Many Americans have lost confidence in their country's energy security over the past several years. Because the United States is a net oil importer, and a substantial one at that, concerns about energy security naturally raise foreign policy questions. Some foreign policy analysts fear that...

Several scholars have tried to import arguments about selection effects from the literature on deterrence crises into the context of studies of economic sanctions. They claim that datasets of economic sanctions episodes oversample highly motivated target states, because less motivated targets...

Many pundits and leaders in the U.S. government hope to use the model of successful military innovation to stimulate innovation for green technologies – notwithstanding criticisms that defense technologies are often expensive and esoteric and sometimes fail to meet optimistic performance...