Filter By:
Date
Topic
- Economic Policy (29) Apply Economic Policy filter
- Education (10) Apply Education filter
- Energy, Science & Technology (30) Apply Energy, Science & Technology filter
- Health Care (6) Apply Health Care filter
- History (44) Apply History filter
- Law (50) Apply Law filter
- Values & Social Policy (36) Apply Values & Social Policy filter
Type
Search
James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Former Ambassador Addresses Strains In U.S.-Russia Relations
Before a crowded Statler auditorium audience March 16, former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tackled the question haunting U.S.-Russia relations
Bibi's Victory Is Kerry's Defeat
Benjamin Netanyahu won the Israeli elections Tuesday. John Kerry lost.
Why The AUMF For The Islamic State Has Stalled
“Congress is stalled in its effort to pass a separate resolution authorizing military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” write Austin Wright and Bryan Bender in a good Politico story two days ago.
March Madness From The United Nations
The NCAA basketball tournament has started, and I hope I’ve picked my brackets as well as I predicted the outcome of this month’s meeting of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a component of the UN’s World Health Organization that evaluates the likelihood that various chemicals cause cancer.
The Precise (And Narrow) Limits On U.S. Economic Espionage
This Intercept story on New Zealand’s surveillance of candidates for director general of the World Trade Organization sparked a related conversation yesterday on twitter about the exact scope of U.S. economic espionage.
Letter From Heads Of SFRC And SASC To Kerry And Carter On South China Sea
Yesterday the Chairmen and Ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (McCain and Reed) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Corker and Menendez) sent a noteworthy letter to Secretaries Kerry and Carter about growing Chinese hegemony in the South China Sea.
Further Reflections On NOBUS (And An Approach For Balancing The Twin Needs For Offensive Capability And Better Defensive Security In Deployed Systems)
In a previous post, I commented on the Nobody-But-Us (NOBUS) view of the world. My original post says that the real technical question raised by NOBUS is how long nobody-but-us access can be kept for a given proposed system.
Stephen Haber, A Professor At Stanford University, Speaks At The Association Of Mexican Banks Annual Convention
Stephen Haber, a professor at Stanford University, speaks at the Association of Mexican Banks annual convention in Acapulco, Mexico, on Friday, March 20, 2015. Mexico's 2015 forecast for gross domestic product for 2015 was cut to 2.6 percent from 3.3 percent in a report by Barclays on concerns for public spending and lower oil prices.
Obama Appeases While Netanyahu Shows A Gleam Of Steel
After the 1938 Munich conference, First Lord of the Admiralty Duff Cooper resigned in protest from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s cabinet.
Sen. Tom Cotton, Tragic Hero
The snarky quip attributed to 19th-century French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -- "It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder" -- has recently been making the rounds to deride a letter written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and signed by 46 other senators.
Kori Schake On Bloomberg Radio
Hoover fellow Kori Schake discusses President Obama’s plan to slow troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Schake notes that the end game of war should be dictated by the circumstances not by an artificial timeline. Schake believes that Obama does not want another Iraq on his hands and therefore he wants to leave troops in Afghanistan for a longer period of time.
Who’s Afraid Of The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act Of 2015?
Last Friday The Hill reported that Senator Corker believes he “will have a veto-proof majority” to enact the “Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015” (INARA).
Etiquette Versus Annihilation
Recent statements from United Nations officials, that Iran is already blocking their existing efforts to keep track of what is going on in their nuclear program, should tell anyone who does not already know it that any agreement with Iran will be utterly worthless in practice. It doesn't matter what the terms of the agreement are, if Iran can cheat.
A Worry About The New Executive Order On Sanctions For Malicious Cyber Activity
As Paul Rosenzweig noted earlier today in Lawfare, the President just signed out an Executive Order that can result in the imposition of financial sanctions on a variety of bad actors that ply their trade through cyber means or against important cyber assets and/or restrictions or bans on travel to the United States on such individuals.
I’m A Republican And I Support The Iran Nuclear Deal
There's plenty of cause for skepticism. But there are at least 5 reasons to support this tentative agreement.
Sanctions On Iran: Long Road Ahead For Lifting UN, EU, US Embargoes
Tehran wants immediate relief in nuclear deal, while Western powers prefer gradual easing of restrictions
Foreign Graduates Of U.S. Colleges Become Agents Of Change Abroad
College acceptance letters landed in mailboxes across the country these last few weeks.
Kori Schake On The Lars Larson Show
Hoover fellow Kori Schake explains why she supports a tentative nuclear deal with Iran.
The Iran 'Agreement' Charade
By abandoning virtually all its demands for serious restrictions on Iran's nuclear bomb program, the Obama administration has apparently achieved the semblance of a preliminary introduction to the beginning of a tentative framework for a possible hope of an eventual agreement with Iran.
Repeating History Yet Again
We all should be angry right now about the disastrous “general understanding” with Iran about its nuclear ambitions.