While nuclear crises between the “Big Three” can still be managed, preventing an arms race will be much more difficult.  The rise of China as a prospective strategic nuclear superpower increases the challenge of maintaining deterrence stability and implementing nuclear arms control over the world’s most dangerous weapons. In light …

War-Preparation and militarism are now the main factors that keep the West together – and will make it fall faster. The Western world has lost its consciousness, perception, and instruments of conflict analysis, resolution, peace-making, and reconciliation. They’ve been squeezed out by militarism’s kakistocrats – a political science term that means …

Executive Summary The U.S. government’s expressed commitment to human rights is routinely undermined by its actual commitment to maintaining America’s global military primacy. Since the 1970s, Washington has cast itself as a defender of global human rights, when Congress passed laws to bar the U.S. from providing security assistance to human rights …

Academic Neta Crawford warns that if Donald Trump follows through on his threats of war, emissions will soar and the planet will pay the price  Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries  Revealed: Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year The …

An 18th century white slaver’s rulebook has, unsurprisingly, failed to serve the interests of a modern, multi-racial democracy. We can do better. People increasingly ask if we are in a Constitutional crisis, but we are past that. We have undergone a regime change, and are operating outside the bounds of …

If the Trump administration wants to cut Pentagon waste and avoid future wars, it should set its sights on abolishing the Combatant Command system. The torrent of foreign policy news in the second Trump administration flows so fast that big ideas are often swamped and sink. One such case was …