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August 20, 2021

Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war. 

Three movie posters: Platoon (a helmet lies upside down beneath a line of soldiers); The Thin Red Line (a close up of three soldiers’ faces in grass); 1917 (two soldiers run into a sunrise).

December 18, 2014

Cybersecurity
With North Korea, Attribution May Be The Easy Part

After weeks of speculation about who was responsible for the hacking of Sony, U.S officials are telling the press that North Korea was "centrally involved." Why the government now feels confident in…

Interview DPRK North Korea CFR Net Politics Cyber

March 7, 2014

Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Cyberattacks, Asia Pivot, and the U.S. Military and Human Rights

Zachary Fryer-Biggs, “DoD Official: Asia Pivot ‘Can’t Happen’ Due to Budget Processes,” Defense News, March 4, 2014. “Right now, the pivot is being looked at again, because candidly it can’t happen,…

Russia in Crimea March 1

June 15, 2011

Fossil Fuels
Oil Markets and the Stanley Cup

Over at The Water’s Edge, my friend and colleague Jim Lindsay explains what the Stanley Cup finals tell us about globalization. This blog’s job is to provide its readers with essential insights into …

May 13, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Will We Come to Regret the Raid on Abbottabad?

A policeman walks in front of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. (Faisal Mahmood/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Actions, even virtuous ones, have consequences. Sometimes those consequences a…

A policeman walks in front of the compound where al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad.