The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Taiwan
Scholarly Publications
Uneasy Partnerships: China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform
April 2017
Uneasy Partnerships presents the analysis and insights of practitioners and scholars who have shaped and examined China's interactions with key Northeast Asian partners.
Global Missile Defense Cooperation and China
December 2011
Abstract:US-Russia ballistic missile defense (BMD) cooperation can improve strategic stability between both countries, but this cooperation would pose a potential threat to China’s strategic...
Reforming Intelligence: Obstacles to Democratic Control and Effectiveness
December 2007
These days, it's rare to pick up a newspaper and not see a story related to intelligence.
Other Publications
Stop Ignoring Taiwan
May 2012
In an article for Foreign Policy, Karl Eikenberry makes the case for the United States to invigorate its relations with Taiwan and outlines the work needed to make this a reality and stabilize...
President Obama’s Asia Overdrive
November 2011
When Asia’s leaders gather in Honolulu next week for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Americans will get a glimpse of the Obama administration’s hyperactive Asia agenda.
News
Oriana Skylar Mastro Testifies on Deterring PRC Aggression Toward Taiwan to Congressional Review Commission
February 2021
China may now be able to prevail in cross-strait contingencies even if the United States intervenes in Taiwan’s defense, Chinese security expert Oriana Skylar Mastro tells the U.S.-China Economic and...
Update on Taiwan and China's Troubled Relationship: Oriana Skylar Mastro on NPR
October 2020
"The current threat is that the CCP is running out of patience, and their military is becoming more and more capable. So for the first time in its history, there's the option of taking...
China’s security agenda transcends the South China Sea
June 2016
Internal documents reveal how China’s rivalry with the United States is driving its massive reclamation and construction campaign on disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Events
Testing the Logic of Counterinsurgency Doctrine
April 2, 2013
About the topic: When in late 2009, President Obama ordered the surge of an additional 30,000 troops into Afghanistan to reverse Taliban momentum, major tenets of the U.S.
Away from the Keyboard? The Challenges of Command and Control over Cyber Operations
March 7, 2013
ABOUT THE TOPIC: Nearly all scholars writing about the potential for cyber war conclude that states, assumed to be unitary rational actors, are unlikely to use offensive cyber capabilities.
The Transition to Afghan Sovereignty: Assessing Progress and Identifying Challenges
January 31, 2012
Ten years into the war in Afghanistan, Payne Distinguished Lecturer Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, the former U.S.
Projects
Regional Conflict and Cooperation
Regional conflicts present their own set of unique challenges to the international community.
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