nuclear Weapons
…nuclear weapons safe so they do not detonate except under orders from a National Command Authority. If a single mushroom cloud appears at a time of crisis or warfare because…
The U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry and its Implications for Pakistan
…Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). 21 Tom O’Connor, “India and Pakistan Clash on Border As China Conflict Looms Heavy,” Newsweek, September 18,…
North Korean Threat Spirals Toward Disaster
…on Iraq, the United States cannot afford to ignore another brewing crisis with potentially even greater consequences. The Bush administration’s approach to North Korea is quickly moving from the inexplicable…
Syria: Options and Implications for Lebanon and the Region
…fatigue with the Lebanese crisis, new leaderships in the US and Europe, necessity over Iraq, the capacity of its allies to sustain pressure on the Lebanese government and sheer steadfastness…
Seventy Years Without an A-Bombing
…on one occasion to remain unused in the next.” And yet, this was the case during the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as during the Korean, Vietnam, and Kargil wars….
The Future of the U.S.-Moldova Partnership
Introduction Moldova is in the midst of a period of hard-fought transformation. Despite decades of struggle following the collapse of the Soviet Union, new leadership representing widely held ambitions for…