Dr. Mark Stout sits down with Dr. Jason Ridler to talk about his book Mavericks of War: The Unconventional, Unorthodox Innovators and Thinkers, Scholars, and Outsiders Who Mastered the Art of War published in 2018. Dr. Ridler describes a cast of characters from T.E. Lawrence during World War I to the British pacifist Emma Sky who read more…
Dr. Mark Stout sits down with Dr. Donald Jensen to talk about their takeaways from this past summer’s overseas course, “European Security: Russian Challenge, Western Response.” What is Russia up to and is Putin a master strategist or merely a clever tactician? What does the Russian threat look like from Kiev and Tallinn? And what, read more…
The United States vitally depends on foreign partners as it fights terrorist groups around the world. However, those relationships often do not deliver what Washington thinks they should. In this Global Security Podcast, Mark Stout talks with Dr. Stephen Tankel about his new book With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on read more…
With the cleanup from Hurricane Harvey still in its early stages and with Hurricane Irma plowing its way through the Caribbean aimed at the continental United States, now is a good time to think about societal resilience. In this Global Security Podcast, Mark Stout talks with Dr. Meir Elran of the Institute for National Security read more…
Do al Qaeda and ISIL fight the way they do because of their understanding of Islam? Or do they have an understanding of Islam they do because they are fighting? What do they believe anyway and what sort of theological contortions did they have to go through to justify those beliefs? Dr. Shiraz Maher of read more…
Mark Stout discusses intelligence analysis with Cynthia Storer a veteran CIA analyst who teaches in the Global Security Studies and Intelligence programs. They discuss the role of intelligence analysis in the intelligence process, who makes a good analyst, how the field is evolving, and what to expect if you take her class.
For quite some time corruption has attracted attention because of its potential negative implications for economic growth, but can it also lead to instability and extremist violence? Sarah Chayes, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former special adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and award-winning journalist, discusses read more…
The National Security Council (NSC) Staff in its current role as an “honest broker” dates to the Nixon Administration, but what does it mean to be an “honest broker?” John Gans, who teaches American National Security for the MA in Global Security Studies, discusses his research on this subject with Program Director Mark Stout. Based read more…
Private military contractors — what some people call “mercenaries” — are controversial on land. But what happens when they go to the sea? On October 2, 2014, the Global Security Studies program hosted John-Clark Levin, co-author of Private Anti-Piracy Navies: How Warships for Hire are Changing Maritime Security, to discuss this topic. He described the ways read more…
Mark Stout sat down recently with Dr. Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College in London who also teaches “Radicalization and Deradicalization in Terror Networks” for us. The subject was Dr. Neumann’s research into the foreign fighters who go to Iraq and Syria to fight as part read more…