Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Offensive, Iran’s “Proxy” Strategy, and the Middle East’s New “Cold War”
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Riyadh’s war in Yemen marks a dramatic escalation in its efforts to roll back Iran’s rising influence in the Middle East. Saudi...
The World of States
By John L. Campbell and John A. Hall
In this article, adapted from their book The World of States John Campbell and John Hall argue...
The Delusions of Counterinsurgency
By David Martin Jones and Michael L.R. Smith
The theory and practice of counterinsurgency, ‘COIN’, preoccupied Western military thinking after 9/11. In the Political Impossibility...
Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West
By Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson discusses his latest book: Ukraine Crisis: What it means for the West. He contends that the book is actually about...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding.
Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
360 Degrees of Leadership
Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the lines dividing business, politics, security, trade and finance are becoming ever more blurred....
America’s Never-Ending War in the Middle East
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
While President Obama continues – at least for now – to resist redeploying large numbers of U.S. soldiers...
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
