Strategic Insights Archive by Date

Volume	Issue
VIII (2009)	1	2	3	4	5
VII (2008)	1	2	3	4
VI (2007)	1	2	3	4	5	6
V (2006)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
IV (2005)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
III (2004)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
II (2003)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
I (2002)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

 Volume VIII, Issue 5 (December 2009)

Feature Articles

• Extended Deterrence, Security Guarantees, and Nuclear Proliferation: Strategic Stability in the Gulf Region by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell
• 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
• 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 Dr. David A. Anderson
• Oil and Conflict: Fatal Attraction? A Correlational Examination of Oil resources and Armed Conflict by James E. McGinley
• North Korea after Kim Jong Il: Four Scenarios by Sico van der Meer
• Understanding Burma: 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

 Volume VIII, Issue 4 (September 2009)

Feature Articles

• Introduction to the Special Issue on NATO and Deterrence by David Yost 
• Requirements for Deterrence: Two Challenging Scenarios by Elbridge Colby
• NATO’s Deterrence Requirements: A Lithuanian Perspective by Kestutis Paulauskas
• Reflections on Requirements and Contingencies for a NATO Deterrence or Reassurance Role in the Middle East by Ariel E. Levite
• NATO’s Deterrence Requirements and the Next Strategic Concept: A German Perspective by Klaus Wittmann
• Alliance Requirements for Deterrence: Capabilities and Options for the Next Decade by Paul Schulte
• Spain, Burden-Sharing and NATO Deterrence Policy by David Garcia Cantalapiedra
• Prospects for U.S.-Russian Arms Control and Disarmament: A Russian Perspective by Sergey Oznobishchev
• Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament, and Extended Deterrence in the New Security Environment by Joseph F. Pilat
• NATO’s Future Nuclear Dimension: Managing Expectations for the Strategic Concept Debate by Michael Rühle
• NATO’s Deterrence Challenges: Report on a Workshop in Vilnius, Lithuania, 10-12 May 2009 by David S. Yost
• NATO and Tailored Deterrence: Key Workshop Findings in 2007-2008 by David S. Yost

 Volume VIII, Issue 3 (August 2009)

Feature Articles

• Subversion as a Facet of Terrorism and Insurgency: The Case for a Twenty-First Century Approach by Lindsay Clutterbuck and William Rosenau
• Employing Data Fusion in Cultural Analysis and Counterinsurgency in Tribal Social Systems by Steffen Merten
• Could Al Qaeda’s Own Strategy to Defeat Itself Actually Work? by Carl J. Ciovacco
• Diplomatic Game-Changer: How Recent Maritime-Related Initiatives Have Decisively Improved the Ability to Confront Terrorists/Criminals by Brian Wilson
• Ideology or Pragmatism? U.S. Economic Aid, Military Assistance, and Foreign Military Sales: 1950-2007 by David A. Anderson and MAJ Randall D. McCauley, USA
• Democracy Promotion and the National Security Strategy: U.S. National Interest, Primacy, and Coercion by Richard Nere
• Skeptics at NATO’s 60th Anniversary: A Critique of the Criticism by Maj. Loree Filizer, USAF
• Indo-U.S. Relations: An Historical Perspective by Dheeraj Kumar

Viewpoints

• What if the President of Sudan is Arrested? by Glen Segell
• What is Washington’s Next Move on North Korea? by Sehun Cheon
• Lost Years, Lost Opportunities: Bush Foreign Policy by David W. Wise

 Volume VIII, Issue 2 (April 2009)

Feature Articles

• High Noon on the High Seas: A Proximity–Complexity Model of Maritime Piracy Threats by James E. McGinley and Jonathan P. Berliner
• Arms Control in the Obama Administration: Coming in from the Cold by Jeffrey A. Larsen
• Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East by James A. Russell
• Medvedev Overplays the “Military Card” in Trying to Impress Obama by Dale Herspring and Roger N. McDermott
• A Critical Juncture: American Foreign Policy and Asymmetric Warfare by John Maszka
• Reducing Ideological Support for Terrorism by Paul Shemell
• Why Arab Summitry is Fizzling: Sub-Regional Geopolitics Meets the New Global Reality of Rising Powers and Fragile States by Mike Kraig
• Viewpoint: War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War by Barry Zellen
• Breakouts, Evasive Maneuvers: Managing the Proliferation Intentions of Determined States by Carol Kessler and Amy Seward
• The Future of Japanese Nuclear Policy by Maria Rost Rublee
• Turkish Perceptions and Nuclear Proliferation by Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Nilsu Goren
• Libya’s Nuclear Intentions: Ambition and Ambivalence by Maalfrid Braut-Hegghammer
• Illicit Nuclear Procurement Networks and Nuclear Proliferation: Challenges for Intelligence, Detection, and Interdiction by Jack Boureston and James A. Russell

 Volume VIII, Issue 1 (January 2009)

