Abstract The United States faces multiple national security challenges, but in the longer sweep of history it is our response to the rise of Chinese…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract Conventional wisdom argues that President Obama inherited a U.S. reputation that was badly damaged around the world. While this may hold true in Europe,…
Abstract In East Asia the United States cultivated a “hub and spokes” system of discrete, exclusive alliances with the Republic of Korea, the Republic of…
Abstract The continued relevance of the U.S. bilateral alliance system in Asia appears most tested by questions of regional architecture. International relations and areas studies…
Summary World Out of Balance is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the constraints on the United States’ use of power in pursuit of its…
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Summary The United States’ nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear…
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Abstract The maintenance of safe and secure sea lanes, particularly those that link the United States with its partners in the Indian and Pacific Oceans,…
Summary Through market excesses and shortages, complicated by periodic anxiety over the exhaustion of fossil fuel sources, balancing the international quest for oil with reduction…
Summary Energy plays a vital role in Americans’ lives and in the U.S. economy as a whole, particularly in the provision of electricity, transportation, heating…
Abstract Negotiating with North Korea is all about contradictions. What can be important one day can become unimportant the next. A position they hold stubbornly…
Summary This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Abstract The “Great Triangle” of the Asia-Pacific region formed by the United States, Russia, and China is particularly important in both geopolitical and militarystrategic terms.…
Summary Five Central Asian states emerged out of the Soviet Union’s Central Asian republics in 1991. Although U.S. policymakers presumed that Iran would inevitably sweep…
Summary Edited by Robin Wright, this compendium provides top-level briefings by 50 seasoned experts on Iran (both Iranian and Western authors) from some twenty foreign…
Summary Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration’s emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit…
