U.S. Naval Institute (USNI), Jack C. Taylor Conference Center, Annapolis, Maryland The conference aims to capture lessons learned, including positive and negative examples, in the conduct of irregular ...

Debates about national scientific and technological power tend to center on which state first generates new-to-the-world breakthroughs (innovation capacity).

In October 2022, the Biden administration introduced export controls to limit China’s access to advanced US semiconductors ...

Catherine Tan is a former research intern for the Asia Program and a rising junior at Colby College studying Anthropology and ...

There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onward, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were ...

Although “democracy promotion” has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the ...

FPRI President Aaron Stein sits down with Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. Their dialogue centers around Ukrainian foreign policy and ...

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept. Yet, despite its popularity, it is not well understood and it has many definitions, some of which are ...

Moscow’s reaction to this unprecedented development has been and remains of dual nature. On one hand, following a ...