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AUG 3, 2017 Podcast

Michele Wucker on when the Gray Rhino Hits Asia

Michele Wucker describes a gray rhino as the "love child of the black swan and the elephant in the room." In other words, "it's a ...

AUG 2, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

“Victory” In Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of “Winning”

Mosul illustrates how victory at all costs is no victory at all, and why contemporary just war thinkers need to re-conceptualize the idea of victory.

UN Protection of Civilians site in Wau, South Sudan. April 2017. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/unmissmultimedia/33774399210">UNMISS</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

AUG 2, 2017 Podcast

Amnesty International's Sarah Jackson on the Crisis in South Sudan

Since South Sudan's civil war broke out in late 2013, soldiers on both sides have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence on a ...

Shibuya District, Tokyo. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya#/media/File:Shibuya_District_at_Night_2015-04_(17806976882).jpg">IQRemix (CC)</a>

AUG 1, 2017 Podcast

George Friedman: The End of the International Order and the Future of Asia

Tired of conventional wisdom? Check out geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. The period that began at the end of World War II was a freak, he ...

Shanghai, June 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/46362496092">Trey Ratcliff</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JUL 27, 2017 Podcast

Meredith Sumpter: The "G-Zero" World Hits Asia

"First and foremost, a G-zero is a world in which no one country has dominant power or can influence the international system of governance," explains ...

JUL 26, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

"Homo Economicus" and the Sanctions Tax

Do sanctions actually work, or do citizens in target countries simply factor the "sanctions tax" into their broader calculations of economic well-being?

JUL 25, 2017 Podcast

General Donald Bolduc on the U.S. War in Afghanistan

In this inspiring interview, Brig. Gen. Bolduc discusses his time in Afghanistan and his assessment of the situation there as well as in Africa, where ...

JUL 24, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

The Costs of Solar Geoengineering

While Harvard’s research program could help us to better understand solar geoengineering, they should be careful not to oversell their program at the cost ...

JUL 21, 2017 Podcast

Alexander Klimburg on "The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace"

In the West we view cyber threats as largely a technical issue, while in Russia and China they see it in terms of propaganda, information ...

JUL 20, 2017 Podcast

Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"

Thucydides's Trap is the dangerous dynamic that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, explains Harvard's Graham Allison. So is war ...