Strategic studies
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Saudi Arabia boosts defence sector in drive for self-reliance
On the outskirts of Riyadh, officials show visitors around one of the latest investments by the sovereign wealth fund at…
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi barred from Libya’s presidential poll
Libya’s electoral body has barred Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late dictator, from contesting the oil-rich north African…
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What Russia Really Wants in the Balkans
The legendary Bosnian journalist Boro Kontic said recently that Bosnia and Herzegovina feels like a decades-long Groundhog Day: Agreements are being signed, institutions…
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Russia Won’t Let Ukraine Go Without a Fight
Ominous signs indicate that Russia may conduct a military offensive in Ukraine as early as the coming winter. Moscow has…
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Moscow’s military buildup is raising eyebrows in Washington
By Emma Ashford, a senior fellow in the New American Engagement Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and…
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Public Diplomacy and South Korea’s Strategies
Abstract In the age of globalization, public diplomacy has emerged as a significant style of diplomacy. Yet studies so…
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The U.S. Military and the Coming Great-Power Challenge
For many of the last 30 years, the notion that the United States was locked in direct contest with other…
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The EU’s Eastern Border Gets a Brief Respite
There is cautious optimism in Brussels that the temperature seems to be dialing down on the crises with Belarus and…
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Pipeline Politics between Europe and Russia
This paper conducts a historical survey of bilateral energy transactions during the Cold War and the early years of the…
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Understanding the Structures and Contents of National Interests
Scholars of international relations have consistently applied a single indicator to represent state interests.
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South Korea’s High-Level Bilateral Meetings with African Countries Concerning Nuclear North Korea
Many African countries have been alleged to serve North Korea as sources of hard currency, by purchasing weapons and military…
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Tracing the Abandonment of Kurds and South Korea Under the Trump Administration
Amid a stronger allied state’s disrupting policy to bash allies, swayed by domestic politics, which hich alliances survive and which…
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