Recent debate has highlighted questions surrounding the US approach to targeted strikes as a legitimate method of warfare. Amos Guiora argues that the real issue is that US drone policy does not have a concise legal framework for how targets are acquired a ...
Summary by Richard C. Longworth Acting Treasury Secretary Neal S. Wolin, robustly seconded by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, told The Chicago Council Monday that the sequestration battle in Washington “makes no sense” and could “throw sand in the gears” of the econo ...
Summary by Richard C. Longworth An unprecedented galaxy of global challenges is transforming the world and we aren‘t controlling any of them, former Vice President Al Gore told audience at a sold-out Chicago Council program Friday evening. “Never have so ...
Summary by Richard C. Longworth The second Obama administration faces a Middle East in turmoil – civil wars, revolutions, religious fissures, incoherent governments, nuclear threats, and societal breakdown – unprecedented in recent history, a panel of Was ...
Summary by Richard C. Longworth “I think,” Paul Krugman told The Chicago Council, “that people like me are slowly winning the argument.” What he meant, Krugman said, is that public policy on the economy is shifting from an emphasis on the deficit and aust ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth The United States has played a unique role since World War II in preventing wars between the great powers and in promoting both democracy and global prosperity, foreign policy scholar Robert Kagan told a Chicago Counc ...
The most solemn obligation of any president is to safeguard the nation's security. But the president cannot do this alone. He needs help. In the past half century, presidents have relied on their national security advisers to provide that help. Who a ...
The balance between available resources and national security priorities has never been more delicate. As political and military leadership grapple with difficult fiscal choices, it is clear that America’s armed forces will be smaller and leaner, while the ...
While the West struggles, China's economy continues to grow. In her new book, Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do, Napoleoni charts the ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the West’s misconception of China and i ...
Resource scarcity has become a front-and-center issue for national security and defense thinkers. These challenges, from water deficiency to the lack of reliable electricity, were once primarily managed by development professionals, humanitarian organizati ...
