Center for Strategic Communication

Diplomacy still works – or does it?

By Patricia H. Kushlis (The following speech by Patricia H. Kushlis on the future of Diplomacy was delivered at OASIS (Albuquerque, NM) on Monday, February 4, 2013) On Thursday, January 24th John Kerry sailed through his hour long hearing in front of former colleagues...

It’s a Safer, Way More Complicated World Out There

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on September 28, 2012. (Keith Bedford/Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s regular column in The Atlantic. … at least...

Wanted: Transparency in the Nuclear Budget

Even in today’s hyper-partisan environment, there’s one thing policymakers on both sides of the aisle agree on: eliminating wasteful defense spending is a crucial part of solving the nation’s fiscal crisis. There’s just one problem: no one knows how big the nuclear...