The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is in the process of improving its nuclear forces as part of a larger modernization program. The ongoing modernization effort seems to include major new nuclear ...

Does deterrence actually work? In our international relations class, my students researched the track record of deterrence in several cases of international aggression, as well as examples where ...

While China has engaged in nuclear deterrence since it exploded its first nuclear weapon in 1964, it has increasingly focused on “space deterrence.” This is partly due to China’s growing space ...

Dr. Max Smeets is a senior researcher at ETH Center for Security Studies and affiliate at Stanford University CISAC. You can follow him @SmeetsMWE. Stefan Soesanto is a senior researcher in the Cyber ...

Anytime a Secretary of Defense returns from Hawaii, one braces for tough talk and the “coming war with China.” Thankfully, Lloyd Austin took a different approach. Last week he gave a speech ...

Deterrence remains a useful concept so long as policy-makers account for the changing nature of warfare in the twenty-first century Deterrence is one of those ‘accepted’ doctrines used by governments ...

Whether in the White House Situation Room or around the water cooler of cybersecurity companies, there can never be too many conversations about cyber deterrence. All too often though, the ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Since 2001, the Border Crossing Observatory estimates 840 people have died between Australia and Indonesia, including ...

Russian troops block the Ukrainian military base in Perevalne during its 2014 annexation of Crimea. UC Davis political scientists have received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to study when ...

How does a state achieve effective deterrence? Lithuania provides an example. Deterrence has always been a crucial element in ensuring one’s security. In classic international relations literature, ...

Non-stealthy, high-altitude, long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been instrumental to counterterrorism and counter-insurgency operations of the last decades, but a renewal of great ...

Jason Healey is senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and was a member of the Defense Science Board’s task force on cyber deterrence. You can ...