The initial reports regarding the November 28 attack on the campus of the Ohio State University had the makings of a potentially devastating terror attack, combining the styles of several recent attacks throughout the West....
The refugee crisis in Europe has already promised to be a significant factor in upcoming elections in France, Germany, and Austria...
The November 19 meeting of the white-supremacist group known as the ‘National Policy Institute’ at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. marked a rare event in the United States....
On November 19 and 20, world powers gathered at the 24th summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Peru for the first major multilateral summit since the U.S. presidential election....
In an interview on November 20, Vice President-elect Mike Pence refused to rule out the use of waterboarding—among other currently banned torture tactics—by the incoming administration....
Turkey's domestic security situation is becoming increasingly tenuous, as a confluence of issues undermine President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s historic commitment to a pragmatic foreign policy and strategic balancing....
As President-elect Donald Trump attempts to craft a U.S. foreign policy that will both reassure American allies and serve America’s national interests abroad, U.S. nuclear weapons policy is likely to face a variety of unique challenges and opportunities....
Social media has created enormous opportunities and changed the nature of communication, but the unprecedented distribution of information and misinformation via social media has also exacerbated global instability and crises....
The aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks brought significant fears of a subsequent wave of terror....
In negotiating the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran, the Obama Administration had hoped to turn over to its successor a less threatening Iran...
For decades, U.S. foreign policy has benefitted from historic alliances and strategic partnerships, often undergirded by billions of dollars in U.S. foreign security assistance....
On November 8, the American people elected Donald Trump as the country’s 45th President. President-elect Trump will assume office in January 20, 2017....
As the highly divisive U.S. presidential campaign comes to a close, the divisions in U.S. politics are paralleled by divisions on the international level related to persistent global security challenges. ...
There are few actions that run more contrarily to the ideology of the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda than voting in a U.S. presidential election....
It has been almost eleven months since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called Islamic State, last made a public message....