Faculty Publications

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

Biden's desire to create "a foreign policy for the middle class" is a laudable notion, but it may be at odds with history. The need for compromise and support of allies may not always coincide with the perceived needs of America's middle class, which has frequently misunderstood the work of diplomats and been suspicious of the demands of global issues.

The declaration of U.S. troop withdrawal brings a disappointing conclusion to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and raises questions about its role as a reliable security partner.

The USS John Paul Jones carried out a freedom of navigation operation off the coast of India on April 7. The Indian government protested the move, saying that it violated India’s interpretation of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Biden announcing troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by Sept. 11th.

Late last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that his country would reach “carbon neutrality” by 2060, meaning that by that time, it would remove every year from the atmosphere as much carbon dioxide as it emitted. China is currently the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, responsible for nearly 30 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

After the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, terms like extremism and terrorism, which had largely been reserved for dangerous faraway places, are now part of the American political lexicon. But the US cannot afford to treat domestic extremism the way it dealt with (or tried to deal with) extremism overseas.

Europe will always remain an important part of the world for U.S. foreign policy, but its centrality to American national and economic security is drawing to a close. How this rebalancing will happen during the 2020s will become the most critical geopolitical challenge facing the U.S. national security establishment.

As global attention and resources have shifted away from issues of extremism, conditions in many parts of the world are ripe for a resurgence of extremist violence. From former theaters of robust U.S. military engagement like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria to secularist strongholds such as France and Turkey, incentives and opportunities for extremist violence are rising.

Too often, narratives about men’s engagement in gender diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives focus nearly exclusively on the benefits for women.

In keeping with the assessments made by Derek Reveron and Nikolas Gvosdev in their original Orbis piece, how significantly different is this interim guidance—and does it validate their conclusion that U.S. national strategy exhibits an understated but very real degree of continuity?

The U.S. Navy handicaps itself in great-power competition. “Though we are not exchanging fire with our competitors,” according to the chief of naval operations, “we are battling for influence and positional advantage.”

In the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration, a group of outgoing political appointees unexpectedly pushed through the acting secretary of defense to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a hotly disputed plan to split the U.S. Cyber Command from the National Security Agency (NSA). This idea is a contentious and recurring sparring point, emerging in greater public display with the second Obama term.

How will U.S. action towards Moscow affect two more critical relationships for Washington: the ones with Berlin and Beijing?