2018-01-30 By Danny Lam Donald J. Trump was the first candidate to become president of the United States without prior experience as a military leader, a politician or ever having held a senior government post. As he delivers his State of the Union address this week, the president has the…
2018-01-26 By Richard Weitz Remarkable changes are occurring in the heart of Eurasia—specifically in Uzbekistan. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who became president a year ago, after serving as prime minister with previous President Islam Karimov for more than a dozen years, has launched a new foreign policy course. While still prioritizing the…
2018-01-11 By Harald Malmgren The election of Donald Trump is still reverberating throughout the American political system. Rather than being an aberration which the professional political class might never wish to see repeated, President Trump’s election was a bold, powerful shock to the long-prevailing, deeply entrenched political system in Congress,…
2018-01-07 By Danny Lam Necessity and proportionality are central concepts behind legitimate use of force in international law from the Anglo-European tradition. The simplicity of the concepts belie the moral quagmire when applied to actual cases such as the use of nuclear weapons on Japan in what became the final…
2017-12-30 By Robbin Laird My wife is French and I have spent a good deal of my professional life dealing with European security and defense issues. I have lived through several phases almost ages of European-American relations and have travelled widely in Europe, and the Soviet Union over the past…
On December 19, 2017, the United States and Canada said that nations from around the world would convene January 16 to show solidarity against North Korea's nuclear program. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, meeting in Ottawa, said the meeting would take place in…
2017-12-15 By Richard Weitz One problem with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 (H.R. 2810) signed by President Trump on Tuesday is that the costs of defending foreign countries from missile threats is disproportionately paid for by American tax payers. To sustain funding for the U.S.…
2017-12-18 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We have a fundamental respect for the Poles and their history. No people have learned more about the threats to national survival generated by European insecurities and the Russians than the Poles. We each have a reach into Poland and its heritage but by…