Feature Articles

• The Middle East’s Next Nuclear State by Bruno Tertrais
• Russia’s Proliferation Pathways by Stephen Blank
• Legal Instruments to Prevent Nuclear WMD Use by Non-State Actors by Friedrich Steinhäusler
• Preparing for the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review: Post-Cold War Nuclear Deterrence and the 2001 NPR Debate by Maj. Scott Weston, USAF
• Soft Power and Smart Power in Africa by Maj. James R. “Hack” Hackbarth, USAF
• Two Sides of the Same COIN: Torture and Terror in the Algerian War, 1954-62 by Daniel Moran
• The Information Domain as an Element of National Power by Robert Kozloski
• Ajara – A New Russian Option in Georgia? by William C. Green
• Liberal, Imperial, and Economic Motivation of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Philippines 1898-1946 by Maj. Scott Weston, USAF
• The Global Financial Crisis and the Hidden Crisis of the Oil-Rentier Economies: Back to Basics by Sabri Zire Al-Saadi
• Toward a Post-Arctic World by Barry S. Zellen

Viewpoints

• Viewpoint: Israel, Gaza, the Return of an ‘Emboldened Iran’ – and Obama by Farideh Farhi
• Viewpoint: Pakistan’s Last Chance by Zachary S. Davis

 Volume VII, Issue 4 (September 2008)

Feature Articles

• The Strategy of Containment in Fighting Terrorism by Lora S. Aggour
• Reconciling the Arab Initiative with Israel’s Core Requirements for Peace by Alon Ben-Meir
• Constructive Sovereignty: A New International Relations Model for an Old Problem by John Maszka
• Palestinian Tribes, Clans, and Notable Families by Glenn E. Robinson
• The Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal: What is There? by Annpurna Nautiyal
• The U.S.-India Nuke Deal: U.S. Needs and Ambitions by Dheeraj Kumar
• Nuclear Blackmailing: Will North Korea Ever End its Nuclear Program? by Sico van der Meer
• A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Radical Islam in Insular Southeast Asia by Major Andrés H. Cáceres-Solari, USMC

 Volume VII, Issue 3 (July 2008)

Feature Articles

• Countering Asymmetrical Warfare in the 21st Century by David E. Long
• Sun Tzu, Nuclear Weapons and China's Grand Strategy by James Rickard
• The Strategic Landscape: Avoiding Future Generations of Violent Extremists by Kathleen Meilahn
• A Turkish al-Qaeda: The Islamic Jihad Union and the Internationalization of Uzbek Jihadism by Guido Steinberg
• India's Persian Problems by P. R. Kumaraswamy
• The Militarization of Energy Security by James A. Russell
• Is the Sky Falling? Energy Security and Transnational Terrorism by Michael Mihalka and David Anderson

Viewpoints

• Fear and Dread in the Middle East by Michael Brenner
• Islam and the West: Issues of Diversity by Muhammad Rizwan
• Arab Education: The Front Line on the War on Terror by Michael J. Hillyard

 Volume VII, Issue 2 (April 2008)

Social Movement Analyses of Opposition Groups

• Introduction: From Chechnya to Israel: Social Movement Analyses of Opposition Groups by Anne Marie Baylouny
• Adopt and Overcome: The U.S. Military Doctrinal Gap in the COIN Fight by Todd A. Anderson
• To Tame a Chechen Wolf: Shedding the Failing Frame of Salafism by Keely M. Fahoum
• The Arab Minority in Israel: Motivations for Collective Action by Eric J. Gust
• Gush Emunim and the Israeli Settlers of the Occupied Territories: A Social Movement Approach by LT Mark Munson, USN
• A Lion in the Path of Oman’s Nationalization: Insurgency in Oman from the 1950s through the 1970s Examined through Social Movement Theory by CPT Jason Howk
• Repression and Protest: The Limitations of Aggregation by T.J. O'Connell

Viewpoints

• “Do as I Say, Not as I Do”—Towards a Pro-Active Exposure of Opposition Failings by James Spencer
• Oil Power and Adversity in Iraq’s Experience: Case History of the Middle East by Sabri Zire Al-Saadi
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front by Barry Zellen

Events

• Perceptions and Misperceptions: Exploring the U.S.-Russian Strategic Impasse by Jerome Conley and Mikhail Tsypkin
• U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue Phase III: The Role of National Perceptions of Security Environments in Shaping Sino-American Nuclear Affairs by Christopher P. Twomey and Kali Shelor

Book Reviews

• Book Review: David Bell’s The First Total War by Daniel Moran

 Volume VII, Issue 1 (February 2008)

Energy Security: Current and Future Strategic Challenges

• Introduction: Special Edition on Energy Security by Friedrich Steinhäusler, James A. Russell, and Daniel Moran
• The Militarization of Energy Security by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell
• Security of Energy: The Conflict after Next? by David W. Hamon and Arnold C. Dupuy
• Energy Security or a New Globalization of Conflicts? Oil and Gas in Evolving New Power Structures by Uwe Nerlich
• The Middle East: Petroleum Supply Security or Political Stability? by Naji Abi-Aad

Supply Chain and Infrastructure Security

• Security Risks to the Oil and Gas Industry: Terrorist Capabilities by Friedrich Steinhäusler, P. Furthner, W. Heidegger, S. Rydell, and L. Zaitseva
• Integrated Security Concept for the Oil and Gas Industry by P. Furthner and Friedrich Steinhäusler
• Scenario Development in Oil and Gas Management: “Envisioning the Future” by Means of Analytical Techniques by James David Ballard and Fred C. Dilger
• Severe Accidents in the Oil Chain with Emphasis on Oil Spills by Peter Burgherr and S. Hirschberg
• A Guideline: Using or Creating Incident Databases for Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines by Achim Hilgenstock
• Gas Analytical Technologies for Physical Protection of Oil and Gas Objects by Vladimir Gruznov and M. Baldin
• Gas Analyzing System Based on Semiconductor Sensors for Providing Safety of Oil and Gas Pipeline Operations by O. Tolbanov, O. Anisimov, V. Sachkov, G. Sakovich, Alexander Vorozhtsov, N. Eisenreich, and M. Krausa
• Inline Inspection from an Operator’s Point of View by Thomas Huwener
• Remote Detection of Leaks in Gas Pipelines with an Airborne Raman Lidar by Sergey M. Bobrovnikov, Ilia B. Serikov, Yuri F. Arshinov, G. Sakovich, Alexander Vorozhtsov, and N. Eisenreich
• Emergency Shut-Down Valve for Gas Pipelines by Alexander Vorozhtsov, V. Arkhipov, and I. Plekhanov
• Safety and Security of Energy Supply in Lithuania by Vaida Matuziene and Juozas Augutis

• Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order with Michael T. Klare
• Cold Front Rising: As Climate Change Thins Polar Ice, a New Race for Arctic Resources Begins by Barry Zellen
• The United Nations Africa Union Mission in Darfur—UNAMID by Glen Segell

 Volume VI, Issue 6 (December 2007)

After the Surge: Assessing the Future of Iraq Feature Articles

• Half Full or Half Empty? An Assessment of the Crocker Report on Iraqi Economic Conditions by Robert Looney
• A Plan for Post-Surge Iraq by Abbas Kadhim
• Rebuilding a Non-Sectarianism in Iraq by Eric Davis
• ‘Shadows of the Images’: The Allegory of Iraq by John Tirman
• Economic Development During Conflict: The Petraeus-Crocker Congressional Testimonies by Frank R. Gunter

Viewpoints

• The Return to Attrition: Warfare in the Late Nation-State Era by Peter Munson
• China… from the Sea: The Importance of Chinese Naval History by Benjamin Armstrong
• Regional Threats and Security Strategy: The Troubling Case of Today’s Middle East by James Russell
• Neither Submission, Nor War: Conceiving the EU's Policy Response to the Iranian Challenge by Sergey Smolnikov
• Success Conditions for Iraq’s Oil-Rentier Economy: Special Theory of Economic-Rent and Free Market Efficiency by Sabri Zire Al-Saadi
• Determining Communication Shortfalls for Homeland Defense by MAJ Kevin P. Wilson

 Volume VI, Issue 5 (August 2007)

Terrorism, Transnational Networks, and WMD Proliferation: Indications and Warning in an Era of Globalization Feature Articles

• South Africa from the Perspective of WMD Supply Networks: Indications and Warning Implications by Stephen F. Burgess
• Bioweapons, Proliferation, and the U.S. Anthrax Attack by Leonard A. Cole
• Attractiveness of WMD for Radical Islamist Movements: Ideological Constraints, Black-Spots, and Failed-Weak States by Andrea Plebani
• The Biological Weapons Proliferation Threat: Past, Present, and Future Assessments and Responses by Catherine Rhodes and Malcolm Dando
• The London Ricin Cell by Glen Segell
• Not a ‘Wal-Mart’, but an ‘Imports-Exports Enterprise’: Understanding the Nature of the A.Q. Khan Network by Bruno Tertrais
• Terrorism, Organized Crime, and WMD Smuggling: Challenge and Response by Phil Williams
• Organized Crime, Terrorism and Nuclear Trafficking by Lyudmila Zaitseva

Viewpoints

• Understanding Iran’s Motivations in Iraq: The Cost Calculus of External Support by Ryan Carr
• Project 2008: Notes on the Russian Succession by Stephen Blank
• A Proof-of-Concept Model for Evaluating Insurgency Management Policies Using the System Dynamics Methodology by Edward G. Anderson Jr.
• India’s Nuke Dance Over Iran by PR Kumaraswamy

 Volume VI, Issue 4 (June 2007)

The U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Partnership: A Track Two Dialogue for Long-Term Security Cooperation and Stability

