Commentary
by Andrew Parasiliti
Nuclear Options
by Morton H. Halperin, Bruno Tertrais, Keith B. Payne, K. Subrahmanyam and Scott D. Sagan
Experts from Europe, Asia and North America debate the case for a US declaratory policy of no nuclear first use.
Rethinking Afghanistan
by Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson
The logic behind US escalation in Afghanistan is that US strategic interests require assuming responsibility for rebuilding the Afghan state. But this logic is false.
by Timo Noetzel and Thomas Rid
The next German government is likely to adapt its policies only haltingly, instead of leaping into action as the new US administration has done.
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by Amin Saikal
The current turmoil in Iran stems from deep structural problems in the nature of its Islamic government.
by Steven A. Cook
Turkey’s domestic ideological struggles threaten both the impressive reforms enacted earlier this decade and the country’s new-found international standing.
by Margaret Blunden
Tensions have been rising as global warming opens up new economic opportunities that change the geostrategic dynamics in the North.
by Pierre-Henri d’Argenson
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) will soon confront a threshold of progress beyond which controversial choices on future developments and final aims will have to be made.
Review Essays
by Eliot A. Cohen
by Erik Jones
by Hugh White
by Andrew C. Kuchins
Closing Argument
by Oksana Antonenko
Plus
• Middle East
Steven Simon• United States
David Calleo• Politics and International Relations
Pierre Hassner• South Asia
Teresita C. Schaffer• War, Conflict and the Military
H.R. McMaster
