Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Scholars, Think Tanks, and Influence on Policymaking • Stimson Center
This chapter demonstrates how and why scholars and think tanks have had an uneven influence in the policymaking process.
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This chapter demonstrates how and why scholars and think tanks have had an uneven influence in the policymaking process.
What the debate about the US presence in the Middle East boils down to is opportunity cost. An American soldier standing guard at Tower 22 in the Jordanian desert cannot simultaneously watch over the NATO border in Estonia, the demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula or Philippine shoals in the South China Sea. Captain America has a shield that’s big but not global. To keep holding it over Europe and East Asia, he must withdraw it from the Middle East
In the complex debate over the substantial US military presence in the Middle East, one strategic question persists...
The United States, a nation historically entangled in wars, finds itself grappling with a peculiar affliction – an insatiable appetite for conflict.
Here are some of the convictions that Republicans had to assent to in order to do what they did last week.