Joel Kotkin: The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
How will the enormous projected growth of the U.S. population in the next four decades change the face of America? Will it make the U.S. weaker, or even more diverse and competitive?
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Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Garry Wills traces how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots, defined the presidency, and redefined the government as a national security state.
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Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security--From World War II to the War on Terrorism
According to historian Julian Zelizer, partisan fighting has always shaped American foreign policy, and the issue of national security has always been part of our domestic conflicts.
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Book Review, "Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy"
David Crocker sketches the emergence and growth of development ethics over the last decades, and revisits some of his own earlier work to add newer analyses, extensions, and reflections.
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From Policy Innovations Online Magazine: "Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization"
The international system needs to move toward a foreign policy paradigm of shared risks through a focus on resilience, engagement, subgroups, foresight, fairness, and penalties
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Global Ethics Corner: Do People Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy?
Is U.S. foreign policy determined by individual policy-makers and core values, or by external threats and domestic pressures?
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Obama and Democracy Assistance: Challenges and Responses
Obama's considered and astute response to overcoming Bush's tarnished legacy promises to deliver a more sophisticated and coherent brand of democracy assistance, says Richard Lappin.
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