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August 27, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy
Five Movies Worth Watching About Foreign-Policy Conspiracies

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about conspiracies in the halls of power. 

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: The Manchurian Candidate (a sketch of a man, a gun, and a queen of hearts card); JFK (a man looks out from a red, white, and blue design); Kill the Messenger (a man with the U.S. Capitol Building reflected in his sunglasses).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

August 20, 2021

Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war. 

Three movie posters: Platoon (a helmet lies upside down beneath a line of soldiers); The Thin Red Line (a close up of three soldiers’ faces in grass); 1917 (two soldiers run into a sunrise).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

December 19, 2012

United States
Guest Post: The United States Should Maintain a Leadership Role in International Maritime Law

Captain Peter Troedsson is military fellow, U.S. Coast Guard, at the Council on Foreign Relations. A recent opinion piece in the Washington Times—“No Time to Get LOST,” by Mr. Ed Feulner—was represe…

Naval carrier
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

October 31, 2017

Immigration and Migration
CBP and Discretion: Why Rosa Maria Hernandez Should Never Have Been Arrested

     

CBP Border Patrol Agent
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

September 20, 2012

Will MOOCs Revolutionize Higher Education?

The hot new buzzword in university circles these days is MOOCs—massive open online courses. They may be the future of higher education. Or maybe not. MOOCs are just what their full names imply: onli…

Students outside of Widener Library at Harvard University, one of several universities now offering massive open online courses. (Brian Snyder/ courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge