Global Security Blog
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...
When most people hear the word “colonization,” they picture empires, armies, and foreign flags planted on occupied land. Colonialism belongs to history, or so we tell ourselves. Yet while the political structures of colonialism have largely...
I have spent years imagining what it would feel like to walk through a place that has been at the crossroads of history for thousands of years. Iran is one of those rare countries where every turn feels like a conversation between past and present. Its...
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...