Health security may become a core task of militaries By Dr. John L. Clarke, Marshall Center professor Viruses never die. And they don’t ever really go away. Variants of the Spanish flu have been with us for more than 100 years, and the…

EDITED BY:  Rebecca M. Seaman PUBLISHED BY:  ABC-CLIO REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor War and disease appear to go together like love and marriage: There is an attraction at first blush, a courtship, an…

Strong alliances protect European democracies By Ovidiu Dranga, Romanian ambassador to Poland In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on targets in the United States, the world witnessed an unprecedented wave of sympathy for…

Democratic institutions must emerge stronger from the pandemic By Dr. Suzanne Loftus, Marshall Center professor It could be argued that the 2008 global financial crisis was the major catalyst for many of the subsequent domestic issues…

AUTHOR:  Oscar Jonsson PUBLISHED BY:  Georgetown University Press REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor Oh, for the days of clarity when nations declared war on their adversaries with courteous diplomatic notes and…

AUTHOR:  Ben Buchanan PUBLISHED BY:  Harvard University Press REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor Cyber war wasn’t supposed to be this way. We expected the digital equivalent of Pearl Harbor, signifying the…

Dr. Graeme P. Herd, Marshall Center professor If great power competition is the defining paradigm of our current era, COVID-19 acts as its X-ray. The pandemic reveals and reinforces a central feature of the structure of the current…

State and network-centric perspectives By Dr. Graeme P. Herd, Marshall Center professor In the United States, there is cross-party bipartisan agreement that China is the U.S.’ most serious long-term threat because it has come to be…

AUTHOR:  Alexander Cooley PUBLISHED BY:  Oxford University Press, USA REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor In the 1800s, Russia and Great Britain played a geopolitical “great game” to control trade routes from…

AUTHORs:  P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking PUBLISHED BY:  Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt REVIEWED BY:  Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor If war is, as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz so memorably…