Abstract The United States shares with many Pacific powers both relief that the world returned to peace, after the greatest conflagration in world history, and pride…
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Abstract Most studies on the decision by the Republic of Korea (ROK) to send troops into combat in the Vietnam War share an assumption that the…
Abstract Why has the military dimension of the US-Japan relationship remained the central point of reference for Japanese foreign relations, despite the demise of the…
Summary Why do international orders lack systemic legitimacy? This study examines the developing relationship between the US and China and explores the ways in which…
Abstract In the late 1990s, as Russia’s economy descended into a death spiral— eventually culminating in the August 1998 crash of the ruble and the government’s…
Abstract This article examines how, in a global strategic context presided by the rise of Asia and the US rebalance towards that region, Europeans are…
Summary Since 2013, the US-led alliance triangle with Japan and South Korea has defied expectations. Drawing together articles commissioned from leading experts in all three…
Abstract How has the United States behaved historically toward friendly states with nuclear weapons ambitions? Recent scholarship has demonstrated the great lengths to which the…
Abstract April 5, 2015, marked the sixth anniversary of Barack Obama’s speech to the citizens of Prague, in which he highlighted “America’s commitment to seek…
Abstract It is manifestly in the American interest that nuclear weapons are never again used in war – but if they are, should the United…
Abstract The U.S. strategy for withdrawal of U.S./NATO forces from Afghanistan, nearing completion of its first and largest tranche, was officially delayed at least a…
Abstract Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s historic April visit to Washington capped the most significant two-year period in Japan’s defense reform in decades. Since his…
Abstract North Korea is a failed state waiting to happen. It imposes horrific privations on its own citizens as well as serious security threats on…
Abstract This article provides an overview both of the considerable makeover that relations between the United States and Myanmar have undergone since Naypyidaw ushered in…
Abstract The United States has gone to extraordinary lengths since the beginning of the nuclear age to inhibit—that is, to slow, halt, and reverse—the spread…
