Environment & Climate Change

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled to Washington last week, making his fourth trip to the United States since taking office just two years ago. India and South Asia Program Fellow, Ronak Desai examines the strategic approach to India's relations with the United States.

"Leaders are those who help groups create and achieve shared goals. Traditionally, the leaders in international politics have been the most powerful states. However, while hard military power counts for more in the context of international politics than it does in democratic domestic politics, even in international relations conquest, or pure coercion, is not leadership, but mere dictation. Disproportionate power, sometimes called 'hegemony', has been associated with leadership, but appeals to values and ideology also matter, even for a hegemon...."

Article in The Nonproliferation Review

"The terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon triggered the most rapid and dramatic change in the history of U.S. foreign policy."

Dr. Ashton B. Carter's article in Scientific American

Journal Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter

Dr. Ashton B. Carter's article in Scientific American

Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter in International Security

A new international regime could stop nations before they enter the proliferation “red zone.”

Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on U.S. Alliances in the Joint Forces Quarterly