A2/AD

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A significant effect of the Bush and Obama administrations’ development and deployment of BMD systems during the 2001–2016 period was to serve as a catalyst for hard balancing, primarily of an internal variety, on the part of Moscow. Russian hard balancing against the United States involved (1) fielding new strategic nuclear and conventional weapons equipped with BMD countermeasures...

Unlike Russia, China is a rising power in the post–Cold War era.Thomas J. Christensen, The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015). This gives the Chinese response to U.S. missile...

Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, leaders in Tehran...

It is not unusual to hear the regime in North Korea, formally known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), characterized as either irrational or ruled by an irrational leader.

As theorists have consistently pointed out, there is a strong strain in American elite (and arguably also popular) thinking that has historically only reluctantly accepted balance of power and mutual deterrence.Mearsheimer, Tragedy, 402; Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 221,...

House of Representatives. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. Washington, DC: 2016.

ABLsee Airborne Laser ,

Nicholas Khoo (Ph.D., Columbia University; M.A., Johns Hopkins; B.A., University of California) is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Otago in New Zealand. He is author of Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance (2011) and Asian Security and the Rise of China (2014).

Series Editors: Joseph M. Siracusa and Aiden Warren