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Tag: Militarism

On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.

Elaine Scarry

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

Erik Baker

Germany has responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, marking a new wave of militarization.

Stephen Milder

The militarization of gun culture in the United States reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule.

Chad Kautzer

Drone attacks and U.S. involvement in Pakistan.

Madiha Tahir

From drone strikes to counterinsurgency efforts, the work of the late historian Nasser Hussain highlights the importance of understanding the mechanics of the War on Terror, not just its effects.

Atiya Husain

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

Daniel Akihiro Iwama

Watch our release of the documentary short The Rifleman. Then read an interview with the filmmaker.

Sierra Pettengill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

U.S. political elites sold the United Nations to the public as a route to global peace. In reality they wanted it as a cover for militarization.

Sam Lebovic

In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

Aziz Rana, Aslı U. Bâli

Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it.

Barry R. Posen

Washington Post reporting exposed that U.S. operations in Afghanistan were horribly mismanaged, but even a well-run mission would have been doomed to fail.

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

More than simple racism or discrimination, it is built upon violent elimination.

Nikhil Pal Singh

The barrage of attacks that followed Trump’s decision to reduce the U.S. military presence in Syria obscures the decades-long bankruptcy of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

Rajan Menon, Andrew J. Bacevich

During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet the United States ended up with its own carceral state. 

Stuart Schrader

Ethics is long on beginning war but short on ending it.

Elad Uzan

The failures of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework.

Adom Getachew

With virtually no democratic oversight and over 6,500 missiles in the United States alone, the use of nuclear weapons is almost inevitable.

Rachel Ablow, Elaine Scarry

Why don’t we make movies about nuclear war anymore? 

Stephen Phelan

It reflects, like a funhouse mirror, a twisted image of U.S. imperialism.

Jeanne Morefield
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Trump has promised a Korean "peace regime." But whose peace is being insured? And who is subject to its imposition? 

Jessie Kindig

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