Global leaders must carefully craft a new way to approach international security challenges that will allow them to trim costly defense programs while still maintaining a modern security apparatus.

Given the real risk of potential future biological attacks, the United States must be able to better assess the bioweapons threat, develop stronger tracking mechanisms, and implement a system to protect the civilian population.

State-sponsored assassination is on the rise worldwide. Aside from questions of moral justification and legality, political assassination also brings to the fore practical policy considerations, not least the law of unintended consequences.