Author: Anna Ronell

The Trump administration’s decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani illuminates one of the most recurrent and self-destructive fallacies of strategic thinking: that our enemies act as they do because of their “nature,” while we act as we do because we face serious structural or environmental constraints.

As the Trump administration signals a return to great-power competition, it has also damaged the United States’ ability to prevail.

onflict zones provide ideal conditions for waste criminals, that waste crime is an easy way for militias to profit, and that environmental crime differs sharply from other modes of predation in the political science literature.

The Kremlin is losing the public’s tolerance to the severe mismanagement of the state. How will this domestic turmoil affect Russia’s international behavior?

Military interventions by major powers, especially the United States, designed to build states rest on flawed reasoning and a basic misunderstanding of how non-traditional threats emerge.