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Article Review 157- “Wargaming for International Relations Research”

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 By Rachel Tecott

In “Wargaming for International Relations Research,” Erik Lin-Greenberg, Reid Pauly, and Jacquelyn Schneider present wargames as a method for international relations research.[1] The article defines and differentiates wargames from other methods, provides guidance for using wargames for research, and concludes with an agenda for future study. The article is a generative work that provides a…

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Article Review 156- “White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States.”

April 5, 2022March 31, 2022 By Jason M. Blazakis

The United States is inexorably linked to the stain of white supremacy. It is a stain that has been difficult to erase despite multiple inflection points and opportunities to reckon with America’s racist past. The Reconstruction Era of 1865 to 1877 that followed the Civil War provided the first opportunity for the United States to…

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Article Review 155 on “Leaning on Legionnaires:  Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers.”

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 By Matteo C.M. Casiraghi

In “Leaning on Legionnaires,” Elizabeth M.F. Grasmeder offers a much needed overview of the recruiting of legionnaires over the last two hundred years across the world. Along with providing an original dataset on state policies to enlist foreigners in their armed forces, a novel theoretical framework to think about the drivers of legionnaires recruiting, and…

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Article Review 154- “The Durability of a Unipolar System”

January 4, 2022January 2, 2022 By Ronan Tse-min Fu

In his recent article in Security Studies, Yuan-kang Wang tackles a vitally important question in international relations: is unipolarity durable?[1] Two opposing views can be derived from the extant literature. Declinists posit that unipolarity is doomed due to the formation of counter-unipolar balancing coalitions, the unipole’s imperial overstretch, and the uneven growth rate between the…

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Article Review 153 on “The Obama Administration and Syrian Chemical Weapons: Deterrence, Compellence, and the Limits of the “Resolve plus Bombs” Formula.”

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 By Doreen Horschig

In this article Wyn Bown, Jeffrey Knopf, and Matthew Moran examine Syria’s possession and use of chemical weapons (CW) and third-party response.  In this context, they assess how compellence succeeded in Syria when deterrent efforts had initially failed.  President Barack Obama had set a ‘red line’ that signaled U.S. commitment to punish the Syrian regime…

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Article Review 152 on “To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States.”

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 By James Igoe Walsh

States in competition with each other have powerful incentives to engage in deception.  Adversaries use deception to convince each other that their resolve is high and that they possess powerful military capabilities.[1] More puzzling is why states that are aligned with each other—which is understood as “a set of mutual expectations between two or more…

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Article Review 151 on “The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990”

November 11, 2021November 4, 2021 By Julie Garey

The November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in myriad discussions about German reunification.  In addition to questions about the domestic future of Germany, concerns over who would be responsible for Germany’s security and stability and with whom the new German state would ally persisted.  Marc Trachtenberg revisits the February 1990 meeting wherein United…

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Article Review 150- “Selective Wilsonianism”

October 7, 2021September 30, 2021 By Benjamin Denison

In America’s Mission, Tony Smith contends that the “central ambition of American foreign policy” since the Spanish-American war has been centered on promoting democracy, or in President Woodrow Wilson’s formulation, “making the world safe for democracy.”[1] Challenging this narrative, Arman Grigoryan argues in “Selective Wilsonianism,” that this ‘Kantian narrative’ that originates in liberal theory does…

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Article Review 149 on “Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition”

September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 By Alessio Patalano

Contested freedom of navigation, welcome back.  Absent from mainstream debates about the relevance of military power in international politics since the end of the Cold War, until recently naval power had come to embody the linear progression underwriting Francis Fukuyama’s ‘end of history.’[1] Since the United States had no major enemy left to fight as…

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Article Review 148 on “Peacemakers or Iron Ladies?”

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 By Manuela Scheuermann

It is a very common belief to perceive women as more peaceful than men.  Female stereotypes are connected to care, communication, tolerance and compassion.  The first wave of feminists promoted this ideal of not only peace loving but peace bringing women.[1]  These very traditional attributes of the female role model became even more politically relevant…

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