Abstract A unified Korean Peninsula will challenge U.S. strategy and policy toward the Asia-Pacific region. In this context, CSIS is conducted a 12-month study aimed…
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Summary The United States has never felt at home abroad. The reason for this unease, even after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is…
Summary America’s response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country’s longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to…
Abstract Just 15 years after the Cold War’s end, hopes of integrating Russia into the West have been dashed, and the Kremlin has started creating…
Summary This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would…
Summary While appearing to be more nationalistic and less reluctant to engage international security challenges, Japan continues to pursue a comprehensive strategy integrating its security…
Abstract Japan is undergoing profound changes that are empowering its political leadership at the expense of its bureaucracy. But rather than bringing about a clean…
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Summary Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship…
Summary The Chicago Council undertakes a large-scale public opinion study every two years that compares American and international public opinion on a wide range of…
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Summary The last decade has seen the United States involved in two wars, an ongoing worldwide struggle against terrorism, and more recently a severe economic…
Summary The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
Summary Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of ‘deterrence’ in favour of…
Summary This International Institutions and Global Governance program Working Paper argues that current U.S. political will to reduce nuclear dangers should be channeled into a…
Summary Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of…
Summary In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, professors Waltz and Sagan resume their well-known dialogue concerning nuclear proliferation and the threat…
