The global threat matrix confronting the United States has entered a new and perilous phase. The recent Shanghai Cooperation ...

SCOTUSBLOG editor Sarah Isgur compares the Trump Justice Department with last term during ABC's "This Week" roundtable: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Sarah, let me ask you about these prosecutions. We saw ...

The key to solving the Korea question lies not in negotiating with the Kim regime, but in helping Korean people in the North ...

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, ...

The era of great power “strategic competition” has seen deterrence as both a concept and operational objective return to a place of pre-eminence in national defense and strategic policy not seen since ...

PURPOSE: BUILD AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS TO STRENGTHEN DETERRENCE. Widespread alarmism about autonomous weapons has undermined U.S. military competitiveness. Autonomous weapons are not inherently unethical ...

Vol. 20, No. 1, The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories (Winter 2018), pp. 101-139 (39 pages) This article sheds ...

Of course, the contrast between messy reality and tidy theory is no refutation of a theory; it may simply represent a failure to apply the theory as systematically as it might have been. In the case ...