Flying and Excess Radiation
The doses of radiation experienced in everyday life, especially flying long distances in jet aircraft, pose risks we should carefully heed.
Do the Military and Development Mix?
Measuring economic development in Afghanistan by the same yardstick as a Pentagon mission is a recipe for disaster.
Beyond Muscle: Using Financial Leverage for Middle East Peace
To promote the conditions for peace in the Middle East, the U.S. should tie security assistance to Israeli settlement policy.
The Pursuit of True Security
For all of the money we spend on defense, are we really all that safer?
Asia’s New Axis?
New leaders in Australia and South Korea could mean a shift in geopolitical weight in Asia.
Tibet’s Dangerous Game
Washington must balance human rights and regional stability in its response to Beijing over Tibet.
Plan Mexico
Two men, a plan, an alliance: disaster. Columnist Laura Carlsen reports on the next phase of U.S.-Mexican relations.
To improve security, follow the money
A unified security budget is the first step towards fixing our nation’s distorted security priorities.
NAFTA: Kicked Up a Notch
NAFTA is not just about free trade any more. As columnist Laura Carlsen explains, NAFTA has a new and ominous punch as well.
A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2008
As Congress works to balance the budget and find a solution to the Iraq crisis it must also focus on a different kind of budget balancing.
3D Security
Foreign aid, civil military integration, military, AID, diplomacy, development, Defense Department, State Department, security
Leveraging "3D" Security: From Rhetoric to Reality
Knitting defense, development, and diplomacy together–the ups and the downsides of a real work in progress.
A Unified Security Budget for the United States, 2007
A Unified Security Budget for the United States asks many of the questions about the security budget that members of Congress and the administration are unwilling to address while making bold recommendations for reform.
Spying and Lying in 21st Century America
U.S. foreign policy and U.S. democracy.
Trading Liberty for Security after September 11
What we have done since September 11 is not to make the hard choice of choosing which of our liberties we are willing to forego, but rather to sacrifice their libertiesthose of immigrants, and especially of Arab and Muslim immigrantsfor the purported security of the rest of us.