North Korea’s nuclear program is a regional issue. It requires a regional response.
Nukes and North Korea: A New Direction?
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America’s Multiple Infections
Too many Americans belong to the cult of selfish individualism. In the COVID era, this has become a death cult.
Drifting Away from Peace
With the Cold War ending in the early 1990s, some Western scholars predicted a more peaceful world with liberal democracy the only game in town. The findings of the Global Peace Index suggest otherwise. The twelfth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) reports that...
Syria as Metaphor
The war in Syria is a nightmare. It’s a nightmare for all the civilians who suffer from constant aerial bombardment, who are trapped without food and medical assistance inside crumbling cities, who experience the retribution of either the Islamic State or the regime...
We May Be at a Greater Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Than During the Cold War
"Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War," warns William Perry, "and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger." A former U.S. defense secretary from 1994 to 1997, Perry has been an inside player in...
The Odds Are Stacked Against Mahmoud Abbas
Shortly before Mahmoud Abbas took to the UN podium on September 30 — in his first address to the General Assembly as the representative of the “non-member state” of Palestine — his office hinted that the Palestinian Authority leader would drop a “bombshell.” When the...
Why the World Is Becoming the Un-Sweden
Imagine an alternative universe in which the two major Cold War superpowers evolved into the United Soviet Socialist States. The conjoined entity, linked perhaps by a new Bering Straits land bridge, combines the optimal features of capitalism and collectivism. From...
Like Iran, South Africa Resists U.S. Nuclear Oversight
At the Center of Public Integrity on nuclear materials, Douglas Birch has written a two-part series on nuclear security in South Africa. In the first, titled “South Africa rebuffs repeated U.S. demands that it relinquish its nuclear explosives,” co-authored with R....
NATO: Rebellion in the Ranks?
Vladimir Putin, the wily strategist of Russian revanchism, is well on his way to reconstructing the Warsaw Pact. That, at least, is what the pundits of The Washington Post are making it out to seem. Last week, Jackson Diehl penned a column on how Putin has driven a...
A Budding Alliance: Vietnam and the Philippines Confront China
Last year, the Philippines brought a complaint against China’s aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea to the United Nations Arbitral Tribunal. The Chinese “were really unprepared for that and were really embarrassed by it,” one of Vietnam’s top experts on...