Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts The DPRK’s nuclear missile program is growing every day. The DPRK has recently conducted a number of missile tests to the alarm of the ROK and Japan. Does the growing threat of the DPRK’s missile program destabilize the security balance in Northeast Asia? Does the PRC’s nuclear program … Continue reading Precision-Guided Podcast: A New Era For Nuclear Deterrence in Northeast Asia with Dr. Keir Lieber
Precision-Guided Podcast: Connecting Climate, Energy, and Security with Kate Gordon
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts The destabilizing effects of global climate change represent key security challenges for the United States. These challenges manifest at both the strategic level, in how climate impacts global trends like instability and mass migration, and at the tactical level, in how climate can threaten critical national security infrastructure … Continue reading Precision-Guided Podcast: Connecting Climate, Energy, and Security with Kate Gordon
GSSR Volume 11, Issue 1 Available for Download
Volume 11, Issue 1 of The Georgetown Security Studies Review is now available. View and download the issue here. GSSR-11-1-FinalDownload If you are interested in publishing with the GSSR in future editions or on our online forum, please view our “Contribute” page or contact the Editor-in-Chief at gssr@georgetown.edu. Uncollated individual articles can be found below: BaumgartnerLuke-Israels-Counter-Hezbollah-StrategyDownload CormariePaul-The-Logic-of-a-French-Return-to-NATODownload … Continue reading GSSR Volume 11, Issue 1 Available for Download
Book Review | Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay
This Book Review was submitted as a guest post by Patrick Jourdan, a student in the Security Studies Program (SSP). In the Summer of 2021, America watched the evacuation of Afghanistan. Terrifying images of Hamid Karzai International Airport filled our screens almost every day. Marines and Paratroopers deployed to the most chaotic of situations, holding … Continue reading Book Review | Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay
Ending Gender-based Violence Requires Comprehensive Engagement — A Reminder to men: Finish what you Started
Image Source: Women for Women In principle, the civil war in South Sudan ended after a peace agreement was signed in 2018. In principle, South Sudan’s constitution ensures a 35 percent representation quota for women in government. Again, in principle, initiatives, training, and bills such as the Gender-Based Violence Bill and the Women’s Empowerment Bill … Continue reading Ending Gender-based Violence Requires Comprehensive Engagement — A Reminder to men: Finish what you Started
Precision-Guided Podcast: Bringing National Security Insight into the Private Sector with Mark Freedman
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts There have never been as many security issues facing American business as there are today. Threats from international insecurity, great power competition, and new tools like cyber and AI that allow malign actors to destabilize from a distance face nations and companies alike. This trend is especially concerning … Continue reading Precision-Guided Podcast: Bringing National Security Insight into the Private Sector with Mark Freedman
ARROS: A Universal Framework for Scrutinizing Policy Pros and Cons
Image Generated Using MidJourney AI Policymakers and researchers frequently grapple with complex questions of the form “will taking X action produce Q effect—and how good/bad is Q?” For example, lobbyists or researchers may claim that semiconductor export controls will accelerate China’s indigenization of semiconductor manufacturing, accepting Finland into NATO will increase the likelihood of nuclear … Continue reading ARROS: A Universal Framework for Scrutinizing Policy Pros and Cons
The Need for Private Investment to Tackle Climate Change in Africa
Image Source: Focal Foto The evidence is clear: within ten years the world is likely to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold. Surpassing this threshold will significantly endanger natural systems and will be accompanied by major climate catastrophes. Even if the threshold is avoided, climate change will have a significant – although highly disproportionate – … Continue reading The Need for Private Investment to Tackle Climate Change in Africa
China’s Monopoly over Critical Minerals
Image Source: BBC As part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken to investing in critical mineral mines globally. One of these investment hotspots is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2020, the DRC was the world’s largest cobalt miner, producing 41 of all cobalt resources. Although not … Continue reading China’s Monopoly over Critical Minerals
Dr. Policymaker or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Question “Market Irrationality”
Image Created by MidJourney AI The passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and economic competition between the United States and China over strategic technologies have reinvigorated the exploration of “industrial policy” as a means to bolster national security. With such attention comes an onslaught of ideological rhetoric, references to the “valley of death”, and … Continue reading Dr. Policymaker or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Question “Market Irrationality”