• U.S.–Pakistan Relations in the Twenty–First Century by Peter R. Lavoy
• General Trends, Global Futures, and U.S.–Pakistan Relations by Jehangir Karamat
• Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project by Dan Flyn
• Facing Up to the Trust Deficit: The Key to an Enhanced U.S.–Pakistan Defense Relationship by David O. Smith
• Enhanced Defense Cooperation Between the United States and Pakistan by Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
• Nuclear World Order and Nonproliferation, I by Neil Joeck
• Nuclear World Order and Nonproliferation, II by Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
• U.S.–Pakistan Cooperation: The War on Terrorism and Beyond by Farhana Ali

Viewpoints

• Democracy in Bangladesh: Fragility to Collapse? by P.R. Kumaraswamy and Sreeradha Datta

Book Reviews

• Book Review: The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by General Rupert Smith by Nader Elhefnawy (June 2007)

 Volume VI, Issue 3 (May 2007)

The Democratic Challenge: Transparency, Accountability, and Effectiveness in Intelligence

• Introduction: Challenges to Effectiveness in Intelligence Due to the Need for Transparency and Accountability in Democracy by Thomas C. Bruneau
• Intelligence Secrecy and Transparency: Finding the Proper Balance from the War of Independence to the War on Terror by CAPT Timothy J. Doorey, USN
• Reconciling Intelligence Effectiveness and Transparency: The Case of Romania by Florina Cristiana Matei
• Intelligence Reforms in Brazil: Contemporary Challenges and the Legacy of the Past by Thomas C. Bruneau
• Intelligence Reform in Colombia: Transparency and Effectiveness against Internal Threats by Steven C. Boraz

Viewpoint

• Singapore Aims for Enhanced Information Awareness with RAHS by Barry Zellen

Book Review

• Cyber Bytes: Chinese Information-War Theory and Practice by Timothy Thomas by MAJ Eric Oliver

 Volume VI, Issue 2 (March 2007)

The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward or Backward?

• Introduction to the Special Edition of Strategic Insights on the Iraq Study Group by Robert Looney
• Diplomacy and the Iraq War by John Tirman
• Saudi Arabia: Iraq, Iran, the Regional Power Balance, and the Sectarian Question by F. Gregory Gause, III
• Israel and the Iraq Study Group Report by Jonathan Spyer
• Iraq’s Future 101: The Failings of the Baker-Hamilton Report by Brendan O’Leary
• Shi’i Perceptions of the Iraq Study Group by Abbas Kadhim 
• Beyond the Iraq Study Group: The Elusive Goal of Sustained Growth by Robert Looney
• Strategic Insecurity After Saddam: Whither Regional Security in a World Turned Upside Down? by James Russell

Reflections on the Long War

• It’s Now 2007: So Where are We in the Long War? by John Mills
• Cultural Understanding within Context as a Tool for Countering Irregular Threats and as a Force for Peace by Kathleen M. Meilahn
• The Evolution of Arab Conceptions of the Crusades by CAPT John "Garick" Chamberlin

Viewpoints

• Pouring More Arms into Iraq Risks Regional Conflagration by James Russell
• Whither Victory in the War on Terror? by Barry Zellen

 Volume VI, Issue 1 (January 2007)

Africa’s Security Challenges and Rising Strategic Significance

• Introduction: Africa’s Rising Strategic Significance by Jessica Piombo
• U.S. Africa Policy Since the Cold War by Letitia Lawson
• Africa Command: Forecast for the Future by CDR Otto Sieber
• Terrorism and U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policies in Africa: An Overview by Jessica Piombo
• Enhancing Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea by Raymond Gilpin
• Insider’s Perspective: Creating a Culture of Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea by CDR Connie Frizzell
• Enabling a Continent to Help Itself: U.S. Military Capacity Building and Africa’s Emerging Security Architecture by Benedicte Franke

Nuclear Proliferation and Strategic Realities

• Power to the People of India: U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India by Mark Bucknam
• The End of the Six-Party Talks? by Stephen Blank
• The Future of the British Nuclear Deterrent: An Assessment of Decision Factors by Walter C. Ladwig III

Viewpoints

• Serious or Not on Iraq War? by James Russell
• Europe's Quiet Integration by Zachary Shore
• Iraq Needs a Radical Change in Economic Strategy, and a Political Commitment to National Criteria for Oil Wealth Utilization by Sabri Zire Al-Saadi

• A Review of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon by Nader Elhefnawy

 Volume V, Issue 8 (November 2006)

Analyses of the Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC)

• An Introduction to a Special Issue of Strategic Insights: Analyses of the Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) by Thomas H. Johnson
• Algerian Groupe Salafiste de la Predication et le Combat (Salafi Group for Call and Combat, GSPC): An Operational Analysis by Cliff Gyves and Chris Wyckoff
• Modeling Jihad: A System Dynamics Model of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat Financial Subsystem by Alex Grynkewich and Chris Reifel
• Marketing Terror: Effects of Anti-Messaging on GSPC Recruitment by Keely M. Fahoum and Jon Width
• Calibrating a Field-level, Systems Dynamics Model of Terrorism’s Human Capital Subsystem: GSPC as Case Study by Tara A. Leweling and Otto Sieber

