China’s Party-State Capitalism and Global Backlash China’s Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash From Interdependence to Insecurity Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire, and Kellee S. Tsai Efforts to guarantee national security in both China and countries…
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Dangerous Changes
Dangerous Changes Dangerous Changes Kendrick Kuo When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness Conventional wisdom suggests that innovation consistently improves military power. Militaries that oppose it invite defeat, but those that innovate secure victory. Innovation is…
U.S. Policy Choices in the South China Sea
U.S. Policy Choices in the South China Sea How Much Risk Should the United States Run in the South China Sea? M. Taylor Fravel and Charles L. Glaser China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea…
Narratives and War
Narratives and War Narratives and War C. William Walldorf Jr. Explaining the Length and End of U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan In May 2017, amid yet another intense national debate about increasing troops in Afghanistan,…
Soldiers’ Dilemma
Soldiers’ Dilemma Soldiers’ Dilemma Renanah Miles Joyce Foreign Military Training and Liberal Norm Conºict On April 14, 1979, the “rice riots” broke out in Monrovia, Liberia. Several thousand protestors took to the streets in frustration…
Why Drones Have Not Revolutionized War
Why Drones Have Not Revolutionized War Why Drones Have Not Revolutionized War The Enduring Hider-Finder Competition in Air Warfare Antonio Calcara, Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli, Raffaele Marchetti, and Ivan Zaccagnini Over the past two de-…
Defending the United States
Defending the United States Defending the United States Jaganath Sankaran and Steve Fetter Revisiting National Missile Defense against North Korea U.S. policymakers have long feared the emergence of a North Korean intercontinental ballis- tic missile…
Prediction and Judgment
Prediction and Judgment Prediction and Judgment Avi Goldfarb and Jon R. Lindsay Why Artiªcial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War There is an emerg- ing policy consensus that artiªcial intelligence (AI) will transform…
Opportunistic Repression
Opportunistic Repression Opportunistic Repression Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19 Donald Grasse, Melissa Pavlik, Hilary Matfess, and Travis B. Curtice This article considers whether governments have used the COVID-19 pandemic to cement…
Wartime Commercial Policy
Wartime Commercial Policy Wartime Commercial Policy and Trade between Enemies Mariya Grinberg Conventional wisdom suggests that trade is the ªrst casualty of war.1 Because the gains from trade can be converted into military capabilities, trading…