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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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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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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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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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Strategic Communication and Public Affairs
Public Affairs and Strategic Communication are becoming increasingly more important in today's info
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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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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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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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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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Coercive Complementarity
This study explores the complementary nature of the economic and military instruments of power in c
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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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A Study of Central Asia to Identify Future Threats to Regional Stability
The breakup of the former Soviet Union led to the independence of 11 states called the Commonwealth
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China-Latin America Military Engagement
This monograph examines Chinese military engagement with Latin America in five areas: (1) meetings
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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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China-ASEAN Relations
The author traces the evolution of China-ASEAN relations since the early 1990s and examines some of
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Right Sizing the People's Liberation Army
This volume addresses how the leadership of China and the PLA view what size of PLA best meets Chin
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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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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 tu
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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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Blue Horizons Alternative Futures Resurgent Russia
In August 2007, Major General Pavel Androsov, Commander of the Russian Strategic Bomber Force, anno
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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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Tribalism and Democracy in Libya
Routledge 出版This book examines the political and social role of tribes in post-Gaddafi Libya, focusing on the c
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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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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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Implications of the U.S. War on Terrorism for U.S.-China Policy
The catastrophic terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 (9/11) provide both challenges and opportun
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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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The Proliferation Security Initiative
This Air University research paper is an examination of the Proliferation Security Initiative. Thro
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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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NATO-Russia Relations
Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on America, it is no surprise that combating glob
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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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Arms Control and European Security
The following three papers comprise one of the panels from a conference on U.S.-Russia relations th