• Viewpoint: The Virtual Ummah by Philip Seib

 Volume V, Issue 7 (September 2006)

Solving the DPRK Problem: Regional Perspectives on the Korean Peninsula's Security Dilemma

• Introduction to the Special Issue by Edward A. Olsen
• South Korea–North Korea Relations: Influence of the PSI on North Korea by Myung Jin Kim
• China Policy Towards North Korea and its Implications for the United States: Balancing Competing Concerns by Christopher P. Twomey
• Beijing’s Pyongyang Dilemma: Encouraging International Patience with a Troublesome Ally by Lyman Miller
• North Korea’s Foreign Policy Towards the United States by Daniel A. Pinkston
• U.S. Policy Towards North Korea: Context and Options by Edward A. Olsen

 Volume V, Issue 6 (July 2006)

Globalization and WMD Proliferation Networks: Challenges to U.S. Security

• WMD Proliferation, Globalization, and International Security: Whither the Nexus and National Security? by James A. Russell
• Globalization and Nuclear Proliferation by H. H. Gaffney
• Proliferation Networks in Theory and Practice by Alexander H. Montgomery
• Globalization and WMD Proliferation Networks: The Policy Landscape by John P. Caves , Jr.
• The A.Q. Khan Illicit Nuclear Trade Network and Implications for Nonproliferation Efforts by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
• Near Term Threats of Chemical Weapons Terrorism by Margaret E. Kosal
• Globalization and WMD Proliferation Networks: The Case of Unmanned Air Vehicles as Terrorist Weapons by Dennis M. Gormley
• Intelligence and Nuclear Proliferation: Understanding and Probing Complexity by Phil Williams

Policy Perspectives

• 'All Elements of National Power': Re-Organizing the Interagency Structure and Process for Victory in the Long War by John R. Mills

 Volume V, Issue 5 (May 2006)

Iraq's Continuing Transformation: Challenges & Solutions

• Civil-Military Relations in Iraq (1921-2006): An Introductory Survey by Abbas Kadhim
• The Economics of Iraqi Reconstruction by Robert Looney
• The City on a Hill?—U.S. Policy Decisions and the Insurgency in Iraq by Maj. Christopher Davis
• A New IO Strategy: Prevention and Disengagement by Ed O’Connell and Dr. Cheryl Benard

Media and Terrorism

• Cerberus to Mind: Media as Sentinel in the Fight against Terrorism by CAPT Randall G. Bowdish

Homeland and Border Security

• America's Southern Front: Immigration, Homeland Security, and the Border Fencing Debate by Barry Zellen

 Volume V, Issue 4 (April 2006)

After Bush's Visit: South Asia at a Crossroads

• Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy after the Bush Visit to South Asia by Peter R. Lavoy
• Current Trends in India-U.S. Relations: Hopes for a Secure Future by Annpurna Nautiyal
• Guest Lecture: Jean-Luc Racine Discusses Kashmir NPS News Brief

Middle Eastern Challenges

• The Challenge of Terrorism and Religious Extremism in Jordan by Anouar Boukhars
• Letter to the Editor: Comment on Sabri Zire Al-Saadi's Iraq's National Vision, Economic Strategy, and Policies by Misbah Kamal

Civil-Military Relations

• The Role of Innere Führung in German Civil-Military Relations
  by Maj. Petra McGregor, USAF

 Volume V, Issue 3 (March 2006)

Special Report: Inside the New Iraq—Hopes and Challenges

• Painful Archeology: Excavating Saddam’s Mass Graves by Abbas Kadhim
• Iraq's National Vision, Economic Strategy, and Policies by Sabri Zire Al-Saadi
• Op/Ed: Transforming Tribal Relationships in Husaybah—A New Paradigm for the Middle East by Maj Edwin O. Rueda
• Preventing Civil War in Iraq: A News Hour with Jim Lehrer Transcript with Jim Lehrer, Vali Nasr, and Thabit Abdullah
• Iraqi Media Watch: Current Translations from the Iraqi Press by Abbas Kadhim

Rethinking Nuclear Strategy

• Do U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have a Future? by James J. Wirtz

Terrorism Financing

• The Mirage of Terrorist Financing: The Case of Islamic Charities by Robert Looney

 Volume V, Issue 2 (February 2006)

Democratic Hopes and Realities: Post-Electoral Challenges from the Andes to Afghanistan Part I: Winds of Change across the Andes: Latin America in Transition

• Winds of Change across the Andes: An Introduction by Kent H. Eaton
• Bolivia at the Crossroads: Interpreting the December 2005 Election by Kent H. Eaton
• Ecuador: The Continuing Challenge of Democratic Consolidation and Civil-Military Relations by Thomas C. Bruneau
• Uribe’s Second Mandate, the War, and the Implications for Civil-Military Relations in Colombia by Douglas Porch
• What is Really New about Venezuela’s Bolivarian Foreign Policy? by Harold A. Trinkunas

Part II: Coping with Electoral Outcomes in Islamic Democracies

• The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country’s Troubled Past by Thomas H. Johnson
• Hamas Comes to Power: Breakthrough or Setback? by Graham E. Fuller

 Volume V, Issue 1 (January 2006)

Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy?

