Global Security

Fifty-one years after Iceland’s historic Women’s Day Off, the question of who sustains our communities remains as relevant as ever. On October 24, 1975, women across Iceland did something extraordinary. They stopped working. They walked away from offices, factories, schools, and shops. They refused to cook, clean, care for children, or perform the countless household

Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” is usually described as a novel about violence, the American frontier, Manifest Destiny, or the darkness of human nature. Reading it as a scholar of human security, however, I found myself returning to a different question: Who, in this world, is actually secure? “Blood Meridian” is filled with the institutions and

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. It was not a mystery, not an unforeseeable accident, and not a failure of imagination. It was a failure of decision-making under pressure, made by people who knew better and convinced themselves otherwise. Forty years later, Challenger

To many non-Americans, the United States looks over-legalized and under-regulated at the same time. It has a written Constitution older than most modern states, yet it often lacks explicit laws where Europeans expect them. Whole domains of political and legal life appear to rest on assumptions rather than rules. This is not an accident. For

In the book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, historian Ned Blackhawk advances an argument that is as disturbing as it is well documented: Adolf Hitler did not invent settler colonial violence from nothing. He studied it. And one of his most important reference points was the United States.

November 9 marks the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism, a date that commemorates Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi mobs burned synagogues, destroyed Jewish-owned shops, and unleashed a wave of violence that signaled the beginning of the Holocaust. It is a day for remembrance, but also for vigilance. Because the ideas that

When aid convoys stopped arriving in a refugee camp near the South Sudan border, a young mother named Rovina did not know that the cause lay thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., where an executive order had frozen foreign assistance and shut down vital programs. Her story is at the heart of Rovina’s Choice,

The Arctic is no longer a remote, frozen expanse reserved for polar bears, indigenous communities, and scientific stations. As the planet warms, the polar region is rapidly emerging as a major exterior for economic opportunity and strategic competition. Melting ice has unlocked vast reserves of hydrocarbons, new shipping routes such as the Northern Sea Route

The world of global security is in a state of profound transition. For decades, the Euro-Atlantic security architecture has been underpinned by a simple, yet powerful, principle: collective defense anchored by the United States. This model, a legacy of the post-World War II era, is now facing unprecedented stress. As the US recalibrates its strategic

On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as the deadliest terrorist attacks on U.S. soil unfolded in real time. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost when four commercial planes were hijacked, two crashing into the Twin Towers in New York, one into the Pentagon, and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. These attacks didn’t