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...
Arms production and defense companies are back in the public spotlight. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions have boosted governments’ demand for arms and prompt...
https://issforum.org/roundtables/h-diplo-rjissf-roundtable-15-37-on-spear-the-business-of-armaments
Kenji Ito and Maria Rentetzi make a clear and ambitious claim in the introduction to their special issue of History and Technology: “Knowledge production in science and technology is fundamenta...
Based on fieldwork primarily conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic by Raffaello Pantucci and the late Alexandros Petersen, this carefully written book is impressive. It calls for greater attenti...
https://issforum.org/reviews/h-diplo-rjissf-review-essay-96-wang-on-pantucci-and-petersen-sinostan