In May, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, while calling Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to scrap conscription a ‘mistake,’ told an audience at Johns Hopkins University in the US: “I am convinced that Germany needs some kind of military conscription…Times have changed.”| SHTF Plan
How do cyber vulnerabilities impact modern warfare and statecraft? Craig Booth argues that the effectiveness of coercion, which relies on both the power to impose costs and the credibility of the threat, is weakened by vulnerabilities in digital and networked weapon systems. He joins host Darrell Driver to discuss how if an adversary believes they can hack, jam, or hijack U.S. capabilities, the ability to project power and influence their behavior diminishes. Booth notes that cyber risk is no...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
The crises of the twenty-first century demand conscious public control. But this power is conspicuously absent, on both right and left.| Damage
In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a program within the Department of Corrections that would allow incarcerated individuals to donate bone marrow or organs in exchange for a reduced sentence. The bill aimed not only to address the…| Blog of the APA
Coercion is both presumptively wrong and undermines the responsibility of the person coerced. How do these two features of coercion hang together, and what explains why? In this paper, Japa Pallikkathayil offers a rich and original account. She focuses on cases of “volitional” coercion (hereafter, simply coercion)—where one agent tries to alter another person’s choice—rather … Continue reading Japa Pallikkathayil, “The Possibility of Choice: Three Accounts of the Problem with C...| Political Not Metaphysical
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