Résultats lu par "Kevin Stillwell" dans Toutes les catégories

Gandhi’s alienation of British India's Muslim elite means that he is at least partially responsible for the 1947 partition.

For 12 years, Katrina held all the "most horrible, most expensive" titles for US hurricanes. When the monster storm slammed into Mississippi's Gulf Coast in 2005, public health physician Dr. Robert Travnicek firmly faced the disaster. In Katrina, Mississippi: Voices from Ground Zero, Dr. Travnicek and other first responders reveal what really happened during Katrina: what they did to get ready, how they managed from inside the emergency operations centers in Hancock and Harrison Counties, and the catastrophic destruction they dealt with for several years to come.

Winning the Third World examines how China and the United States competed with each other during the mid-twentieth century for influence among postcolonial nations.

What if the U.S. government treated domestic extremist groups as it treats Americans suspected of being involved with jihadist organizations like ISIS?

How should politicians and policymakers respond to economic inequality? A new collection of essays offers some answers, but much work still needs to be done to turn academic ideas into practical proposals.

In many Muslim countries, mainstream Islamist parties are taking an increasingly secular approach to politics. Yet by doing so they risk destroying the religious elements of society that created them.

Governments are not the only ones conducting mass surveillance. Technology companies’ decisions about what information to retain, access, and share will increasingly influence how much both the public and private sectors know about all of us.

As India looks for ways to play a larger role on the world stage, the United States should welcome it into global institutions and reimagine the relationship between Washington and New Delhi.

As tempting the idea of withdrawing from Iraq may be, it would prove a mistake. U.S. troops, civilians, and funds are still needed to fend off terrorist attacks, strengthen the Iraqi state, and maintain a regional balance of power.

The Brexit vote was the result of many things: deep historical forces, individual choices, and the strategies of the campaigns. But above all, it stemmed from the failures of David Cameron’s conservative government, failures with which the United Kingdom will have to live for decades to come.

For years, the United States has failed to devise a strategy to deter or respond to cyberattacks. In the future, it must communicate what behavior is acceptable and what is not—and what Washington will do about it.

Yemen’s civil war is not, despite popular belief, part of a broader Saudi-Iranian conflict, but rather the result of deep historical tensions within Yemen itself. Yet the United States and Saudi Arabia can still do much to improve the humanitarian situation.

Training and equipping militaries in weak states is not the panacea that the U.S. national security community imagines it to be. In many cases, the United States should look for other ways to achieve its goals.

Sticking with the current approach in Afghanistan, as Trump has done, is the only real option. All that’s left is for Washington to try to do it better.

North Korea no longer poses a nonproliferation problem; it poses a nuclear deterrence problem. The United States should repeat the basic strategy that worked against the Soviet Union: practice careful deterrence until the regime in Pyongyang collapses under its own weight.

The terrorist threat has changed. U.S. strategy should change with it. Washington must deny terrorists safe havens, in the real world or online, and work against broader sources of instability that are making much of the world more hospitable to would-be jihadists.

With ISIS’ defeat in Syria looming and Assad’s regime likely to regain the entire country before long, the United States should recognize the limits of its intervention and avoid getting dragged into an endless war. Instead, it should focus its efforts on helping refugees outside Syria.

Russia has embarked on a systemic challenge to the West. Washington must respond by preserving transatlantic unity and strengthening NATO. But it must also maintain dialogue with Moscow to prevent the situation from worsening.

The United States is best off keeping a residual force in Afghanistan—but not escalating, as President Donald Trump plans to do.

Two days before the collapse of Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt, one man gathered the courage to tell the president the truth: he would be killed in his palace if he did not step down. What came next revealed the bitter power struggles atop the most populous country in the Middle East at its most vulnerable moment in six decades. This is the inside story of the final days of Egypt's modern day pharaoh, who ruled with near autocratic powers for three decades before being forced to resign on February 11, 2011.