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Good to Know: U.S. war powers

Andrew Rudalevige - February 22, 2024
Does the president or Congress have the power to go to war?

Perhaps Putin thinks acting crazy is a good strategy. My research says otherwise.

Roseanne McManus - March 6, 2022
‘Madness’ isn’t a common leadership trait

Afghanistan’s security forces unraveled this month. What broke their seven-year stalemate with the Taliban?

Yuri Zhukov and Stephen Biddle - August 31, 2021
The dynamics behind this kind of collapse are more common than you might think

Trump thought escalating the Iran crisis would solve it. That’s not how escalation works

Danielle Lupton - January 7, 2020
Here are four reasons deterrence by escalation is difficult to achieve.

Trump overrode the Navy’s plans to discipline a SEAL. That wasn’t as troubling as some think.

Carrie Lee - December 9, 2019
Firing a civilian Navy secretary – not a career military officer – averted a potential crisis.

No, Trump probably won’t start a war to distract from his difficulties. Here’s what he’ll do instead.

Valerie Morkevičius and Danielle Lupton - October 16, 2019
Expect an even more chaotic foreign policy

How the Mueller report reminds us of Watergate

Andrew Rudalevige - April 19, 2019
Four curious echoes of the iconic White House abuse of power.

The point of the Afghanistan ‘peace deal’ is simple: The U.S. wants to get out

James H. Lebovic - January 31, 2019
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Rhetorical ‘fire and fury’ can help the U.S. globally – if the president has enough backing at home

Roseanne McManus - August 9, 2017
President Trump is making news for saying that North Korea

Obama used covert retaliation in response to Russian election meddling. Here’s why.

Austin Carson - June 29, 2017
[caption id="attachment_60504" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Russian President Vladimir Putin meets President
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