Graduation ceremony for newly trained police officers in South Sudan. Former SPLA soldiers were trained with the assistance of the UN Mission in South Sudan. Photo UN/ Tim McKulka
CSPS Fellow Christopher Gettel traces the evolution of American nuclear weapons policy, evaluating the merits of discrete eras of policy and arguing for the need to revisit nuclear weapons policy in a changing and uncertain international environment.
CSPS Fellow Joshua Stone argues that traditional understandings of security competition among great powers underestimate ideological factors and fail to explain US-China rivalry.
CSPS Fellow Will Nelson argues that the Russo-Ukrainian War threatens to become a protracted conflict with serious consequences for the viability of the Russian state.
Since the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Europe has faced a looming energy crisis. EU sanctions against Russia have minimized energy imports […]
CSPS Student Fellow Vincent Escobar frames the Russian-Ukrainian war in terms of Schelling’s distinction between brute force and coercion, arguing that a clear understanding of the different logics is key to understanding how the war could end.