Faculty Publications

Over the past several years, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company (PMC), has become an increasingly important instrument in Russia’s foreign policy toolkit, especially in Africa where Moscow has sought to expand its influence and challenge the West.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we did not see evidence of (legally-defined) genocide. But now, as of June 1st, 2022, we are seeing evidence of genocidal acts by Russia against Ukrainian civilians, especially children, in the form of forced deportations from Ukraine into Russia and forced integration into Russian society.

There are currently two main frameworks regarding gender equality and women’s participation in international policy and
conflict resolution: the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) framework, codified in the landmark United Nations Security
Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 in 2000, and the feminist foreign policy framework (FFP) that became prominent in
2014 when Sweden became the first government to formally adopt a feminist foreign policy.

During the 2016 US presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump suggested the United States could benefit from a more unpredictable foreign policy. The assassination of Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani by US forces in 2020 during the Trump administration may be the best recent example of this doctrine in action. Other American presidents, including John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, have applied it in different ways.

There is more than one way to think about modern U.S.–China relations, but one would never know it from the historical analogy most commonly applied: the Anglo-German relationship from the early 20th century.

These days people are asking if what Russia is doing in Ukraine constitutes "genocide," and this article responds to that question.

Criminal behavior is expanding to include interdisciplinary domains, and so must accountability for such crimes. We are witnessing activism to bring perpetrators of environmental crimes to justice all the way to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This activism has named the crime of environmental offenses.

In this commentary for the Maritime Awareness Project, Terence Roehrig (U.S. Naval War College) argues that participation in Quad activities, such as a future maritime working group that addresses disaster relief and reducing illegal fishing, can help strengthen South Korea’s role in improving maritime security.

These strategies will then provide greater detail for how the U.S. military, in particular, is expected to respond to these challenges and will guide the military services in developing their concepts and in outlining the capabilities they need. In turn, that should inform budget requests and the allocation of resources.

Through an analysis of China’s and Taiwan’s respective South China Sea claims, I show that China is turning away from a millennia-old landward conception of itself to focus on the maritime environment, and that Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party chooses to embrace territorial claims that originate with its Kuomintang of China rival and that date to before the KMT even ruled Taiwan to construct a new maritime identity for the island.

Before the US Congress, Zelensky pressed again for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone. This article explored the reasons to have reservations about this proposal. There is a great deal of opportunity for tactical error or other miscalculation to lead to unwanted escalation.

Can an increasingly ossified national security system and dysfunctional domestic politics allow the United States to evolve its position and policies to cope with a changing international order?

Top Russian Expert at Naval War College is Pessimistic on Ukraine and Russia in Long-Term.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zalenskyy says Europe has enough strength to stop Russia aggression. But with war in their front yard what are European leaders willing to do? Today, On Point: How does the West need to respond to walk back from the nuclear line?