Gian Gentile’s article on COIN ignores literature that weigh stability and combat operations equally. The key failure of COIN has been not understanding how to integrate the multiple levels required.
Based on different individual interests, politics, and history, the Nuremberg Trial cannot be simply seen as a beautiful idea but rather a mixture of ugly facts and practicalities.
Realism is not dead, but it is as problematic to treat the theory as IR’s “core set of ideas” as it is a fallacy to treat constructivism as a recognizable, distinct, and competing theory.
Drones have evolved within the strategic framework of the U.S. defense community, and are now poised to play a focal role in the future of American power.
Mexican drug cartels have taken on many functions of the state, and should thus be analysed as political entities. Engaging with them in a political manner should help reduce violence.
The case of Wen Ho Lee supports Frederick L. Wettering’s claim that US counter-intelligence is alive, but not well.
The European Union faces important energy security challenges and needs a comprehensive external energy policy which includes not only market-based but also geopolitical elements.
Having a negative view of human nature, emphasizing the autonomy of politics, and seeing morality as a useful image for the politician, Machiavelli is a forerunner of political realism.
Scholarship that disregards the presence of women as actors and stakeholders in civil conflict creates an incomplete understanding of how conflicts are conducted and settled, who fights, and why.
Civilian crisis management and reconstruction is where the EU should focus its collective efforts, leaving joint military interventions to NATO.
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