‘Only Freedom Can Work Such Miracles’
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…
Renewing Leadership
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…
Blurred Lines
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…
The New Normal
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…
Conclusions: Reflections on great power competition in a time of COVID-19
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…
Great Power Competition and Europe
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…
The Contest For Central Asia
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…
‘War by other memes’
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…
Modern Propaganda
A most exquisite and indispensable fifth-generation warfare tool
By Joseph Vann, Marshall Center | Photos By The Associated Press
The art of propaganda is in the midst of a phenomenal revolution that few appreciate.
We are witnessing…
Defining Hybrid Warfare
By James K. Wither
Following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Crimea in March 2014, hybrid warfare ceased to be a subject studied only by military strategists and entered the wider policy domain as a significant security challenge for…