September 11 fundamentally transformed United States foreign policy and shook the country as a whole. This transformation and shock was…

September 11 fundamentally transformed United States foreign policy and shook the country as a whole. This transformation and shock was…
In the midst of war, terrorism, and instability, Stephen Kontos was tasked with uniting a coalition to combat one of…
When terrorists struck Americans in Saudi Arabia in 2004, Washington and a global public wanted answers. In June, Al-Qaeda kidnapped…
Elizabeth Kvitashvili’s USAID career took her from Afghanistan to Honduras to Russia. She led efforts to provide humanitarian assistance amidst crisis…
Beginning in 1970 and spanning over a decade, the “Brigate Rosse” (Red Brigades) and other smaller groups incited a wave…
The U.S. focus on terrorism began to intensify in the late 1970s and 80s. However, it was often difficult to…
U.S. inter-agency coordination on countering terrorism was limited, for bureaucratic and technical reasons, prior to the mid-1980s. As hijackings and…
After George W. Bush’s 2006 meeting on the tarmac with Vladimir Putin, he famously declared “I looked the man in…
Elizabeth Jones became the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan in 1995. On July 3, 1988 an Iran Air flight was making…
In 1978, the Carter administration passed the Airline Deregulation Act, which deregulated the airline industry, stripping away federal control of…