A live firing drill during joint exercises between the US and ROK in April 2017 in Pocheon, South Korea. Photo Credit: AFP. In response to an increasingly hostile China, Washington has devised a strategy designed to leverage its existing alliance system in Asia, including its partnership with South Korea, to augment its power. The US-ROK … Continue reading The Strategic Costs of the Weakened US-ROK Exercises

Photo by Juliette Humble/UK DFID By Mike Burnham and Shannon Peterson | How do individuals morally justify participation in ethnic violence? This paper presents original research that attempts to answer this question. Using text analysis software and Jonathan Haidt’s moral matrix, a total of 225 text samples from three different ideological groups—Liberals, Conservatives, and White … Continue reading The Moral Foundations of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict