US Clean Energy Policy: Surviving in a Heated Environment
In recent years, the emerging U.S. clean energy industry has faced increasing pressure from foreign competitors. This competition has taken its toll; the U.S. has fallen behind its rivals in the export...
View ArticleAmerica’s Vanishing Military: How Acquisition Failures Threaten U.S. Military...
In the midst of debates about America’s decline, one fact is unchallenged: the United States possesses the most powerful military on the planet. Unfortunately, the United States’ increasingly inability...
View ArticlePakistan: A Volatile Ally
A person who walks from Casablanca to Beijing today will pass through more than a dozen countries that have faced civil unrest since the start of 2011. Some, like Egypt and Tunisia, have exploded only...
View ArticleThe Necessary Role of Guantanamo Bay
Two days after his much-heralded inauguration, President Barack Obama issued three executive orders that effectively ended military commission trials at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Claiming...
View ArticleIn Defense of the U.S. Response to Intervention in Libya
On the first day of the military attacks on Libya, U.S. President Barack Obama took great pains to emphasize that the intervention in Libya would not be a U.S. operation. Instead, he outlined the...
View ArticleRenewing the War on Drugs: A Firmer Stand against Mexican Cartels
The upsurge in drug-related violence in Mexico vividly illustrates the type of war that the United States and Mexico will have to continue waging against drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). As...
View ArticleThe End of an Era: America’s Withdrawal from Iraq
President Obama announced his plan to withdraw all American troops by the end of this year on October 21, marking the end to a controversial eight-year war., This decision, ostensibly motivated by the...
View ArticleThe Art of War: The National Defense Authorization Act
On New Year’s Eve, President Obama signed into law the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains budgetary and executive provisions for what the administration calls, “the defense of the...
View ArticlePrinceton Perspectives: An Interview with Keith Bradsher GS ’89
Keith Bradsher GS ’89, the Hong Kong bureau chief of The New York Times, has covered the business, economic, and political affairs of China for the last decade and has been a staff writer for the...
View ArticleA Craggy Road to Peace: The Case for Invading North Korea
It seems counterintuitive and nearly Orwellian to consider waging war as a means of peace, yet history has shown countless examples in which the two were hardly distinguishable. The Mahabarata first...
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