• Introduction to the Special Issue on Interim Governments by Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri
• Conference Report—Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? by Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri, with assistance from Jen Hambleton and Barry Zellen
• Issues and Debates in Transitional Rule by Karen Guttieri and Jessica Piombo
• Interim Governance in Partial Democracies: El Salvador and Guatemala by William D. Stanley
• Liberia and the Fate of Interim Government in the Regional Vortex of West Africa by E. Philip Morgan
• International Interim Governments, Democratization, and Post-Conflict Peace-building: Lessons from Cambodia and East Timor by Aurel Croissant
• Kosovo: From Interim Status to Enhanced Sovereignty by Lenard J. Cohen

 Volume IV, Issue 12 (December 2005)

The Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006: Introductory Observations

• Introduction to the Special Issue: Democracy, Market Economy, and the Political Management of Transformation in 119 Countries: The Findings of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006 by Aurel Croissant
• The Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006: On the Way to Democracy and Market-Economy by Olaf Hillenbrand and Peter Thiery

Regional Case Studies

• Differential Patterns of Consolidation in View of European Union Membership: East-Central and Southeast Europe by Martin Brusis
• Divergent Trends of Transformation to Democracy and Market Economy: The Commonwealth of Independent States and Mongolia by Sabine Donner and Bernd Kuzmits
• Uncertain Prospects of Transformation: The Middle East and North Africa by Felix Neugart
• Democracy without Development? Unbalanced Transformations in Eastern and Southern Africa by Siegmar Schmidt
• Stagnation on Low Levels: Political and Economic Transformation in Central and West Africa by Matthias Basedau
• A Region Divided: Transformation towards Democracy and Market Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean by Peter Thiery
• Can You Have One without the Other? Transformation towards Market Economy and Democracy in Asia and Oceania by Aurel Croissant

Concluding Observations:

• Defects of Democracy and Options for Institutional Reform by Martin Brusis and Peter Thiery
• Regime Change and Violence: Political Violence, Extremism, and the Transformation to Democracy and Market Economy—Findings of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006 by Aurel Croissant

 Volume IV, Issue 11 (November 2005)

Middle East Transformation

• Preparing for a Nuclear Iran: The Role of the CIA by Joshua Rovner
• Alhurra, the Free One: Assessing U.S. Satellite Television in the Middle East by Anne Marie Baylouny
• Economic Questions Raised in Iraq’s New Constitution by Robert Looney

Rethinking Humanitarianism

• Humanitarian Space in Insecure Environments: A Shifting Paradigm by Karen Guttieri

Political Reform in Japan

• Koizumi’s 'Small Government' and Japan Post's Privatization: Political Reform without Substance by Izumi Wakugawa

 Volume IV, Issue 10 (October 2005)

Comparative Strategic Culture

• Comparative Strategic Culture by Elizabeth L. Stone, Christopher P. Twomey, and Peter R. Lavoy
• Strategic Culture: From Clausewitz to Constructivism by Jeffrey S. Lantis
• Strategic Culture: Reviewing Recent Literature by Darryl Howlett
• Culture Versus Structure in Post-9/11 Security Studies by Michael C. Desch
• Comparative Strategic Culture: The Case of Pakistan by Feroz Hassan Khan
• Pakistan’s Strategic Culture: A Theoretical Excursion by Peter R. Lavoy
• The Importance of Treating Culture as a System: Lessons on Counter-Insurgency Strategy from the British Iraqi Mandate by Maj. William D. Casebeer, USAF
• Chinese Doctrines as Strategic Culture: Assessing their Effects by Christopher P. Twomey
• Strategic Culture and China: IR Theory Versus the Fortune Cookie? by Andrew Scobell

Spotlight on Northeast Asia

• If the United States Had 'No' Policy Toward North Korea by Edward A. Olsen

 Volume IV, Issue 9 (September 2005)

U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue

• Conference Report: U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue by Christopher P. Twomey, Peter R. Lavoy, and Elizabeth L. Stone of NPS, and Ralph Cossa of Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• China’s New Leadership and Strategic Relations with the United States by Jia Qingguo
• Chinese Nuclear Policy and the Future of Minimum Deterrence by Yao Yunzhu
• The U.S.-China Strategic Relationship by Michael May
• Confronting Gathering Threats: U.S. Strategic Policy by Michael Nacht

Tactics of Terror

• Some Thoughts on the London Bombs by Maria Rasmussen
• Hamas: A Further Exploration of Jihadist Tactics by LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, USN

 Volume IV, Issue 8 (August 2005)

