... would continue to accept that their security was best protected with weapons that could destroy humankind.” In the way it highlights this complexity, Colbourn’s book can be read as a valuable sequel to Marc Trachtenberg’s 1999 landmark A Constructed Peace , and comes close to it in scope...

...Tuomas Forsberg In May 2022, Finland and Sweden both announced that they had decided to apply for membership in NATO. This was a dramatic shift in both countries’ foreign and security policies, but a logical consequence of their European Union membership and close partnership with NATO in the post...

...-immigrant sentiment and high levels of political polarization. Europe terrorism al-Qaeda Islamic State far right security © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Two decades on from September 11, 2001, the terrorist threat in Europe has been almost entirely transformed...

... of “entangled” security—from pandemics to climate change, to conflict and military engagement, to challenges to democracies in the form of internal polarization and external threats. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a striking illustration of this “global security entanglement” in action. This essay presents...

..., health care, education, and security. These statements tend to generate considerable social media noise and reach the wider population through the national press, but the reality is often very different than they claim. Behind Bukele’s youthful, modern image is a social conservative opposed to same...

... Gordon economic sanctions Iraq Iran South Africa Cuba United States United Nations Security Council international finance banking insurance shipping trade humanitarian 3In 1919, trying to persuade the United States to join the League of Nations, President Wood-row Wilson touted...

... of the University of California Rosamond Naylor food security famine hunger agriculture Green Revolution foreign aid population China India climate change malnutrition obesity Ending world hunger is a universal goal, yet progress and social awareness of the issue waxes and wanes...

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...Susan Landau Why did the Obama administration treat threats against a Hollywood studio over a movie mocking North Korea as a matter of national security? It was sending a message to deter others. Susan Landau cybersecurity cybersurveillance cyberattacks hacking North Korea Kim Jong-un...

... Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Collective Security Treaty Organization New Silk Road Economic Belt oil gas pipelines Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin 272 China is the increasingly dominant power in the region, but it is acting in full concordance with Russia. China and Russia s Soft Competition...

...C. Christine Fair If the international community wants to secure the real gains it has made in Afghanistan, it needs to stop obsessing about the troop drawdown and begin figuring out how to avert the funding drawdown that is the single biggest threat to Afghanistan's future. © 2015 Current...

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... postcommunist association OSCE organization security cooperation Europe open skies treaty national nationalism euro-atlantic 265 This year, the tragedies and outrages of the Ukraine crisis have dominated headlines and thinking about Western relations with Russia. There can be little doubt...

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... APRM peer review mechanism voice smart g-20 g-8 group eight BRICS security council Mine Ban SADPA nongovernmental 197 South Africa s moral authority and willingness to play an active role in the world gave it unique leverage with both the global North and the South. South Africa s...