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Roundtable 11-11 on Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower

February 21, 2020January 22, 2021 By Christopher Layne, Emma Ashford, Mauro Gilli, Joshua Shifrinson, Michael Beckley

The debate about contemporary geopolitics, and American grand strategy, is shaped by two competing narratives: unipolar stability vs. rising China. The unipolar stability narrative holds that the distribution of power in the international system remains unipolar, and will remain so for a very long time.1 The rising China narrative holds that American power is in…

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Article Review 131 on “Hatchet or Scalpel?  Domestic Politics, International Threats, and US Military Spending Cuts, 1950-2014.”

February 20, 2020February 13, 2020 By Shoon Murray

In this tightly-written and richly-sourced article, Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Kaija Schilde offer a theory to explain why some U.S. presidents have been able to make targeted military spending cuts according to strategic needs whereas others were forced into blunt across-the-board cuts to assuage entrenched domestic interests. Although developed from U.S. cases, the authors expect…

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Policy Series 3-1- Reviewing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2020

February 7, 2020February 1, 2020 By Fabian Lüscher

The 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the tenth such event, will be held from 27 April to 22 May in New York. One of the most important and controversial pillars of the global nuclear order will be evaluated there. The NPT was opened for…

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Roundtable 11-9 on Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy

January 27, 2020January 22, 2021 By Elizabeth N. Saunders, Andrew J. Coe, Matthew Fuhrmann, Julia Macdonald, Jayita Sarkar, Nicholas L. Miller

The adjective ‘timely’ is perhaps overused, but in the case of Nicholas Miller’s Stopping the Bomb—the subject of this roundtable review by four excellent scholars of nuclear politics—it is well-earned. Miller’s book was published in the spring of 2018, just as President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, and…

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Article Review 130 on “Partner Politics: Russia, China, and the Challenge of Extending US Hegemony after the Cold War.”

December 20, 2019December 12, 2019 By Huiyun Feng

There are good reasons to study Russia, China, and U.S. hegemony now. Facing common threats from the West, Russia and China have been moving closer since the 2010s. Are they going to finally form an alliance against the United States.? Will these rising powers seriously challenge or shake up the liberal world order that is…

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Roundtable 11-8 on The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal

December 17, 2019December 24, 2020 By Susan Colbourn, James Goldgeier, Bruce W. Jentleson, James Lebovic, Elizabeth C. Charles and James Graham Wilson, William J. Burns

In The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal, William Joseph Burns writes about his life and times in the hope that his reflections—and regrets—will be helpful to the next generation of diplomats. Diplomacy “is by nature an unheroic, quiet endeavor,” as the author puts it, “less swaggering than…

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Article Review 129 on “Why Did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003?”

November 14, 2019November 7, 2019 By Jordan Tama

In this important article, Ahsan Butt advances an innovative argument for why the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Countering other common explanations, Butt argues that the United States was not motivated by a desire to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), promote democracy in the Middle East, or satisfy pro-war domestic…

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Article Review 128 on “Vicarious Retribution in US Public Support for War against Iraq.”

October 17, 2019October 11, 2019 By Shana Kushner Gadarian

Sixteen years after the beginning of the Iraq War, American public support for the war remains a puzzle. Why would the public, scarred by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and overwhelmingly supportive of sending troops to Afghanistan to capture al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and fight terrorism,[1] be willing to use military force on a different…

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Roundtable 11-1 on The Evolution of the South Korea-United States Alliance

September 16, 2019September 15, 2019 By Stephan Haggard, Brad Glosserman, David C. Kang, Mason Richey, Andrew Yeo, Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig

No president has cast as much uncertainty over American alliances as Donald Trump. Despite the assiduous damage control of his rotating secretaries of State and Defense and national security advisors, comments from the chief executive matter; uncertainty has increased. Moreover, the unexpected willingness of the president to undertake direct, high-level contacts with North Korean leader…

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Policy Forum 23 on the 2019 Kashmir Crisis

September 3, 2019January 23, 2021 By Stacie Goddard, Christopher Clary, Asfandyar Mir, Ayesha Ray

On 5 August 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government announced the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which granted the state of Jammu and Kashmir autonomy within India, including a separate constitution, a state flag and control over internal administrative matters. At the same time, Modi’s government also abolished Article 35A, which…

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