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NSA faculty regularly publish research on current and emerging security issues. A selection of our most recent books, book chapters, reports, and journal articles are listed here. For a more complete listing, consult each faculty member's individual page.
Authored Books
Zachary Shore, Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions (New York: Bloomsbury USA, October 2008)
Anne Clunan, The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).
Donald Abenheim, Soldier and Politics Transformed: German-American Reflections on Civil-Military Relations in a New Strategic Environment (Miles-Verlag, 2007).
Clay Moltz and Sarah J. Diehl, Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation (Denver: ABC-CLIO, September 2007).
Daniel Moran, Wars of National Liberation (Smithsonian Books, 2006), part of the Smithsonian History of Warfare series.
Edward A. Olsen, Korea, The Divided Nation (Praeger Security International, 2005).
Harold A. Trinkunas, Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
Douglas Porch, Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).
Articles
Thomas Johnson (with Chris Mason), “All Counterinsurgency is Local,” The Atlantic 302, no. 3 (October 2008): 36-38.
S. Paul Kapur, “Ten Years of Instability in a Nuclear South Asia,” International Security (Fall 2008).
Thomas Johnson (with Richard English), “Winning the War in Afghanistan: Echoes of Northern Ireland and the IRA?” The Brown Journal of World Affairs 15, no. 1 (Winter 2008/9).
Christopher P. Twomey, "Lacunae in the Study of Culture in International Security," Contemporary Security Policy 29, no. 2 (Aug 2008): 1-20.
Christopher P. Twomey, "Explaining Chinese Foreign Policy toward North Korea: Navigating between the Scylla and Charybdis of Proliferation and Instability," Journal of Contemporary China 17, no. 56 (August 2008): 401-23.
Jeffrey Knopf, "Wrestling with Deterrence: Bush Administration Strategy after 9/11," Contemporary Security Policy 29, no. 2 (August 2008): 237-273.
Sophal Ear (with John Hall, Chapman University Law School), “Op-Ed: Managing Democracy: Cambodia’s Free Press Under Fire,” International Herald Tribune, and reprinted as “Opinion: A Free Press in Cambodia Now More Critical Than Ever” in The Cambodia Daily, July 28, 2008.
Christopher Twomey, “Balancing Identity and Reality,” book review roundtable on David Kang, China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008), Asia Policy, no. 6 (July 2008): 157-62.
Scott Siegel, “Courts and Compliance in the European Union: The European
Arrest Warrant in National Constitutional Courts,” The Jean Monnet Working Papers,
New York University, no. 5/08.
Sophal Ear, "Special Issue on Southeast Asian American Demographics: Response-Public Policy/Political Science," Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement 3 (June 2008): 58-61.
Robert Looney, "Reconstruction and Peace-building Under Extreme Adversity: The Problem of Pervasive Corruption in Iraq," International Peacekeeping (June 2008).
Robert Looney, "Anatomy of A Failed State," The Milken Review, Third Quarter 2008.
Robert Looney, "The Turkish Business Climate," Middle East Institute, Policy Brief 13 (May 2008).
Robert Looney, "The Musharraf Paradox: The Failure of an Economic Success Story," The Open Area Studies Journal (2008): 1-15.
Mohammed Hafez, "Radicalization in the Persian Gulf: Assessing the potential of Islamist militancy in Saudi Arabia and Yemen," Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 1, no. 1 (2008).
Douglas Porch and Maria Rasmussen, "Demobilization of Paramilitaries in Colombia: Transformation or Transition?" Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 31, no. 6 (June 2008).
Thomas Johnson, "No Sign until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier," with M. Chris Mason, International Security 32, no. 4 (Spring 2008): 41-77.
Thomas Johnson, "Rethinking Afghanistan: Echoes of Ulster and the IRA?," with Richard English, Policy Options 29, no. 5 (May 2008): 25-32.
Edward Olsen, "Korean Nationalism in a Divided Nation: Challenges to U.S. Policy" Pacific Focus, April 2008.
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Militarizing Welfare: Neo-liberalism and Jordanian Policy." Middle East Journal 62, no. 2 (April 2008): 277-303.
Mikhail Tsypkin, "Perceptions and Misperceptions: Exploring the U.S.-Russian Strategic Impasse," Strategic Insights VII, no. 2 (April 2008) (with Jerome Conley).
Thomas Johnson," Afghanistan: The Challenges Ahead," with Alec Metz, FrontLine Defence, Issue 2 (March 2008): 14-17.
Clay Moltz, "The Past, Present, and Future of Space Security," Brown Journal of International Affairs (Summer-Fall 2007).
Thomas H. Johnson, "On the Edge of the Big Muddy: The Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan," China and Eurasian Forum Quarterly 5, no. 2 (2007): 93-129.
James A. Russell, "Whither Regional Security in a World Turned Upside Down," Middle East Policy XIV, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 141-148.
Thomas H. Johnson, "The Taliban Insurgency and an Analysis of Shabnamah (Night Letters)," Small Wars and Insurgencies 18, no. 2 (Spring 2007).
Sophal Ear, "Does Aid Dependence Worsen Governance?" International Public Management Journal (September 2007).
Sophal Ear, "The Political Economy of Aid and Governance in Cambodia," Asian Journal of Political Science (April 2007).
Robert E. Looney, "The Iranian Oil Bourse: A Threat to Dollar Supremacy?" Challenge, March-April 2007.
Robert E. Looney, "The Economics of a Loose Iraq Federation," Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Winter 2007.
Peter R. Lavoy, " India in 2006," Asian Survey 47, no. 1 (January-February 2007).
Peter R. Lavoy, "Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, January 21, 2007.
Thomas H. Johnson, "Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan," with M. Chris Mason, Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs 51, no. 1, 2007.
Anne L. Clunan, "The Fight Against Terrorist Financing" in Political Science Quarterly 121, no. 4 (2006): 569-596.
Robert E. Looney, "The Iraqi Impasse: Sustaining Economic Reconstruction During War-Time," International Journal of World Peace, December 2006.
Peter R. Lavoy, "Nuclear Proliferation Over the Next Decade: Causes, Warning Signs, and Policy Responses," Nonproliferation Review 13, no. 3 (November 2006).
James A. Russell, "Peering into the Abyss: Non-State Actors and the 2016 Proliferation Environment," Nonproliferation Review 13, no. 3 (November 2006).
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Creating Kin: New Family Associations as Welfare Providers in Liberalizing Jordan," International Journal of Middle East Studies 38, no. 3 (August 2006): 349-368.
Thomas H. Johnson, "Afghanistan’s Post-Taliban Transition: The State of State-Building after War," Central Asian Survey 25, no. 1-2 (March-June 2006), 1–26.
Abbas Kadhim, "Shaykh Mufid and the Refinement of Shi’i Theology," International Journal of Shi’i Studies 2, no. 2 (2006) 99-139.
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Jordan’s New ‘Political Development’ Strategy," Middle East Report 236 (Fall 2005)
James A. Russell, "Saudi Arabia in the 21st Century: A New Security Dilemma," Middle East Policy XII, no. 3 (Fall 2005), 64-78.
James A. Russell, "Strategy, Security, and War in Iraq: The United States and the Gulf in the 21st Century," Cambridge Review of International Affairs 18, no. 2 (July 2005).
James A. Russell, "Nuclear Strategy and the Modern Middle East," Middle East Policy XI, no. 3 (Fall 2004), 98-117.
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Islamists in Democratic Elections: Threat or Solution?" Connections III, no. 3, September 2004.
Thomas H. Johnson and James A. Russell, "A Hard Day’s Night?: The United States and the Global War on Terror," Comparative Strategy 24, no. 2, 2005, 127-151.
James A. Russell, "Strategic Implications of the Iraq Insurgency," Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) 8, no. 2 (June 2004), 48-55.
Capt. Scott Jasper, USN and Maj. Michael Binney, "Joint Close Air Support Training Transformation," Marine Corps Gazette (May 2004).
James J. Wirtz and James A. Russell, "United States Nuclear Strategy on the Twenty-First Century," Contemporary Security Policy 25, no. 1 (April 2004), 91-108.
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Emotions, Poverty, or Politics? Misconceptions about Islamic Movements," Connections III, no. 1, March 2004.
Edited Books
Daniel J. Moran and James A. Russell, eds., Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management (New York: Routledge/Global Security Studies, September 2008)
Christopher P. Twomey, ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008)
Alanoud Alsharekh and Robert Springborg, Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States (London: Saqi Books/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, June 2008)
Anne Clunan, Peter Lavoy and Susan B. Martin, eds., Terrorism, War, or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).
