Christopher Cowan discusses Shinzo Abe’s keynote address at the 2014 Asia Security Summit and its possible foreign policy implications for Japan.
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Making Monsters: American Support for Insurgency Groups in the Middle East Backfires
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The Economy of Drones and their Proliferation
Piotr Zulauf discusses how drones are changing national economies and how their proliferation will transform the way we wage war.
Turkey’s Silent Military
Christian Paas-Lang discusses the conspicuous absence of the Turkish military in that country’s most recent political crisis.
The Anatomy of a Coup: Comparing Thailand and Egypt
Alex Langer discusses the recent military coups in Egypt and Thailand and analyzes the impact on the international community.