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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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Roundtable 10-32 on Taxing Wars: The American Way of War Finance and the Decline of American Democracy

July 29, 2019July 30, 2019 By Linda J. Bilmes, Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Matthew DiGiuseppe, Paul Poast, A. Trevor Thrall, Sarah E. Kreps, Joshua Rovner

The relationship between war, taxes, and public opinion has long interested scholars of democracy and international security. In theory the fiscal costs of war should restrain leaders from starting them, especially if those costs are born by the public on whose support they rely. According to Sarah Kreps, however, American leaders have not been constrained…

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Roundtable 10-31 on The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy

July 15, 2019December 24, 2020 By Michael C. Desch, Paul K. MacDonald, Sergey Radchenko, Kori Schake, Stephen M. Walt, Robert Jervis

I think it is fair to say that over the past hundred years most academic students of international politics have urged the United States to take a more active position in the world, one that was more commensurate with its economic power and stake in what was happening around the globe. Roughly a decade ago…

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Article Review 120 on “Would U.S. Leaders Push the Button? Wargames and the Sources of Nuclear Restraint.”

June 25, 2019June 16, 2019 By Jan Ludvik

“Would U.S. leaders push the button?” Reid B. C. Pauly provocatively asks in the title of his recent International Security article. We know from history that the answer to that question has been an almost unqualified no. To date, President Harry S. Truman remains the only world leader to have ordered nuclear weapons to be…

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Article Review 117 on “Killing Norms Softly: US Targeted Killing, Quasi-secrecy and the Assassination Ban.”

May 23, 2019May 2, 2019 By Genevieve Lester, Richard Lacquement, Jr.

How does a democratic (U.S.) government wield secrecy? This is the core question of Andris Banka and Adam Quinn’s “Killing Norms Softly: US Targeted Killing, Quasi-Secrecy and the Assassination Ban,” which advances a theory of how norms of secrecy can be changed to serve executive needs. Focusing on the case of targeted killing under both…

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