James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz, eds., Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security (New York: Routledge, December 2007).
Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri, eds., Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? (USIP Press, December 2007).
Harold Trinkunas and Jeanne Giraldo, eds., Terrorism Financing and State Response in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, March 2007).
James A. Russell, ed., Critical Issues Facing the Middle East: Security, Politics, and Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
James A. Russell, ed., Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Jessica Piombo and Lia Nijzink, eds., Electoral Politics in South Africa: Assessing the First Democratic Decade (Palgrave MacMillan, December 2005).
James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen, eds., Nuclear Transformation: The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
T. V. Paul, James J. Wirtz, and Michel Fortmann, eds., Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Stanford University Press, 2004).
James J. Wirtz and Loch Johnson, eds., Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World (Roxbury Publishing Company, 2004).
Chapters and Reports
Christopher P. Twomey, "Dangers and Prospects in Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Relations" in Twomey, ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008).
Christopher P. Twomey, "Comparing Perspectives: Dangers to Avoid, Prospects to Develop" in Twomey, ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008).
Daniel Moran and James A. Russell, “Introduction: The Militarization of Energy Security,” in Daniel Moran and James A. Russell, eds., Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management (New York: Routledge Global Security Studies, September 10, 2008), 1-18.
Daniel Moran, “Chapter 2: The Battlefield and the Market Place: Two Cautionary Tales,” in Daniel Moran and James A. Russell, eds., Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management (New York: Routledge/Global Security Studies, September 2008), 19-38.
Thomas H. Johnson, “Chapter 8: Central Asia: Energy Resources, Politics, and Security?” in Daniel Moran and James A. Russell, eds., Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management (New York: Routledge/Global Security Studies, September 2008), 135-154.
Harold Trinkunas, “Chapter 10: Energy Security: The Case of Venezuela,” in Daniel Moran and James A. Russell, eds., Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management (New York: Routledge/Global Security Studies, September 2008), 175-187.
James Wirtz, “U.S. Nuclear Posture Review and Beyond,” in Christopher Twomey, ed., Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (London: Palgrave Macmillan/Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, June 2008).
S. Paul Kapur, “Nuclear Terrorism: Prospects in Asia,” in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford University Press, 2008).
Feroz Hassan Khan and Peter R Lavoy “Pakistan: The Dilemma of Deterrence,” in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., The Long Shadow : Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (Stanford University Press, 2008).
Thomas Bruneau (with Marco Cepik), “Brazil,” in Stuart Farson, Peter Gill, Mark Phythian, and Shlomo Shpiro, eds., PSI Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence: National Approaches, Volume 1: The Americas and Asia (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008).
Robert Looney, "The Mexican Economy," in Tracy North, ed., Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies 63 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008), 150-165.
Sophal Ear, "The Political Economy of Aid and Regime Legitimacy in Cambodia" in Öjendal and Lilja, eds., In Search of Political Legitimacy in Cambodia: Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society (Copenhagen: NIAS Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), 2008).
Edward Olsen, U.S. National Defense Policy in the 21st Century: A Grand Exit Strategy (2008, in Mandarin translation).
Robert Weiner, "Prefectural Politics: Party and Electoral Stagnation," in Sherry Martin and Gill Steel, eds., Political Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008), 151-173.
Jeffrey W. Knopf and Iain McMenamin, "How to Write a Literature Review," in Stephen Yoder, ed., Publishing Political Science: The APSA Guide to Writing and Publishing (Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, 2008).
James A. Russell, "Regional Threats and Security Strategy: The Troubling Case of Today’s Middle East," Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, November 2007.
Anne L. Clunan, "Globalization and the Impact of International Norms on Defense Restructuring," in Thomas Bruneau and Harold Trinkunas, eds., Global Determinants of Defense Reform (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Anne L. Clunan, “Introduction: Identifying Biological Agents, Characterizing Events, and Attributing Blame,” in Anne L. Clunan, Peter R. Lavoy and Susan B. Martin, eds., Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2008), 1-20.
Anne L. Clunan, “Building Information Networks for Biosecurity,” in Anne L. Clunan, Peter R. Lavoy and Susan B. Martin, eds., Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2008), 293-310.
Susan B. Martin and Anne L. Clunan, “Conclusion: The Role of Attribution in Biosecurity Policy,” in Anne L. Clunan, Peter R. Lavoy and Susan B. Martin, eds., Terrorism, War or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons (Stanford University Press, 2008), 311-328.
