Iran in Latin America: Threat or Axis of Annoyance?
Senior Fellow Douglas Farah's analysis of the debate over the level of threat posed by Iran's expanding diplomatic, trade and military presence in Latin America, and its stated ambition to continue to broaden these ties.
What Extremists Say About Jihad
IASC Visiting Fellow Stephen Coughlin's thesis draws on the most important Islamic scholars to describe the relationship betweem Jihad and Islamic law.
Salafists, China and West Africa's Growing Anarchy
Douglas Farah explores the challenges the U.S. faces in Western Africa from Islam, China and a growing dependence on oil and natural gas from the Gulf of Guinea.
China’s Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach
China's rise to global economic and strategic eminence, with the potential for achieving pre-eminence in the greater-Asian region, is one of the defining characteristics of the post-Cold War period. For students contemplating a broad range of business, social science, journalist or military science curricula, it is critical to possess a basic understanding of the military-strategic basis and trajectory of a Rising China. Read More...
Merchant of Death
IASC Senior Fellow Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way mondern warfare is fought.
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Bolivia on the Brink
June 17th, 2009
When Evo Morales won an overwhelming victory in Bolivia's December 2005 presidential elections, it signaled a historic new chapter in the nation's political history. For the first time in decades a presidential candidate won an outright electoral majority, garnering almost 54 percent of the vote. Morales, an indigenous peasant who remains the head of the cocalero (coca growers) union, inherited a country that had lived through three years of permanent crisis and the resulting deep disillusionment with the traditional political parties. Those promises of inclusive governance have been breached almost from the beginning of the MAS government, leading Bolivia to its worst political crisis since the hard-fought return to democratic rule in 1982.
The Implications of China’s Naval Modernization for the United States
June 11th, 2009
Recent statements by paramount leader Hu Jintao and others indicate that China is now signaling its political intent, and indeed is beginning to assemble the naval forces, to begin to defend China’s wide ranging interests further abroad. However, China does not provide for its citizens or for foreign parties, a clear explanation of its evolving maritime interests, naval doctrines and naval equipment modernization programs. Repeated calls for greater military transparency are largely ignored because the ruling Communist Party shares China’s historical aversion to such, and it does not have to provide expansive details of the doctrine, strategies or hardware modernization objectives of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) to an adversarial legislature or press.
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