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Since the 1830s, Egyptian regimes sought US government support to assist Egypt in gaining its independence and enable it to act freely in the region. Since 1974, the Egyptian–US strategic partnership emerged, especially after the Camp David Accords, to protect the region from the Soviet Union, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and then to contain the rise of terrorism.

By Zoltan Feher “We are the modern version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the 19th-century tale of an experimenting scientist who

Karim Elkady, a post-doctoral fellow with CSS, presented chapters from his book manuscript on state-building at two CSS Research and

On May 13, 2020 Burak Kadercan, associate professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College, presented several draft chapters from his new book, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict. His study builds on existing social constructivist research on territory and territoriality in international relations and political geography, and examines the interactive relationship between territory and war from conceptual, theoretical, and historical standpoints.

By Benjamin Denison

American efforts at democracy promotion and Russian allegations of American interference in Russian domestic politics are not new. As Russia continues to see regime change lurking behind democracy promotion efforts and other tools of American statecraft, I believe that the best way for the U.S. to move forward is to try to change the perception that it is uniquely interested in overthrowing the current regime in Moscow.

Will the Korean War’s Armistice Agreement see its 75th anniversary? It certainly shouldn’t. With a better, more realistic and diplomatically-minded set of signatories—that applies especially to the White House—it won’t.

Thomas Cavanna, a visiting assistant professor at The Fletcher School, presented a new version of his working paper on U.S.

By Zoltan Feher This article was first published by Global Security Review on May 26, 2020. György Spiró’s novel Captivity follows

Senior Research Fellow Polina Beliakova presented two new papers on civil-military relations at at CSS Research and Policy Seminars in

Nils Hägerdal presented his new working paper, “U.S. Military Intervention in Oil-Producing States,” at the CSS Research and Policy Seminar