SEP 24, 2018 • Article
The Ethics of the "Doorstep"
The "doorstep test" requires policymakers to be able to articulate how, and to what degree, something happening in the world connects to the day-to-day experience, ...
SEP 12, 2018 • Article
Advising the Next Administration: Finding a New Foreign Policy Approach
The Center for American Progress has released a report laying out a foreign policy approach that the next administration might consider adopting. What are some "...
SEP 12, 2018 • Article
Unsafe Harbor: Shrinking Space of Free Expression in Hong Kong
"Since the transfer of sovereignty in 1997, the Communist leadership in Beijing—and the Hong Kong government acting at its behest—has made a concerted effort ...
AUG 29, 2018 • Article
Information Warfare: the Communist Party of China’s Influence Operations in the United States and Japan
This report examines the Communist Party of China's political influence operations in the United States and Japan. It summarizes these operations, paying special attention to ...
AUG 16, 2018 • Article
Inexorable Changes in U.S. Foreign Policy?
Is Trump's presidency a brief aberration after which things will return to normal? That's unlikely, argues Nikolas Gvosdev. In addition to disruptions that have already ...
AUG 14, 2018 • Article
The Populist Appeal of American Decline
"Is it possible that, in many circles, the decline of American hegemony is something voters are implicitly cheering?" asks Daniel Graeber of Grand Valley State ...
AUG 13, 2018 • Article
Ethics, Russia, and Syria
How can Moscow can support a dictator who has used chemical weapons in his desperate attempts to retain power at all costs? And what does ...
AUG 7, 2018 • Article
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Chemical Weapons
"Chemical weapons have been used in almost every decade since their advent just over a century ago. They are not a specter, like nuclear weapons. ...