Defense and Security

    • Commentary

    Reinvigorate Nuclear Nonproliferation

    The Iraq war’s monopoly on America’s political energy has now stretched to five years. During what is an eon in a time of fast-moving global change, a number of international security problems have grown into full-blown crises. Unless a major effort is made to reverse current trends, the fissures now spreading across the global nonproliferation regime could easily become the worst of these crises.

    • Commentary

    China's Latest Export: Soft Power

    It is not China's military that threatens America right now; the U.S. military remains vastly technologically superior to the People's Liberation Army. Rather, it is China's growing long-term defense relationships with other nations that should worry Washington.

    • Commentary

    China's Military Space Strategy

    China's recent antisatellite test was not a protest against U.S. space policy, but rather, was part of a loftier strategy to combat U.S. military superiority and one that China will not trade away in any arms-control regime.

    • Research

    Getting Russia Right

    This book sheds new light on our understanding of contemporary Russia, providing Western audiences with an insider’s explanation of how the country has arrived at its current position and how the United States and Europe can deal with it more productively.

    • Multimedia

    The Revival of Russia's Military Power

    Vladimir Putin's open attempts to reassert Russia's position as a world power have been met with trepidation from the international community. Further, Russia faces domestic constraints, both economic and military, that will complicate Putin's efforts.

    • Multimedia

    Death Toll in Iraq Suicide Bombings Reaches 250

    As political instability continues to plague the Iraqi government, a more inclusive process that includes both groups outside the government inside Iraq and Syria and Iran is needed.

    • Research

    The Taiwanese Nuclear Case: Lessons for Today

    • William Burr
    • August 09, 2007

    While the U.S. and its allies and associates are trying to dissuade Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability, newly declassified documents on U.S.-Taiwan relations during the 1970s show what a successful, mostly secret, campaign against a national nuclear program looks like.

    • Commentary

    The Wrong Way to Contain Iran

    The U.S. plan to sell over $20 billion worth of weaponry to Arab allies, to counter Iran's ascendance, attempts to contain Iran and force it to spend money on an arms race instead of developing its economy, intimidating it into bankruptcy. One major flaw in this plan is its failure recognize that Iran's growing influence is not due to hard power but to its use of soft power and militias.

    • Commentary

    China's Space Weapons

    On Jan. 11, 2007, a Chinese medium-range ballistic missile slammed into an aging weather satellite in space. The resulting collision not only marked Beijing's first successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test but, in the eyes of many, also a head-on collision with the Bush administration's space policies.

    • Event

    Chinese Military Modernization and Taiwan's Security

    A launch for the new book Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan’s Security edited by Michael D. Swaine, Andrew N. D. Yang, and Evan S. Medeiros with Oriana Skylar Mastro, was held.

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