In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of ...

The relentless advance of ISIS in 2014/2015 has brought back to centre stage a series of questions about the nature, and even viability, of the Iraqi state. Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 ...

At the end of November 2023 in London, I heard the question—"Why is Ukraine not searching for peace?”—asked by a taxi driver ...

Stanford University, pursuing a B.A. in International Relations with minors in Biology and Human Rights. Based in Southern California, she is a member of the Cambodian Student Association, volunteers ...

The global norm against chemical weapons, bolstered by international disarmament initiatives and the Chemical Weapons ...

Bernardo Basilici Menini, 35 years old, is an Italian journalist and communications expert living in Copenhagen. For years, he worked as a political journalist for the Italian newspaper La Stampa. He ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...