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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
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Respecting the Threat
This paper examines how Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez threatens U.S. interests in Venezuela and
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When Reality Bites
The purpose of this research paper is to show that the five Arabian Gulf States of Bahrain, Kuwait,
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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