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The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

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Negotiating the New START Treaty

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The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy

Oriana Skylar Mastro

Journal Article

During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting China’s claims in the South China Sea. This essay evaluates PLA...
Does the Noncombatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? A Debate

Scott D. Sagan, Benjamin A. Valentino, Charli Carpenter, Alexander H. Montgomery

Journal Article

Our 2015 survey experiment—reported in the 2017 International Security article “Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran”—asked a representative sample of Americans to choose between continuing a ground invasion...
The U.S. may be close to a peace deal in Afghanistan. Here are 3 big takeaways.

Asfandyar Mir

Commentary

Last Friday, the U.S. government announced a two-step peace deal with the insurgent Afghan Taliban. In the first step, the United States and the Afghan Taliban will substantially “reduce violence” ...
What Explains Counterterrorism Effectiveness? Evidence from the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan

Asfandyar Mir

Journal Article

Abstract For years, the U.S. government has been waging counterterrorism campaigns against al-Qaida and other armed groups in safe havens and weak states. What explains the effectiveness of such...

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Negotiating the New START Treaty

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The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy

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Does the Noncombatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? A Debate

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The U.S. may be close to a peace deal in Afghanistan. Here are 3 big takeaways.

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What Explains Counterterrorism Effectiveness? Evidence from the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan

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Drones, Surveillance, and Violence: Theory and Evidence from a US Drone Program

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Why didn’t the U.S. rebuke Russia for its Taliban bounty deal? Four things to know.

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Al Qaeda’s Leader Is Old, Bumbling—and a Terrorist Mastermind

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Al Qaeda’s Franchise Reboot

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Rethinking Nuclear Arms Control

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Can China’s Military Win the Tech War?

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How the West could win a technological ‘shadow war’ with China

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How to use the next stimulus to counter China

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The west needs a positive response to China’s technology challenge

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It's Not Too Late to Prevent a Russia-China Axis

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Nuclear Weapons Scholarship as a Case of Self-Censorship in Security Studies

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Donald Trump Could Lose the Election by Authorizing a New Nuclear Weapons Test

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Particulate Plutonium Released from the Fukushima Daiichi Meltdowns

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A Research Agenda for Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance

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Cyber Risk Research Impeded by Disciplinary Barriers

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Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World

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The Next Director of National Intelligence: A Thankless Job Is Getting Even Harder

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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: Why U.S. Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail

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Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons

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What Really Went Wrong at WIPP: An Insider’s View of Two Accidents at the Only US Underground Nuclear Waste Repository

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The Existential Threat From Cyber-enabled Information Warfare

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On the Organization of the U.S. Government for Responding to Adversarial Information Warfare and Influence Operations

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Anomalous behavior of nonequilibrium excitations in UO2

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Dissolution of radioactive, cesium-rich microparticles released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in simulated lung fluid, pure-water, and seawater

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Constructing the Field of Terrorism