Peacekeeping
Once the Victim, Rwanda is Fixing Peacekeeping Across Africa
The most frustrating aspect of the 1994 anti-Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda was how preventable it was. Kofi Annan, then-Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, ordered his men to stand down as...
Why America Should Rejoin UN Peacekeeping Missions
During the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign, former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, then adviser to the George W. Bush campaign, stated that “extended peacekeeping detracts from our readiness.” She...
UN Renews Western Sahara Peacekeeping Mission for Additional Year
The United Nations Security Council has renewed the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the disputed territory of Western Sahara for an additional year, largely owing to renewed violence following the breakdown...
Time To Reform the United Nation’s Faltering African Peacekeeping
As the United States and China are escalating their global competition, Africa is emerging as a new battlefield. Thus, keeping stability and supporting pro-Western governments there should be a top...
How Resource Wealth Fuels War
Though mired in the depths of the Cold War, the latter half of the twentieth century was a period in which the standard of living across the globe rose substantially....
To Defeat Boko Haram, Give Peace a Chance
With as many as two thousand people feared dead in what is being called Boko Haram’s deadliest massacre to date, it is well past time for a new approach to...
The Myth of Japanese Remilitarization
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is determined to end all doubts about Japan’s international ambitions and reassert Japan’s status as a “first-tier nation.” To that end, the Abe government has adopted...
Facing Reality in Ukraine
The attack letter on the Boistö bilateral U.S.-Russian Track II initiative setting out a path toward a stable cease-fire in Ukraine is sad, yet, in ways, useful. Sad, because it...
The Hamas Way of War
Hamas starts wars it knows it can’t finish. It also knows full well that wars in a very small place put innocents at risk. And Hamas is fine with that....
Death from Above: Israel’s Hamas Nightmare Continues
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are under Hamas rocket fire, people are hesitant to go to work, send kids to summer camps, go to the beach. Much of Israel has been...
India and Pakistan: A Thin Line between War and Peace
An early dividend of Narendra Modi’s election as India’s prime minister appeared on May 26, when Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited New Delhi for the inauguration. In his winning...
Catch-22 in the Sahel
In the relative backwater of U.S. foreign policy that is the Sahel, U.S. engagement has in recent years has been a function of the vital, albeit limited, national-security interest in...