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America Needs a New Triad to Restore Its Eroding Deterrence
America Needs a New Triad to Restore Its Eroding Deterrence the United States faces a parallel strategic challenge with its conventional forces in the western Pacific
The Conventional Balance of Terror
In 1959, the American political scientist Albert Wohlstetter argued in these pages that the United States did not possess a sufficient second-strike capability to provide stable nuclear deterrence against the Soviet Union. A year later, the economist and strategist Thomas Schelling offered what has become the seminal definition of strategic nuclear stability.
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country*
Abstract For their empirical evaluation, several active research programs in economics and political science require data on ethnic groups across countries. “Ethnic group,” however, is a slippery concept. After addressing conceptual and practical obstacles, I present a list of 822 ethnic groups in 160 countries that made up at least 1 percent of the country population in the early 1990s. I compare a measure of ethnic fractionalization based on this list with the most commonly used measure.
Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict
AbstractResearch findings on the relationship between climate and conflict are diverse and contested. Here we assess the current understanding of the relationship between climate and conflict, based on the structured judgments of experts from diverse disciplines. These experts agree that climate has affected organized armed conflict within countries.
How Iraq Slid Into Civil War
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions NO GRACEFUL EXIT As sectarian violence spiked in Baghdad around last Thanksgiving, Bush administration spokespeople found themselves engaged in a strange semantic fight with American journalists over whether the conflict in Iraq is appropriately described as a civil war. It is not hard to understand why the administration strongly resists the label.
The big problem with the North Koreans isn’t that we can’t trust them. It’s that they can’t trust us.
What is the frightening situation between the North Korean regime of Kim Jong Un and the United States about? We have seen an escalation of words and actions suggesting possible war. But the North Koreans say, in so many words, that they just want security against attack by the United States. And members of the Trump administration, just like previous administrations, say they have no program for regime change in North Korea and simply want not to be threatened by its nuclear missiles.
Trump told the Russians that firing Comey took the pressure off. This is what he should have said instead.
Editors’ note: On Friday, the New York Times reported that during his Oval Office meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russian officials the day after he fired FBI Director James Comey, President Trump told his Russian visitors, “I faced great pressure because of Russia.
Deliberative Democracy
This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref. King, Preston 1998. Democracy and the persistence of power. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 1, Issue. 4, p. 93. Lynch, Marc 1998. Abandoning Iraq: Jordan's alliances and the politics of state identity. Security Studies, Vol. 8, Issue. 2-3, p. 347. Seippel, Ørnulf 1999.
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