When plunging into war, hope generally triumphs over experience. The past—the quiet statistical tabulation of what happened when this was tried before—tends to be ignored in the heat of angry oratory ...

AS a graduate student at Harvard, one of the closest friends I had was the family of my Singaporean classmate, Chung Han Lai, a Singaporean Navy officer. We were both Edward S. Mason Fellows and ...

Hearts of Iron IV offers a gritty military-industrial complex experience, focusing on victory at all costs. Stellaris allows players to craft a sci-fi empire with a unique societal blueprint among the ...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was the One Lucky Guy on Outnumbered today, and decided to play around with the definition of the word “nation-building.” “If a nation expresses a desire to become a democratic ...

Mozambique’s long history of nation-building is still unfinished. The country is still pursuing a cohesive national identity, stable institutions, and the economic foundations that would unify diverse ...