In the two years since the last summit in Lisbon, NATO has continued its operation in Afghanistan, conducted a United Nations-sanctioned mission in Libya, reduced the force size of NATO troops in the Balkans, and started to implement a missile defense syst ...
The Western world of the last decade has been confronted with a sequence of unforeseen economic, military, and political challenges. In the midst of this turmoil, the emerging powers of the East have been the biggest beneficiaries from a global power persp ...
As human transactions increasingly shift to the virtual world, the potential for a cyber-attack to wreak havoc on a scale historically caused by terrorism or military conflict in the physical world becomes an ever more plausible scenario. Cybersecurity was ...
Today, forty-two million people around the world have fled from armed conflict and are searching for safety. The evening news often reminds us of the tent cities of Haiti or a refugee camp in Kenya, but pays little attention to the millions who struggle wi ...
Can the worlds of ideas and action be united? Many scholars believe that policymakers are more interested in processes and outcomes than in causality. At the same time, many policymakers believe that scholars focus on abstract and self-referential debates ...
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/secretary-robert-gates-duty-service-and-... Richard C. Longworth January 28, 2014 Chicago Council Event SummaryPolicy & Politics Richard C. Longworth ...
As the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria graphically illustrate, human suffering inflicted whether by governments, armies, or militias, is commonplace today. Despite the ratification of countless treaties and increased media focus, the existing body of ...
According to a June 2014 Gallup survey, public confidence in Congress is at an all-time low, while the Presidency fares only slightly better. But the perception that our executive and legislative branches are underperforming is a relatively new phenomenon. ...
Technological advances in the field of computing have provided countless benefits to society, but today’s interconnected world has an ominous flip-side. From ubiquitous mobile devices that track our activities and location, to internet-connected vehicles, ...
In 2010 a sophisticated computer “worm” named Stuxnet attempted to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. According to Kim Zetter, the US-Israeli Stuxnet virus was the world’s first digital weapon and the opening salvo in a new cyber war in which nations, terror ...
