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December 7, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Iran, Robot Soldiers, and Pentagon Propaganda

Jessica Donati and Daniel Fineren, “Exclusive: Iran Shipping Signals Conceal Syria Ship Movements,” Reuters, December 6, 2012. Large vessels must transmit their identity and location to other ships …

Iran Strait of Hormuz

December 30, 2011

Politics and Government
Friday File: Farewell to Iowa

The U.S. and Iowa state flags fly at a rally for Mitt Romney in West Des Moines on December 30, 2011. (Brian Snyder/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. As the Roy Schneider character says at the start…

The U.S. and Iowa state flags fly at a rally with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in West Des Moines, Iowa December 30, 2011, ahead of the Iowa Caucus on January 3, 2012. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

November 19, 2008

Elections and Voting
Foreign Affairs: Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration

A year ago, Senator Barack Obama first described how he would confront the foreign policy challenges he would inherit if elected president in "Renewing American Leadership." On January 20, he will t…

February 27, 2012

United States
What Else We Don’t Know About Drones

In 1982, on a tour of the Middle East to monitor the deployment of U.S. Marines to Beirut, Lebanon, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger received a security briefing from his Israeli counterpart, A…

Weinberger and Sharon inspect drone

April 7, 2015

Conflict Prevention
Guest Post: Stuck Between Maduro and a Hard Place

Brian Garrett-Glaser is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Venezuela is experiencing a protracted political and economic crisis that is likely to wors…

Venezuela Maduro edited