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Is the United Nation's Current Policy in Iraq Effective? Evaluation of Economic Sanctions and the Oil-for-Food Program
The United Nations policy toward Iraq, consisting of economic sanctions and what has come to be kno
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Focus Targeting in a COIN Environment
Senior military leaders in Afghanistan recognize that there is a systemic problem in how our intell
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Post-Cold War American Foreign Policy
This study assesses American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. As the world's sole supe
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Re-Shaping U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Cuba
President Bush's comment refers to the present crisis in the Middle East, but could just as easily
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How Do U.S./Georgia Relations Affect U.S./Russia Relations? Can the U.S. Have Both?
U.S./Georgia/Russia Relations The United States, since its inception, has collaborated with other c
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Patterns of War Termination
This research uses an advanced statistical technique to expand upon the current understanding of wa
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The China-Taiwan Conundrum
United States relations with the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) have been tainted by the long-sta
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When is Russia Joining NATO? Russian Security Orientation in the Twenty-First Century
This study seeks to analyze Russia's security situation, its relationship with NATO and if NATO can
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Norway's Security Challenges in the New World
Norway has over the past century developed its security policy based on how it, as a small state in
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The US, Turkey, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
The intent of this paper is to provide a general framework to be used as a road map by the US to su
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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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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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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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Strategic Communication and Public Affairs
Public Affairs and Strategic Communication are becoming increasingly more important in today's info
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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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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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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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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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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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Spatial Politics in Istanbul
Over the past decade, the AKP, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has decisively turned
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Deterring Iran's Nuclear Program
By leveraging their own source of influence and rethinking their charter, Gulf Co-operation Council
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The South China Sea
The economic, political and military influence of China continues to grow at a rapid rate. As China
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Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy
This monograph analyzes Brazilian grand strategy under President Luiz In獺cio Lula da Silva. During
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China's Nuclear Forces
Recent books and journal articles published in China provide new insights into nuclear doctrine, op
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Proliferation Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Insecurity
In present discussions on international security the issue of "Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Des
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Why Efforts to Centralize the US Intelligence Community Fail
Prior to World War II, the formal collection and exploitation of foreign intelligence in the United
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Bush's New World Order
The phrase "new world order" has been widely used on the political scene since first publicly coine
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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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An Introduction to International Negotiation
Routledge 出版This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the international negotiation system - its key e
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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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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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Jerusalem
Although there are several stumbling blocks to peace, Jerusalem is the most central, critical and c
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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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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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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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Industrial Policy in Turkey
At a time when many advanced and emerging economies are adopting more active industrial policies, t
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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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Intergovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is emerging as a region of strategic importance. Intergovernmental Organizations
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United Nations and Military Interventions
Numerous UN military interventions have taken place in the post-Cold War era. Some stand out as fai
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Strategic Mobility, the Force Projection Army, and the Ottawa Landmine Treaty
Current and emerging United States Army doctrine places great emphasis on the concepts of strategic
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The European Theater Missile Defense Program
"One of the primary impacts of the Gulf War on Western opinion was to underline the reality of a ba
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The International Dimension of Culture and Conflict
This CADRE Paper contains the edited transcript of The International Dimension of Culture and Confl
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Russia in the Arctic
The Arctic has returned with a vengeance as an area of international contention. Beginning in 2007,
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Western Balkans as Base for Radical Islamists
This thesis addresses the primary research question: Are the Balkans becoming a European sanctuary
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Will Japan Rearm?
This thesis examines the possibility of Japanese rearmament using a comparative case study approach
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Resurgent Russia and America's Vital Interests
This research paper addresses the relevance of Russia's resurgence as an economic, political and mi