Anne L. Clunan, "U.S. and International Responses to Terrorist Financing," in Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas, eds., Terrorism Financing and State Responses (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Countering Arab Television? Assessing the Effect of Alhurra, the U.S. Satellite Station," in The Ideological War on Terror: Worldwide strategies for counter-terrorism, edited by Anne Aldis and Graeme P. Herd (New York: Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, 2007).
Thomas H. Johnson, "Afghanistan’s Post-Taliban Transition: State Building After War," in Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri (eds.) Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? (Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace Press, 2007).
Peter R. Lavoy, "Knowledge Gaps and Threat Assessments," in Bioterrorism: Confronting a Complex Threat, ed. Andreas Wenger and Reto Wollenmann (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2007).
Douglas Porch, "Conflict within Cooperation: Western Security Relations Past andPresent," in Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance. Ed. with an Introduction by William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007.)
Feroz Khan, "Toward Cooperative Security: Prospects for Nonproliferation and Arms Control," in Joseph F. Pilat, Atoms for Peace. A Future after Fifty Years? (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 95-103.
Zachary Shore, " Europe’s Muslim Dilemma and Muslim Europe’s Choice," in Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance. Ed. with an Introduction by William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007).
Chris Twomey, "US-China Strategic Dialogue, Phase II: Reducing Misperception and Increasing Mutual Trust in Sino-American Strategic Affairs," NPS Technical Report, NPS-NS-07-001, April 2007.
Anne L. Clunan, “The Fight Against Terrorist Financing,” in Demetrios James Caraley and Loren Morales Kando, eds., Terrorist Attacks And Nuclear Proliferation: Strategies For Overlapping Dangers (New York: Academy of Political Science, 2007).
Jessica Piombo, "Terrorist Financing and Government Response in East Africa," in Terrorism Financing and State Response in Comparative Perspective, ed. Harold Trinkunas and Jeanne Giraldo (Stanford University Press, March 2007).
Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason, "Terrorism, Insurgency and Afghanistan," in James JF Forrest, ed., Counter Terrorism in the 21st Century, Volume III: Lessons Learned From the Fight Against Terrorism (New York, Praeger, 2007).
Thomas H. Johnson, "The Origins and Financing of Afghan Terrorism: Thugs, Guns, Drugs, Interlopers, and Creative Movements of Money," in Harold A. Trinkunas and Jeanne Giraldo, eds., Terrorist Financing and State Responses: Comparative Perspective (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Al Manar and Alhurra: Competing Satellite Stations and Ideologies," Occasional Paper Series no. 2 (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2006), reprinted in "Al Manar and Alhurra: Competing Satellite Stations and Ideologies," January 2007 (in Russian).
Anne Marie Baylouny, "Oslo’s Success, a Militarized Resistance: Changing Opposition Tactics in the Palestinian Territories," in Critical Issues in Middle East Security, edited by James Russell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Thomas H. Johnson, "Democratic Nation Building in the Arc of Crisis: The Case of the Presidential Election in Afghanistan," in James A. Russell, ed., Critical Issues Facing the Middle East Security: Security, Politics, and Economics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 125-146.
Thomas H. Johnson and Colin Lober, "Central Asian Terrorism: A Problem in Search of Definition and Policy," in Global Terrorism: Genesis, Implications, Remedial and Countermeasures (Islamabad, Pakistan: Aziz-ul-Haque Institute of Regional Studies, 2006), 186-219.
Thomas H. Johnson and James Russell, "A Hard Day’s Night?: The United States and the Global War on Terror," in Countering Modern Terrorism: History, Current Issues and Future Threats (Gesamtherstellung, Germany: W. Bertelsmann Verlag, GmbH, 2005), 239-271.
Edward A. Olsen, Homeland Security: Learning from Japan (The Independent Institute, 2005), print version.
Peter R. Lavoy, "Pakistan's Nuclear Doctrine," in Rafiq Dossani and Henry S. Rowen (eds.), Prospects for Peace in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2005).
Vali Nasr, "Islamic Extremism and Regional Conflict in South Asia," in Rafiq Dossani and Henry S. Rowen (eds.), Prospects for Peace in South Asia (Stanford University Press, 2005).
Edward A. Olsen, Homeland Security: Learning from Japan (The Independent Institute, 2004), online version.
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