Photo by European External Action Service/Flickr | This article was featured in GSSR Vol. 1 Issue 1 | By Roslyn Warren | In his Foreign Affairs article, “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” Kenneth Waltz suggests that a nuclear-armed Iran is nothing to fear. Indeed, he goes so far as to claim that Iran’s membership … Continue reading Miscalculating Nuclear Deterrence in the Middle East: Why Kenneth Waltz Gets It Wrong

Photo by Brandon Aitchison | This article was featured in GSSR Vol. 1 Issue 1 | By Andrea Clabough | Civil wars are often perceived solely as internal tragedies even though they often have devastating impacts beyond their borders. While the Syrian conflict has raged for over a year with no resolution in sight, Syria’s … Continue reading Lebanon and the Syrian Civil War: Preventing the Descent Back Into Conflict

Photo by Brandon Aitchison This op-ed was featured in GSSR Vol. 1 Issue 2.  By Tom Dinham After an initially promising start upon assuming office on June 30, 2012, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood movement to which he belongs have lurched from one political crisis to the next. At each stage, an unwillingness to … Continue reading A Road to Nowhere: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Failure to Negotiate a Democratic Transition in Egypt

This letter to the editor was featured in GSSR Vol. 1 Issue 2. To the Editors, In a well-argued and thoughtful article (“Miscalculating Nuclear Deterrence: Iran and the Bomb,” Global Security Studies Review, Volume I, Issue 1), Roslyn Warren argues that Kenneth Waltz is mistaken in his “more may be better” logic regarding the prospects for conflict … Continue reading Why Waltz May Have it Right