Home, Again Home, Again Stephanie Schwartz Refugee Return and Post-Conºict Violence in Burundi In the mid-1990s, hun- dreds of thousands of refugees returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the war ªnally over. Amid their homecoming, a…
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How to Enlarge NATO
How to Enlarge NATO How to Enlarge NATO M.E. Sarotte The Debate inside the Clinton Administration, 1993–95 The expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to include Central and Eastern European (CEE) states represents…
Weaponized Interdependence
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A Flawed Framework
A Flawed Framework A Flawed Framework Charles L. Glaser Why the Liberal International Order Concept Is Misguided Policymakers and scholars in the United States worried about growing threats to the Western in- ternational order well…
India’s Counterforce Temptations
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Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet
Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet Why China Has Not Caught Up Yet Military-Technological Superiority and the Limits of Imitation, Reverse Engineering, and Cyber Espionage Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli Can adversaries of the…
The Power of Nations
The Power of Nations The Power of Nations Michael Beckley Measuring What Matters What makes some countries more powerful than others? This is the most important question international relations.1 Scholars need a for the study…
The Rarity of Realpolitik
The Rarity of Realpolitik The Rarity of Realpolitik What Bismarck’s Rationality Reveals about International Politics Brian Rathbun Realpolitik, the pur- suit of vital state interests in a dangerous world that constrains state behavior, is at…
Escalation through Entanglement
Escalation through Entanglement Escalation through Entanglement How the Vulnerability of Command-and-Control Systems Raises the Risks of an Inadvertent Nuclear War James M. Acton The 2018 U.S. Nuclear Posture Review contains a highly consequential threat that…
Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed
Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed Power, Habit, and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment Patrick Porter Why has U.S. grand strategy persisted since the end of the…