The Atlantic Community has launched a new series of essays looking at the future of European security, specifically in resourcing and procurement: In an uncertain economic climate, defense ministries across Europe are slashing spending as budgetary pressures rise. These cuts come just as the United...
What happens in Libya in the coming months (and years) will test the assumption that aiding the anti-Gadhafi forces to come to power will bring benefits to the U.S. Post-Gadhafi Libya is set to become the next major test of two competing approaches to international...
Where does Libya go from here? Peter Apps from Reuters filed this report: Libya's new leaders and their foreign allies face the daunting task of restoring order, beginning reconstruction and avoiding collapse into conflict and chaos. Giving the provisional government access to Libya's frozen era...
Does the fall of Muammar Gadhafi signal a shift both in how U.S. and European foreign policy is conducted and in the global environment as a whole? Although there was an attempt to paint Gadhafi as a "clear and present" danger to U.S. national security,...
From today's World Politics Review column: Historically, when faced with severe financial and resource constraints, major powers have begun a process of shrinking commitments and making very clear distinctions between vital interests and secondary ones. ... Yet official Washington is loath to undertake this process....
Riots and unrest have a way of concentrating the attention of policymakers. Suddenly expending blood and treasure to defend peace and freedom in foreign lands seems far less important. In the aftermath of the violence that swept through London and other British cities this past...
How is the rise of China affecting maritime strategies around the world? Reuter's Peter Apps notes: As the PLAN acquires more sophisticated equipment, including a carrier initially acquired from Ukraine in the late 1990s ostensibly to be used as a floating casino, as well as...
What constitutes war? Andrew Stigler and I point out some of the difficulties in coming up with standards: Should a 40-minute raid conducted by several dozen commandos be regarded as "hostilities" commensurate with an act of war? After all, force was projected across borders and...
Nikolas K. Gvosdev Monthly Archives
Authors
- Richard Andres
- Benjamin Bahney
- Cheryl Benard
- Bruce Bennett
- Linda Bishai
- Jonah Blank
- Tim Brown
- James Jay Carafano
- Steven R. Charbonneau
- Christopher Chivvis
- Lindsay Clutterbuck
- Sam Cohen
- James L. Cook
- Walton Cook
- Ed Corcoran
- Ralph Cossa
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Rafiq Dossanip
- Charles Dunlap
- Amitai Etzioni
- Gareth Evans
- Nikolas K. Gvosdev
- Larry Hanauer
- Scott Warren Harold
- Brian Michael Jenkins
- David Johnson
- Terrence Kelly
- Michael Krepon
- Stephen Larrabee
- Mackenzie Eaglen
- Jeffrey Martini
- Arthur G. Martirosyan
- Ralph Masi
- Ali Nader
- Aram Nerguizian
- Ori Nir
- Olga Oliker
- Jim Phillips
- Isaac R Porche
- James T. Quinlivan
- Reset Defense Bulletin
- Charles Ries
- RSIS
- Paul Saunders
- David Schenker
- Ghassan Schbley
- Mark Schneider
- Daniel Serwer
- George Smith
- Scott Snyder
- Jon Soltz
- Julie Taylor
- Alexander Thier
- Charles P. Vick
- Rosemary Freitas Williams
- Charles Wolf, Jr.
- Elizabeth Zolotukhina
