India’s nuclear program has been a source of fascination for historians and political scientists for decades. Perhaps more than any other case, there are deep disagreements over what motivated ...
https://issforum.org/roundtables/h-diplo-rjissf-roundtable-15-40-on-sarkar-plougshares-and-swords
While cooperation between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) and Iran over the past three decades in developing ballistic missiles and possibly in sharing nuclear-...
On 7 October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel in an unprecedented and unexpected manner. The attack, which included taking 240 hostages, killing more than 1,100 citizens, and engaging in “widespread...
https://issforum.org/commentary/h-diplo-rjissf-commentary-ii-5-on-the-israel-hamas-war
In 2022, the Biden Administration enacted two major policies at the intersection of emerging technology and political economy. First, in August 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Creating Helpf...
Matthew Connelly’s The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets explores what it means for Americans to live in a society whose governing institutions are inc...
I am honored to provide this brief introduction to the roundtable discussion on Adam Lerner’s award-winning book. As Lerner notes in his response, I endorsed it with a highly favourable blurb. ...
https://issforum.org/roundtables/h-diplo-rjissf-roundtable-15-38-on-lerner-from-the-ashes-of-history
Seventy years ago this past July an armistice agreement ended fighting in the Korean War. This brutal conflict left both the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the north and the Re...
The news alerts declaring the death of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger flashed across my iPhone in a feverish pitch matching my flu-induced fever. I felt utterly speechless—it did ...
The international security studies literature contains many thorough discussions of terrorists’ potential to acquire radiological “dirty bombs,” but it has mostly ignored the potential of s...
https://issforum.org/reviews/h-diplo-rjissf-review-essay-95-hymans-on-potter-et-al-death-dust
A politico-legal institution and social condition, exile has roots in the two traditions molding Western civilization, the biblical and the classical. Yet, exile of political parties, i.e., of gr...