If we are honest about our efforts to prevent serious conflict, our track record is weak, to say the least. We fail to prepare for strategic discontinuities. We embrace deals that rest on sand. We often only seriously begin to address threats to our country’s population and material wealth when we no longer have the 
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America’s Chamberlain? Obama and the Challenge of American Power
By: David Law | Thursday, November 13th, 2014The 2014 NATO Summit: President Putin’s Take
By: David Law | Friday, September 12th, 2014I have just reread the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit Declaration issued in Cardiff, Wales. I have been trying to put myself in President Putin’s place as I have proceeded. How would he, directly or through his advisors, react to this Declaration? I am just guessing but here we go.
First we take Crimea, then we take Brighton Beach (and retake Alaska)?*
By: David Law | Thursday, May 1st, 2014Vladimir Putin’s ideology has three basic tenets. The first is that Russia has a right and a responsibility to protect Russian speakers outside the country, no matter what. The second is that Russia’s natural borders have been reduced by questionable diplomatic and political deals that must be reversed. The third is that Russia, like the
Securing Borders Against Nuclear and Radiological Materials
By: Anni-Claudine Buelles | Monday, December 9th, 2013After the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited “the third largest nuclear weapon stockpile” after Russia and the United States. Ukraine became nuclear-weapon-free in 1996, after committing to fully disarm in 1994. Yet, the trafficking and smuggling of harmful materials across Ukraine’s border remains a serious security risk requiring immediate attention.
DCAF releases “Almanac on Security Sector Governance In Ukraine”
By: Guy Halpern | Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010The Almanac on Security Sector Governance in Ukraine 2010 has recently been published by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). The Almanac consists of contributions from leading civilian experts on security sector governance in Ukraine, from a range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs), and was created
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