Produced by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Strategic Insights is an electronic journal offering timely, concise assessments of U.S. and international security issues. While the journal is intended especially for U.S. military personnel and defense policymakers, we also welcome the interest of students and the public. New issues of Strategic Insights are published here on a quarterly basis.
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Current Issue: Volume VIII, Issue 5 (Winter 2009/2010)
Strategic Insights * Special Issue on Extended Deterrence, Security Guarantees, and Nuclear Proliferation: Strategic Stability in the Gulf Region
Guest Editors: Professors Daniel J. Moran and James A. Russell
Introduction
- Extended Deterrence, Security Guarantees, and Nuclear Proliferation: Strategic Stability in the Gulf Region by Daniel J. Moran and James A. Russell
Feature Articles: Extended Deterrence
- Extended Deterrence and Communicating Resolve by James M. Acton
- Extended Deterrence, Security Guarantees and Nuclear Weapons: U.S. Strategic and Policy Conundrums in the Gulf by James A. Russell
- Security Guarantees and Extended Deterrence in the Gulf Region: A European Perspective by Bruno Tertrais
- Extended Deterrence and Iran by Shahram Chubin
- Strategic Reassurance if Iran “Goes Nuclear”: A Framework and Some Propositions by Lewis A. Dunn
- Infrastructure Security and Nuclear Power by Friedrich Steinhausler
SI Forum: International Security and Foreign Policy
- Beyond Afghanistan: Recharging European: Foreign and Security Policy by Sergey Smolnikov
- The North African Franchise: AQIM’s Threat to U.S. Security by Captain Russell J. Isaacs
- U.S. National Security Strategy: Is There an Empirical Relationship Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom? by Major Shon A. McCormick and David A. Anderson
- Oil and Conflict: Fatal Attraction? A Correlational Examination of Oil Resources and Armed Conflict by James E. McGinley
Viewpoints: Spotlight on East Asia
- North Korea After Kim Jong Il: Four Scenarios by Sico van der Meer
- No One Talks to the Generals by Peter A. Coclanis
Book Review
- Peter W. Singer's Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy
Recent CCC Conferences
- ISSS/ISAC Annual Conference 2009: Insecurity and Durable Disorder, Challenges to the State in an Age of Anxiety, Monterey, CA (October 15-17, 2009)
- The U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Partnership: A Track-Two Dialogue for Long-Term Security Cooperation, Dubai, UAE (October 8-9, 2009)
- Extended Deterrence, Security Guarantees, and Nuclear Proliferation: Strategic Stability in the Gulf Region, Dubai, UAE (October 4-5, 2009)
- Security Assurances and Nonproliferation, Colorado Springs, CO (August 13-14, 2009)
- Proliferation Complexity: The Intersection of Policy, Operations, Media, Intelligence, and Science, Monterey, CA (July 7-9, 2009)
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SI Editorial Staff
Strategic Insights is produced by the following NSA Department faculty and staff:
- CCC Director
- Anne L. Clunan
- CCC Executive Director
- Sandra R. Leavitt
- SI Guest Editors
- Daniel J. Moran
- James A. Russell
- SI Editor
- Barry Zellen
- SI Editorial Assistants
- Rebekah Deitz
- Colleen Garcia
- Kali Shelor
- SI Editorial Board
- Anne Marie Baylouny
- Robert E. Looney
- Jessica Piombo
- James A. Russell
- Harold A. Trinkunas
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