research
Shielding the Republic: Barack Obama and the Jeffersonian Tradition of American Foreign Policy
Author(s): Clarke, M, Ricketts, ADate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
President Barack Obama’s foreign policy has confounded critics from both the left and right in American politics. This analysis argues that this is because Obama’s foreign policy exhibits affinities with the least prominent of the four traditions of American foreign policy identified by Walter...
The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s New Grand Strategy?
Author(s): Clarke, MDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
Live and Learn: Availability Biases and Beliefs about Military Power
Author(s): Cohen, MDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
Do leaders learn more about military force from firsthand experience with the armed forces or their nation’s last war? Despite a resurgence of interest in the effects of leaders and their beliefs on international conflict and war, we still know little about which mechanisms cause what beliefs. I...
Ethics in an Age of Surveillance
Author(s): Henschke, ADate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
Duties to Defend: Ethical Challenges of Cyber-Defense
Author(s): Henschke, ADate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear Crises
Author(s): Cohen, MDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering The New Era of Deterrence
Author(s): Cohen, M, Kim, SDate of publication: 2017
Publication type: Research
China's Frontier Regions: Ethnicity, Economic Integration and Foreign Relations
Author(s): Clarke, M. Smith, D.Date of publication: 2016
Publication type: Research
China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are...
One Belt, One Road and China’s Emerging Afghanistan Dilemma
Author(s): Clarke, MDate of publication: 2016
Publication type: Research
This article argues that China’s approach to Afghanistan since the end of the Cold War has been shaped by the desire both for security in Xinjiang and for geopolitical advantage in Central Asia. While Beijing’s Xinjiang calculus was ascendant from 1991 to 2001, since 2001 a broader geopolitical...
Beijing’s March West: Opportunities and Challenges for China’s Eurasian Pivot
Author(s): Clarke, MDate of publication: 2016
Publication type: Research
China’s Eurasian frontiers have emerged as a major factor in Beijing’s foreign policy through President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy. The article argues that this strategy has been given impetus by the shifting geopolitical landscape in Central Asia resulting from the U.S. withdrawal...