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Japan-North Korea relations since the North-South Summit: stuck in an ever deepening and divisive rut [PDF]
, 2002 Japan-North Korea relations have slipped into an ever deepening and divisive rut since the North-South summit of 2000, with little prospect of significant improvement in the near term.
Hughes, Christopher W.
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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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Japan's new security agenda [PDF]
, 2007 New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has only been in office since late September, but already the outlines of his administration are becoming clearer, both in expected and unexpected directions.
Hughes, Christopher W., Krauss, Ellis S.
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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
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Expanding alliance: ANZUS cooperation and Asia–Pacific security [PDF]
, 2014 Is an alliance conceived as a bulwark against a resurgence of Japanese militarism and which cut its military and intelligence teeth in the Cold War is still relevant to today’s strategic concerns?
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Signals, Red Lines, and Collision: The Israel‐Iran Spiral and US Intervention
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract The Iran War erupted in February 2026 without UN authorization, and Washington's rationales—Iranian nuclear ambitions, missile capacity, and proxy threats—map more closely onto Israeli than US security interests. Why have we seen two major conflicts between these belligerents in less than one year?
Buğra Sari
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Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract The US‐Israeli war on Iran appears to demonstrate the perils of a transactional diplomacy that dismisses the rules‐based, liberal international order in pursuit of American dominance. Much of the growing literature assumes transactional diplomacy will be a temporary, Trump‐driven departure from traditional, values‐based statecraft. By contrast,
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler DergisiThe Ballistic Missile Defence System (BMDS), like any system, has its effectiveness, which must be studied, because it determines the extent to which the goal of this system's existence is achieved.
Kenan Özden, Orhan Akzade
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Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Korean President Park Geun‐hye's 2016 decision to authorize the deployment of the U.S. Forces Korea THAAD system—and Beijing's subsequent economic and diplomatic coercion—marked a decisive inflection point in Seoul's China policy.
Joel Atkinson
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