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Protecting the Heavens
On 11 January 2007, the People's Republic of China successfully flight tested an antisatellite (ASA
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Proliferation of Russian Military Equipment
Russia is flooding world markets with military equipment. This flood of equipment is acting like a
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Big Brother or Big Bully? Future Scenarios of the Role of the United States on the Geopolitical Stage
The geopolitical evolution of the US will play a pivotal role as the world struggles to address the
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Intergovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is emerging as a region of strategic importance. Intergovernmental Organizations
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How is MS-13 a Threat to US National Security?
Street gangs have been a regional problem in the United States for a long time, but today's gangs s
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Russian Elite Image of Iran
Since the late Soviet era, the presence of Iran has loomed large in the minds of the Russian elite.
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La Familia Drug Cartel
La Familia Michoacana burst onto the national stage on September 6, 2006, when ruffians crashed int
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Preparing for the Inevitable
Many lessons from the Multinational Force and Observer (MFO) mission to the Sinai and the Multinati
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Industrial Policy in Turkey
At a time when many advanced and emerging economies are adopting more active industrial policies, t
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Spatial Politics in Istanbul
Over the past decade, the AKP, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has decisively turned
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Reluctant Remilitarisation
While armed forces in several countries underwent deep transformations after the end of the Cold Wa
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Hard Power and Soft Power
Power is one of the more contestable concepts in political theory. In recent decades, scholars and
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Foreign Policy and a State's Hierarchy of Needs
The last 60 years saw a great change in United States involvement in the world. From an isolationis
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The Elephant in the Room
This paper will assess key challenges associated with implementing the goals of President Obama's 2
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Assessing SOUTHCOM's Role in US Foreign Policy in Latin America
The last decade has experienced an increased role of the military in shaping and implementing US fo
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Public Administration Theory
Routledge 出版What is theory? What do theorists do? Doctoral students and academics often engage with theory, but
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The Impact of the Increasing Pace of Technological Developments, Particularly in the Information Sector, on the Transatlantic Alliance
Within a complex security environment, NATO now faces an information technology revolution affectin
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Jerusalem
Although there are several stumbling blocks to peace, Jerusalem is the most central, critical and c
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Russian Nuclear Weapons
This book presents several essays analyzing Russia's extensive nuclear agenda and the issues connec
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China's Military Modernization
As China's power rises and its national interests expand, China will seek to maintain its own "free
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The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption
Routledge 出版This volume analyzes what China's rise means for the transatlantic community in a new age of disrup
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The End of Hegemony
The era of US global hegemony is drawing to a close. Within the next quarter century, revolutionary
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CSWMD Case Study Series 5
Since its inception in 1994, the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD Center) h
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Potential for Normal Political Relations Between the United States and Iran Following Presidential Elections in Each Country
With Presidential elections in both the United States and Iran occurring within eight months of eac
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Special Operations Forces Requirements for Africa Command
Africa holds growing geo-strategic importance and is a high priority of this Administration. It is
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A National Security Strategy for Sweden
National security strategies should entail all instruments of power and not just the military. Furt
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Korea and U.S. Security Strategy
The purpose of this paper is to examine the US security strategy in Northeast Asia in the post-Kore
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Strategic Communication and Public Affairs
Public Affairs and Strategic Communication are becoming increasingly more important in today's info
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The Fallacy of the Shiite Crescent and Arab Unity
Ever since King Abdullah II of Jordan quipped that the Middle East may soon see a Shiite Crescent s
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Unraveling the Persian Knot
In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini's indirect approach ignited existing socio-economic conditions during th
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Turkey and Iran
Appraises the factors affecting the power potential of Turkey and Iran in international affairs, wi
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India as a Responsible Nuclear Power
"After the tests of 1998, India has merely moved sideways from existential to minimum deterrence. F
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Evolution of China's Nuclear Capability
The strategic arms control process to reduce nuclear weapons and contain the proliferation of weapo
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO
NATO has been a "nuclear" alliance since its inception. Nuclear weapons have served the dual purpos
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The Diffusion of Military Technologies to Foreign Nations
The purpose of this work is to recommend the United States government maintain the defense technolo
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Operational Implications of Private Military Companies in the Global War on Terror
This monograph discusses the implications of private military companies (PMCs) in the global war on
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Understanding Measures of Effectiveness in Counterinsurgency Operations
Both the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy recently recognized that insu
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Does the NATO Decision Process Support the Rapid Response Capabilities of the NATO Response Force?
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new security environment, one that was more diverse, and more
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Leveraging U.S. Intelligence to Defeat Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization
According to the Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, in 2009 there were 6,567 drug-related homicides i
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US-China Military Engagement in the 21st Century
This research paper examines the current framework of military engagement between the US and China
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Economic Sanctions
Economic sanctions are a form of non-violent warfare that has been used more frequently over the pa
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Failing and Failed States
Since the end of the Cold War, Global security has been threatened more by weak nations than by dom
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NATO Relations With Ukraine
The two fold purpose of the paper is to discuss the reasons for the current status of relations wit
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INSS China Strategic Perspectives 4
The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is National Defense University's (NDU's) dedica
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Interpreting Chinese Cyber Attacks of 2007
Cyberspace is rapidly gaining acceptance in the US defense community as a warfighting domain on par
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Assessing the Capabilities and Limitations of Counter-Proliferation Operations Utilizing Remote Radiation Detection Devices
A subject of national importance that poses a major security challenge for the United States and it
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Ignoring the Present
Combat is no longer an idea of massed armies marching off to face a fielded foe. This conclusion ca
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International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East
This volume explores the international relations of today's Middle East, a region that has become i