There has been no shortage of analytical efforts to conceptualize the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in recent months, specifically the ways in which the group differs ...

Venezuela’s autocrat and the darling of the Western left, Nicolas Maduro, is threatening to annex Guyana, or at a minimum the oil-rich two thirds of it. It is a sudden move, although the territory in ...

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Twenty-nine years ago, historian Paul Kennedy coined the term "imperial overstretch" to describe what happens to great powers when their global commitments become too expensive to sustain. He also ...

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and author of nine books, including "Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan." ...

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The Emeritus Chair in Strategy at CSIS is issuing a briefing on the challenges the U.S. faces in developing a global strategy that it can sustain with the resources it can actually make available in ...

Despite being the world’s biggest, and second richest, military force, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is struggling to cope. So argue Andrew Scobell and Andrew J. Nathan in a recent paper entitled ...