September 18, 2018
United StatesThe United States Air Force (USAF) turns 71 years-old today. On September 18, 1947, Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first secretary of the air force, officially founding a …
November 29, 2012
United StatesGregory D. Johnsen is a former Fulbright fellow in Yemen and currently a PhD candidate in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and Ameri…
November 1, 2016
United StatesGreg Hayes provides his perspective on trade, globalization, and the development of a competitive and educated workforce in an evolving global economy.
October 10, 2017
Puerto RicoA new report from the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), co-authored by Brad W. Setser and Gregory Makoff.
March 16, 2010
United KingdomThe provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA, is an outgrowth of an older group known as the Irish Republican Army, which fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole …
August 27, 2009
Terrorism and CounterterrorismAn overview of Peruvian terrorist groups, Shining Path and Tupac Amaru.
April 17, 2018
U.S. Foreign Policy“Centralization of power in the executive, politicization of the judiciary, attacks on independent media, the use of public office for private gain—the signs of democratic regression are well known…
November 5, 2008
IraqA profile of a militant Islamist Kurdish separatist movement seeking to transform Iraq into an Islamic state.
December 4, 2017
ChinaAbsent new funding and a strategic vision, the United States might lose the race for supremacy in artificial intelligence research to China.
November 19, 2014
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and DisarmamentThe world has entered a second nuclear age shaped by rising nuclear states and military technologies. Gregory Koblentz argues that the United States should work with the other nuclear-armed states to manage threats to nuclear stability in the near term and establish processes for multilateral arms control efforts over the longer term.