August 9, 2017

The Kirkpatrick Doctrine in Syria

The Assad regime's chemical weapons attack on its own citizens on April 4, followed by the Trump administration's resolute military response a few days later, should prompt a reevaluation of the direction of our foreign policy during the prec...

September 18, 2015

A More Dangerous Place: the Kagan-Slaughter Debate

Has Obama made the world a more dangerous place? That question was the subject of an organized debate one evening in late 2014, and is also the title of a new book of the same name edited by Rudyard Griffiths, who has transcribed and edited the debat...

December 19, 2013

Geopolitical Winds Shifting in the Levant

Empirical reality seems to have little if anything meaningful to do American strategy in the Levant today. And that is a problem, because there is a causal relation between what happens in the Levant and international economic security. A new state ...

January 2, 2011

Why We Need a New Foreign Policy in Lebanon

For the sixth fiscal year in a row, the White House has requested that Congress appropriate millions of dollars in military financing to Lebanon.  The appropriation would be used to help execute the same policy as the previous six years' worth o...

August 15, 2010

Lebanon Positioned to Take a Beating

The gods of geopolitics have once again forsaken Lebanon. Weak government infrastructure and a weaker military have, in recent years, made Lebanon the stomping grounds of despotic powers. Their goal is to undermine accountable and moderate state inst...