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Embracing Multipolarity
Modeling War on the Korean Peninsula
A Regime Change War in Iran?
Do Madman Tactics Work?
Gen Z, Internationalism, & Change in Foreign Policy
Can Trump Make a Deal with Iran?
UFOs, Aliens, & National Security
Why America Needs to Change Its Nuclear Weapons Posture
India’s Quest for Major Power Status
Strategic Empathy & the Roots of the Ukraine War
The Return of Bipolarity
Reconsidering US Strategy in Europe & Asia
Trump, Conquest, & the Laws of War
The AI Competition with China
Perverse Incentives in the Permanent War Economy
Negotiating Peace in Ukraine
The Fall of Assad & Syria's Uncertain Future
How Not to Fix U.S. Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy in the Second Trump Term
The Trouble with Tariffs and the Future of Trade
Status, Revisionism, & US-China Relations
Is Whataboutism Effective?
Why Can't America Retrench?
Not Another Axis of Evil
The Pentagon’s Budgetary Time Bomb
The Rising Costs of Overseas Military Bases
Security Dilemmas, Great Powers, & International Order
Should America Let Europe Defend Itself?
Ukraine, NATO, and the End of the War
Why Security Assistance Fails
Classical Realism, Purpose, and the Rise of China
The Trouble with US Support for Israel & Ukraine
Drones, Secrecy, and Endless War
Regional "Push Factors" in the Emigration Upsurge
Reevaluating the "Special Relationship" with Israel
The Economics of Great Power War & Peace
The Hard Choice of Retrenchment
The Will to Hegemony
Elite Politics & the Hawkish Bias in US Foreign Policy
Managing Instability in Europe, Asia, & the Middle East
Arms, Influence, and the Military Industrial Complex
The Middle East Is a Powder Keg. Washington Is Making It Worse
The Economic War on China Is Self-Defeating
"Credibility" Is Not What You Think It Is
The Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr
Israel, Gaza, and America’s Broken Middle East Policy
America Is Eroding the International Order
Human Psychology and Nuclear Brinkmanship
Middling Powers & U.S. Decline
Can the “Restraint Coalition” Endure?
Tripwires, Public Opinion, & War
The Perils of Being the World's Biggest Arms Trafficker
Social Science, Think Tanks, & National Security Policy
India, the Swing State?
The National Security Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Nobody Wins in Ukraine
Managing China, Avoiding War
Market Adjustment and Foreign Policy Failure
Honor, Deterrence, and Peace
The Politics of the China Threat in East Asia
Chinese vs American Diplomacy in the Middle East
Strategy, Restraint, and the Pursuit of Dominance
Quantifying US Militarism
After Ukraine, Does Europe Need the US Military?
Identity, Power, and the Struggle for Recognition
The Changing U.S.-Pakistan Relationship
Biden’s Foreign Policy Promises
Covert Action and International Law
Vacuum Fears & U.S. Foreign Policy
The Persistent Status Quo on North Korea
Nuclear Weapons, Strategic Stability, and Ukraine
Overpowered: Restraining Presidential War Authority
Stabilizing Great Power Rivalry
A Realist’s Guide to Russia’s War in Ukraine
How to Avoid a Zero-Sum U.S.-China Relationship
What We Get Wrong about Cyber Security
Afghanistan: One Year After US Withdrawal
Poking the Dragon and the Bear
Ukraine and the Discourse of War
Biden’s Incoherent Iran Policy
The Transatlantic Divide
Great Powers and Territorial Disputes
Prediction and Judgement: Artificial Intelligence & War
The Dangerous Contradictions in U.S.-Syria Policy
Intelligence, Politics, & National Security Policy
Enemy Images, Foreign & Domestic
National Security and the Image of Public Harmony
Neutrality for Ukraine?
The End of the Post-Cold War Era?
Russia, Ukraine, and European Security
Too Many Secrets: How to Fix Overclassification
Public Choice and U.S. Grand Strategy
How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis
Quantum Mind and Social Science
Competing for Status?
Nuclear Competition and MAD
The Erosion of Civil-Military Relations
Spending Smarter: How to Fix the U.S. Military Budget
Oil & Great Power Politics
Bad Friends: America’s Middle East Allies