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End Game: Rethinking the War on Terror
(2014)The United States is currently engaged in one the longest and costliest wars in its history. In the thirteen years since the devastating attacks on 9/11, the United States has waged war against al Qaeda and ideology of ... -
Energy and climate change: Nonpartisan policies for the next U.S. President
(2019)The world currently stands at a crossroads in terms of its energy future. The two choices laid before us could not be more stark. Either mankind can continue to burn fossil fuels at an astonishing rate and suffer the ... -
Equatorial North: Centering the Arctic in Global and Local Security
(2013)As Canada prepares to chair the Arctic Council (2013-2015) now is both a strategic and essential time to reassess political, economic and social matters pertaining to the Arctic region. Frequently considered a barometer ... -
Establishing the Department of Climate Change: In Defense of a Consolidated Federal Climate Effort
(5/15/2020)Climate change is the defining crisis of the Anthropocene, and the threat it poses cannot be overstated. The impacts of climate change, both direct and as a result of its capacity for threat amplification, will be felt ... -
European Defense: Strategic Choices for 2030
(5/15/2020)The rise of great power competition and the erosion of a rules-based order pose a growing threat to Europe’s prosperity and security. Because of this changing environment, the European Union needs to enhance its security ... -
Evolving US Cybersecurity Policy: A Multi-stakeholder Approach
(2016)The connectivity of information systems and networks, and the increasing usage of the Internet have opened individuals and governments to new types of vulnerabilities necessitating the rapid development of cybersecurity ... -
Explaining Opposition Failure in Japan: Institutions, Party Fragmentation, and the Rural-Urban Divide
(5/15/2020)Japan’s democracy poses a unique question that scholars have been struggling to answer. Japan is a democratic country, and yet the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled the country almost continuously since 1955, despite ... -
Extremist Use of Social Media: Balancing Privacy and National Cybersecurity
(2017)Because the realm of cybersecurity is constantly changing, there is a disconnection today between government and industry on the issues of privacy and national security. Industry and government must balance social media ... -
Finding Common Ground in the Puget Sound: Tulalip Tribes, Millennials and the Environment
(2017)The Jackson School of International Studies Task Force has created a strategic communications plan tied with a digital story with the goal of communicating tribal treaty rights and Tulalip Tribes-led environmental recovery ... -
Food Matters: U.S. Food Policy for the 21st Century
(2012)Global food security today is on uncertain ground, with countries, organizations, and individuals still scrambling to respond to the 2007-08 food crisis. Global attention has been fixed on looming structural challenges ... -
From International Supply Chains to Local Consumption: Eliminating Labor Trafficking from all Companies in Washington State
(2015)Recent estimates suggest that there are 21 million people who are victims of human trafficking, forced labor, and slavery around the world. Of those 21 million, private individuals or enterprises exploit 19 million victims; ... -
The Future of U.S. Democracy Promotion: Strategies for a Sustainable Fourth Wave of Democratization
(2011)U.S. democracy promotion has come under scrutiny in the last two decades. The recent third wave of democratization in the 1990s and 2000s has come to an end, leading to a shift towards authoritarianism. Meanwhile, American ... -
Germany and the Baltic Sea Region: Proposals for the New Federal Government
(2018)The Baltic Sea Region (BSR), consisting of Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, has increasingly become a theater for confrontation between Russia and the West. As the largest ... -
Hacking Democracy: Cybersecurity and Global Election Interference
(2018)As the global community enters a new digital era, the increase of social connectivity, the proliferation of online hostile actors, and the deliberate obfuscation of media pose new challenges to democratic processes around ... -
Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
(2015)Ever since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there have been complaints that the Declaration is not culturally sensitive. In 1981, a group of Islamic scholars proposed the Universal Islamic ... -
Humanitarian Aid under Stress: Assessing the Role of NGOs
(2019)Humanitarian NGOs currently face many challenges that inhibit their ability to deliver aid and place the humanitarian principles under stress. The politicization of aid by both donor and host governments has influenced the ... -
The International Criminal Court: Confronting challenges on the path to justice
(2013)Since the Rome Statute entered into force in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) has encountered many challenges, undermining its legitimacy and credibility in the international community. This report ... -
International Cybersecurity: De-escalating tensions in a digital Era
(2019)Within the last decade, nation-states and their populations have experienced an exponential rise in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. Cyberattacks are an attractive addition to traditional warfare for adversaries, ... -
Ippen Dron, All of Us Together: A collection of Tools to Address U.S. Nuclear Colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(2017)We are a group of 19 students in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at The University of Washington. We have dedicated 10 weeks to looking at the many wrongs produced by the U.S. government's nuclear ...