empowering of terrorist groups in the middle east is the product of numerous reasons. one of the most important of these reasons is the competition between regional powers and their use of the leverage of terrorist groups in order to put pressure on each other. furthermore, immature and wrong policies of great powers like: the united states in militarization of the region have provided new just...

The status and the treatment of detainees in the ‘war on terror’ is one of the major contentious topics in current transatlantic relations. This article aims to explain the reasons for transatlantic disunity on this issue as well as to assess its impact on the stability and the persistence of the transatlantic security community. I argue that divergent strategic cultures are the main source of ...

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Dr. Arthur Ding is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in Taipei. Dr. Ding received a doctoral degree in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1987. His research covers Chinese military and security policy, US-China relations, and international relations in East Asia. His book, China’s Changing Militar...

President Barack Obama has concluded that success in Afghanistan depends upon enhanced coordination along the entire range of national power. To achieve this, he has ordered former CIA officer Bruce Riedel, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and Undersecretary for Defense Policy Michele Flournoy to lead a review of US policy. As they work through the mechanics of military, diplomatic, and developmen...

Lieutenant General V.R. Raghavan was India’s Director General of Military Operations from 1992 to 1994. He is currently a Director at the Dehli Policy Group. Raghavan is the author of a number of books and articles, including India’s Search for Strategic Balance (Dehli Policy Group, 1996). This paper was written while the author was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and...

In 2002, the wife of a young U.S. Navy sailor was given the news that her fetus had no brain, a birth defect known as anencephaly (Wilson, 2010). This condition is not compatible with life, and, at 16 weeks of gestation, the couple decided not to continue the pregnancy. In fiscal 1977, over 25,000 abortions were performed in military facilities (Boonstra, 2010; Burrelli, 2008). However, in 2002...

Using survey data from large national samples of military and civilian households, this analysis provides evidence on the differences in financial decision-making and outcomes between comparable civilian and military members, between members of the military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) and between members of the Service components (Active Duty, Reserves and National Guard). I fi...