The proposition that democracies are more peaceful than autocracies has spawned a huge literature. Much of the relevant quantitative research has shown that democracies indeed rarely, if ever, fight each other, although they are not necessarily less bellicose than autocracies in general. This...

This analysis compares the incidence of war involvement by countries with comparatively more and less political freedom. It examines the proposition that political freedom promotes peace, as suggested by R. J. Rummel, in its monadic form. Its results indicate that this proposition tends to be...

November 2009 - survey after survey shows Americans, in general, to be among the world’s most optimistic people. Yet from the inception of the Center for Public Leadership’s National Leadership Index in 2005 through last year, Americans’ confidence in their leaders marched steadily...

Protection System Hidden Failures (PSHF)-induced sequential events have been shown to have higher impact and greater likelihood of segueing to major outages. Hence, a pragmatic mitigation approach is to intercede in the outage-related successive event stream. From a cyber perspective, as...