The Potential Future of Domestic Drone Terrorism
Small recreational drones have not been used by terrorists so far, but they have the potential to be used...
Volume 18
Too Good to Be True: China’s Cheap Manipulation of the Renminbi Currency
The Chinese RMB is becoming more influential in international finance, but China’s internal politics mean that the RMB is...
Big Brother Hasn’t Been Watching: The Failures of the TSA
With a fifteen-year record fraught with mistakes, the TSA continues to demonstrate its inability to consistently protect the American...
Fear of the Dark: America’s Vulnerability to National Blackout
The nation-wide power grid is not likely to fall to EMPs and cyberattacks, but local power grids are in...
Doomed to Lose? Pivoting Away from the South China Sea
America’s hard-power buildup may provoke rather than deter China’s sustained push into the South China Sea; post-Cold War political...
Entryway to Espionage: The Dangers in Normalized Cuban Relations
The United States cannot let down its guard with normalized Cuban-American relations: Cuba still poses a severe economic espionage...
The Expanding Russian Shadow in the East
The post-Cold War world assumes a rough equality of power between the United States and Russia, but Russia’s growing...
Securing the Internet of Things
Ubiquitous internet connectivity is neither as imminent nor as immediately dangerous as pop culture depicts, but government regulations will...
Remarks on Russia with Dr. Chodakiewicz
A brief interview about Russia with IR professor Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, reprinted from February 2015.
Under the Sea: US Submarine Capabilities and the Myth of Invincibility
Although exceptionally powerful, US submarine capabilities are no longer nearly as dominant in international waters as they once were...