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The Crisis of Realism
Jonathan LevineIn 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was inaugurated to great international fanfare. Its signatories, who included the United States and most of Europe, disavowed the use of war in resolving...
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Don't Call the U.S. Bluff, Mr. Kim
Zachary KeckNorth Korea may soon be able to reach the western United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. As the latest round of its belligerence has intensified, some have begun to consider...
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Exploit Beijing's Nuclear Nightmare
Ted Galen CarpenterAs concern about North Korea’s bellicose behavior deepens, calls are growing among pundits and politicians in the United States for China to “do something” about its obnoxious ally....
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Bomb, Coerce or Contain Iran
Gregory D. KoblentzAlthough Syria’s civil war is dominating front pages around the world, a debate is still raging in Washington, Tel Aviv and other capitals about how to stop Iran from developing...
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Kenneth Waltz and the Power of Pure Theory
Michael C. DeschKenneth Waltz died this week, just shy of his 89th birthday. I can’t say that I knew the famous Berkeley scholar well, though I did once have lunch with him early in my career. It was a...
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Kenneth Waltz's Crucial Logic
James JoynerKenneth Waltz, the most important Realist theorist of the last half-century, died Monday, a few weeks before his 89th birthday.His Columbia University doctoral dissertation was published in...
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Berlin and the Arms-Control Debate
Frank KlotzPublic debate on nuclear-weapons policy is relatively rare these days. Two developments nevertheless pushed the topic back into the limelight last week. On June 19th, President Obama...
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The Future of Britain's Nuclear Deterrent
Frank KlotzA perennial question faced by the major nuclear powers is how many and what kinds of nuclear forces are necessary to maintain an effective, credible deterrent. Contending assessments of...
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Nonproliferation Misinterpretation
Yousaf ButtIn a recent piece for Foreign Policy, former Obama Iran hand Robert Einhorn argues that Iran should not be allowed to enrich uranium because he feels Iran is not in compliance with its...
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Senators' Iran Letter Complicates Solution
Greg ThielmannBy early September, P5+1 diplomats (from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and Germany) will likely resume talks aimed at resolving concerns about Iran’s...
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Iran: What New Nuclear Opportunity?
Emily B. LandauAs Hassan Rowhani embarks on his presidency in Iran, there are competing narratives regarding his image of moderation. Some are emphasizing that he brings with him a new message of hope...
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India's Nuclear Blunder
Zachary KeckIt’s fashionable in Western security circles to proclaim that nuclear weapons never make a state more secure. This is hogwash. Nuclear weapons, more so than any other single factor, are why...
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The Case for India's Nuclear Weapons
Dhruva JaishankarBoth the benefits and limitations of nuclear weapons are best captured by a single fact: of all nuclear-armed adversaries, only theSoviet Union and China in 1969 andIndia and Pakistan...
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How China Reads North Korea
Joel WuthnowAs the crisis in Syria unfolds, a less noticed problem has been the widening gap between China and the United States about how to handle another “rogue regime”—North Korea. After signs of...
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North Korea's Chemical Shop of Horrors
J. Berkshire Miller“If you set a red-line, you should stick to it,” remarked a Japanese defense official at a recent conference on extended deterrence in Seoul when asked about the U.S. approach to...
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