Suicide Terrorism Comes to Europe

• Terrorism: London Public Transport—July 7, 2005 by Glen M. Segell
• Terror and Terrorism: A History of Ideas and Philosophical-Ethical Reflections by Brig. Gen. Edwin R. Micewski

At the Ballot Box: Iran and Iraq in Transition

• Op/Ed: The Causes and Consequences of Iran’s June 2005 Presidential Election by Mark Gasiorowski
• Russian-Iranian Relations: Outlook for Cooperation with the “Axis of Evil” by Maj. Edward A. O’Connor, USAF
• A Plan for Revitalizing the Iraqi Economy by Robert Looney

Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia

• What is Driving India's and Pakistan's Interest in Joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization? by Maj. Jefferson E. Turner, USAF

 Volume IV, Issue 7 (July 2005)

African Security Dilemma

• Raison d’État Unleashed: Understanding Rwanda’s Foreign Policy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Marcus Curtis

Strategy and the GWOT

• Fight Them Forward by CDR R.B. Watts, USCG
• Suicide Terrorism as Strategy: Case Studies of Hamas and the Kurdistan Workers Party by Ali Wyne
• Iraq, U.S. Policy, and the Future of the Transatlantic Alliance by LTC David R. Draeger, U.S. Army

Spotlight on South Asia Security

• Interview with Brig Feroz Hassan Khan by Ms. Garima Singh
• Path to Kashmir Resolution will be Arduous, but Uneasy Truce Should Hold by Matt Taylor

Book Review

• Recent Books on Iran, Islamic Militancy, and the Near East by LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, USN

 Volume IV, Issue 6 (June 2005)

Middle East in Transition: Lessons and Insights

• Labor Market Impediments to Stability in Iraq by Robert Looney
• Exploiting Weakness in the Far Enemy Ideology by Jeannie L. Johnson
• When Wars Collide: The War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror by Steven L. Taylor
• The First World War Mesopotamian Campaigns: Military Lessons on Iraqi Ground Warfare by LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein

The Endurance of Authoritarianism

• Quo Vadis Thailand? Thai Politics after the 2005 Parliamentary Election by Aurel Croissant and Daniel J. Pojar, Jr.
• The Democratic Imperative vs. the Authoritarian Impulse: The Maghreb State between Transition and Terrorism by John P. Entelis

Technology, Security, and the Atlantic Alliance

• European Perceptions of U.S. High-Technology and Defense Strategies since the Final Days of the Cold War: A Sine Qua Non Research Agenda? by Sorin Lungu

 Volume IV, Issue 5 (May 2005)

Social Mobilization and Conflict Analyses

• Introduction to the Special Issue: Mobilizing from Bosnia to Bolivia by Anne Marie Baylouny
• The Explanatory Value of Social Movement Theory by Maj. Jennifer Chandler
• Terrorist Motivations for the Use of Extreme Violence by Maj. Jaime Gomez, Jr.

The Middle East

• Stories, Stakeholder Expansion, and Surrogate Consciousness: Using Innovations in Social Movement Theory to Understand and Influence Hizballah’s Developmental Trajectory by Maj. William D. Casebeer and Maj. Timothy A. Kraner
• Analysis of Sunni-Based Opposition in Iraq by Maj. Timothy Haugh
• The Sadr II Movement: An Organizational Fight for Legitimacy within the Iraqi Shi’a Community by Maj. Timothy Haugh
• Framing the Zionist Movement: The Effects of Zionist Discourse on the Arab-Israeli Peace Process by Capt. Nicole M. Harris

International Movements

• Development of the "American" Democracy Transnational Social Movement by Capt. M. Elizabeth Smith
• Exploring Muslim Diaspora Communities in Europe through a Social Movement Lens: Some Initial Thoughts by Maj. Tara Leweling

Islamic Movements in the Balkans

• Bosnia and Herzegovina—Islamic Revival, International Advocacy Networks and Islamic Terrorism by CPT Velko Attanassoff

Latin America Update

• Harvesting the Past: The Social Mobilization of Bolivia’s Indigenous Peoples by Maj. R.J. Schmidt
• The Maras and National Security in Central America by Thomas C. Bruneau

 Volume IV, Issue 4 (April 2005)

Technology Innovation & Homeland Security

• The Atlantis Garrison: A Comprehensive, Cost Effective Cargo and Port Security Strategy by Michael J. Hillyard
• Rethinking Innovation: Disruptive Technology and Strategic Response with CAPT Terry C. Pierce

• Understanding Jihadi Networks by Marc Sageman
• Syria’s Threat to America’s National Interest by Hamoud Salhi
• The Heikal Papers: A Discourse on Politics and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser by LCDR Youssef Aboul-Enein, MSC, USN

 Volume IV, Issue 3 (March 2005)

