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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 57-71, Summer 2026.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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Is ballistic missile defence destabilising?
, 2007 Ballistic missile defence is becoming a source of tension in international security affairs.
Paul Dibb
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Missile defence and the transatlantic security relationship
, 2001 Ballistic missile defence has re-emerged since 1999 as a controversial issue on the transatlantic security agenda. The article examines this re-emergence. Three phases in the recent evolution of US missile defence policy from 1995-2001 are outlined.
Bowen, W Q; id_orcid
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BMD Under the Radar? Explaining Labour's Ballistic Missile Defence Policy 1997-2010. A Strategic-Relational Approach. [PDF]
, 2021 While in office from 1997 to 2010 the Labour government incorporated the US’s ballistic missile defence (BMD) system into the UK's defence policy.
Simpkin, James William
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Signals, Red Lines, and Collision: The Israel‐Iran Spiral and US Intervention
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 5-23, Summer 2026.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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Tales of the Shield: A Feminist Reading of Ballistic Missile Defence [PDF]
, 2003 Prior to September 11th – the date by which we now frame discussions – debates around missile defence, whether national or transnational, were framed around two central points: what I call the ‘can it work’ and ‘should we or should we not do it’ debates.
Masters, Cristina
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Localisation and Pre-calculation for Anti-missile Defence Shield System [PDF]
, 2016 One of the most important problems in anti-missile systems is localisation ambulatory missiles’ defence sites along with fixed missiles’ defence sites in best positions to destroy enemy’s missiles.
S. Aghdasi, Hadi +2 more
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Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 24-40, Summer 2026.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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The current state, problems and future of Germany's air and missile defence. OSW Commentary No. 105, 2013-04-10 [PDF]
, 2013 From German point of view, air and missile defence systems are of little relevance for the protection of Germany’s territory. However, they are seen as important for conducting ‘out of area’ operations, providing military assistance to allies, and for ...
Gotkowska, Justyna
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, 2017 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) as a strategy carries conflicting standpoints for the bearer and the non-bearer of BMD. For a bearer of BMD, it is an effort to protect the humankind from a nuclear holocaust and a move that may eventually lead towards ...
Mahroona Hussain Syed, Asim Ahmed
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