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North Korea

Analysis + Opinion

August 23, 2017

Should you be worried about North Korea?

Jim WalshAl Jazeera

To no one's surprise, I can't "save us", but I can give you a sense of where things stand, where they might be going, and a few things we might want to do, writes Jim Walsh in a recent opinion piece.

Debate: Tensions on Korean Peninsula

In the News

August 22, 2017

Tensions on Korean peninsula

PressTV-The Debate

Jim Walsh discussed North Korea's warning of deepening tensions on the Korean Peninsula following the recent joint military exercises by US and South Korea.

US and Afghanistan flags

Analysis + Opinion

August 18, 2017

It's time to make Afghanistan someone else's problem

Barry PosenThe Atlantic

Afghanistan...is a good place to create problems for America’s adversaries. And the best way to do that is to get out, says Barry Posen.

Robert E Lee statue

In the News

August 18, 2017

What Robert E Lee wrote to The Times about slavery in 1858

Jacey FortinNew York Times

One day in January, a few years before the Civil War, Robert E Lee wrote to The New York Times, seeking a correction, writes former CIS Neuffer fellow Jacey Fortin. Fortin now reports full-time for the The New York Times

Scientist

Analysis + Opinion

August 18, 2017

Revisit NIH biosafety guidelines

Kenneth OyeScience

The NIH recently marked the 40th anniversary of its Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules.The meeting was an inspiring start for charting future oversight of nonclinical applications.

North Korea military

Analysis + Opinion

August 10, 2017

North Korea, Trump, and strategic stability

Vipin Narang and Ankit PandaWar on the Rocks

Words matter, especially when nuclear weapons use is on the line. In a matter of 30 seconds on a Tuesday afternoon, Trump negotiated himself into a disastrous strategic corner.

 

US soldier

Analysis + Opinion

August 5, 2017

The US will keep losing wars until it decides what it stands for

Harvey SapolskyNational Interest

Despite the promises, the panels and the pronouncements, a grand strategy for the United States, on par with the Cold War’s containment and Germany’s unconditional surrender during World War II, remains elusive.

Analysis + Opinion

July 18, 2017

Danger at Dolam

M. Taylor FravelThe Indian Express

Current India-China standoff bears a resemblance to the dispute that sparked the 1962 war. But let’s not stretch the analogy.

Prime Minister Abe

Analysis + Opinion

July 14, 2017

Will Tokyo’s arms exports help or hurt US interests in Asia?

Eric Heginbotham and Richard Samuels The Cipher Brief

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s current political problems obscure the striking speed with which he successfully tackled thorny and long-standing security policy problems, including the lifting of the country’s arms export ban.

 

Joel Brenner

In the News

July 10, 2017

Former head of US counterintelligence on “US-Russian cybersecurity unit”

Mary Louise KellyWBUR Morning Edition

Joel Brenner, now at MIT, says President Trump's statement that he might partner with Putin on cyber issues is a reversal of decades of well-founded American suspicion of Russia.

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