Faculty Publications

Ryan L. Hill, "Thinking Like a Round Table Leader: How Mental Complexity Enables Leaders to Succeed in a Complex Environment"

What are the of economic, demographic, and political forces driving China through this decade? What direction is her growth heading and where will she find herself at the end of the decade? Are the forces in play likely to move her towards a more peaceful or a more militaristic stance? Using the recent article he co-authored with Gabriel Collins in Foreign Policy as a starting point, returning will be Andrew S. Erickson.

China’s power is peaking; so is the political position of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) domestic strength. In the long term, China’s likely decline after this peak is a good thing. But right now, it creates a decade of danger from a system that increasingly realizes it only has a short time to fulfill some of its most critical, long-held goals.

9/11 and Afghanistan: A 20 Year Retrospective was a Facebook Live virtual event for the Pell Center

The AUKUS deal and the Franco-Greek pact point to what is likely to be the defining characteristic of the alliance in the mid-2020s, not a mighty coalition of thirty states but a toolbox.

The Taliban have not kept their word about women's rights. There is no reason for the USA to trust anything the Taliban say.

Erik Sand, assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College, discusses the significance of the technology sharing piece of the trilateral agreement between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

This was a lecture given to the Operational Law Training group on September 25, 2021. Aligning our foreign policies with our values and principles is very important, and one way to do so is to adopt R2P as an enduring cause.

Because AUKUS focuses on technology sharing, it is different than a traditional arms sale, and this difference has two key implications. First, the deal is a stronger signal of the participants’ long-term concern about China’s rise. Second, and conversely, it will be more difficult to implement the deal in a way that lives up to its claims.

Ten-years after the al-Awlaki targeted killing, Christopher Faulkner and Jeffrey Rogg revisit the constitutional questions of the strike in addition to lingering questions on the efficacy and precedents of US drone warfare.

This was part of a Zoom roundtable talk for the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers, Sept. 17, 2021.

For nearly as long as human have engaged in organized violence, there have been attempts to fashion normative architectures to constrain and limit it.

Freed from the stalemate that resulted from opposing bipolar superpowers wielding off-setting veto power in the United Nations Security Council, the enforcement regime envisioned by the drafters of the UN Charter in 1945 is slowly becoming a reality.

Among the major western military powers, the United States is distinguished by non-participation in various core legal regimes governing armed conflict.