In The Shadows: Re-Imagining The Middle East

• Corruption’s Reflection: Iraq’s Shadow Economy by Robert Looney
• Storytelling and Terrorism: Towards a Comprehensive 'Counter-Narrative Strategy' by William D. Casebeer and James A. Russell
• The Clerics, the Sahwa and the Saudi State by Toby Craig Jones
• 9/11: Wahabism/Hegemony and Agenic Man/Heroic Masculinity by Glen M. Segell

 Volume IV, Issue 2 (February 2005)

Bush's Second Term: The Challenges Ahead

• Elections in Iraq: Managing Expectations by Karen Guttieri
• Rumors in Iraq: A Guide to Winning Hearts and Minds by Capt. Stephanie Kelley
• Bush’s Foreign Policy toward Security of the Korean Peninsula: The Second Term by M.G. Kyoo Kim
• Unrest in South Thailand: Contours, Causes, and Consequences Since 2001 by Aurel Croissant
• Dissuasion and Allies by David Yost
• An Interagency Approach to U.S. Port Security by Andrew C. Henrikson

 Volume IV, Issue 1 (January 2005)

Terrorism Financing & State Responses in Comparative Perspective

• Conference Report: Terrorism Financing & State Responses in Comparative Perspective by Jeanne Giraldo, Harold Trinkunas, and Barry Zellen
• Anti-Terror Strategy, the 9/11 Commission Report & Terrorism Financing: Implications for U.S. Policymakers by Raphael Perl  
• U.S. and International Responses to Terrorist Financing by Anne L. Clunan
• Warning Indicators, Terrorist Finances, and Terrorist Adaptation by Phil Williams
• Al Qaeda Finances and Funding to Affiliated Groups by Victor Comras
• The Greedy Terrorist: A Rational-Choice Perspective on Terrorist Organizations’ Inefficiencies and Vulnerabilities by Jacob Shapiro

Strategic Opportunities to Defeat Terror

• U.S. Middle East Economic Policy: Are Trade-Based Initiatives an Effective Tool in the War on Terrorism? by Robert Looney
• Outthinking the AIF by Maj William C. Thomas, USAF

 Volume III, Issue 12 (December 2004)

Transforming the Middle East - Feature Stories

• Why Has Globalization Eluded the Middle East? by Robert Looney  
• Changing Paths: Evaluating U.S. Policy toward Lebanon by Maj. Raymond L. Reyes, USAF
• The Sources of Terrorist Conduct by J. Michael Barrett Op/Ed
• Information Wars: Are the Iraqis Getting the Message? by Bill Putnam Homeland Security
• Preventing Armageddon II : Confronting the Specter of Agriterror by Barry Zellen Letter to the Editor
• The U.S. Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater System Will Play an Important Role in Improving U.S. Maritime Security by RADM Patrick Stillman

 Volume III, Issue 11 (November 2004)

WMD Proliferation & Operational Realities

• Why The Other Services Should Examine The Air Force’s Counter-CW CONOPS by Maj. Lawrence Pravecek, USAF 
• Korean Reunification: The Nuclear Factor by Edward A. Olsen
• Preventing Armageddon I: Enhancing America's Border & Port Security After 9/11 by Barry Zellen

Confronting Regional Threats

• Carrots or Sticks? Libya and U.S. Efforts to Influence Rogue States by LT Jamie Ann Calabrese, USN
• Corruption in the Middle East: Challenges Posed for the United States by Robert Looney
• The Falklands War: Causes and Lessons by 2nd Lt. Jason McClure, USAF

 Volume III, Issue 10 (October 2004)

Dissuasion In Theory: Organizational & Theoretical Concepts

• Dissuasion: Conceptual, Planning and Organizational Challenges for the U.S. Combatant Commands by Gregory F. Giles
• Force Posture and Dissuasion by M. Elaine Bunn
• The Role of Dissuasion in Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction by Colonel Chuck Lutes
• Dissuasion of Terrorists and Other Non-State Actors by Joseph F. Pilat
• Dissuasion and the NPT Regime: Complementary or Contradictory Strategies? by Scott D. Sagan

Dissuasion In Practice: Case Studies

• Dissuasion and China by Brad Roberts
• Dissuasion in America's Russia Policy by James M. Goldgeier
• Dissuasion and Confrontation: U.S. Policy in India-Pakistan Crises by John H. Gill
• Dissuasion and Regional Allies: The Case of Pakistan by Brig. Gen. (retd.) Feroz Hassan Khan and Christopher Clary

Conference Reports

• Dissuasion in U.S. Defense Strategy by Peter R. Lavoy, Barry Zellen, and Christopher Clary
• Capabilities-Based Defense Planning: Building a 21st Century Force by James Russell, Lashley Pulsipher, and Barry Zellen

 Volume III, Issue 9 (September 2004)

• Why We Must Take European Opinion Seriously by Major Thomas S. Mowle, U.S. Air Force Academy
• Roadmap for Middle Eastern Reforms: A Stage Theory Approach by Robert E. Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Theater Nuclear Weapons in Europe: The Contemporary Debate by Major Brian Polser, USAF
• Imperial Hubris: A Review by James H. Joyner, Jr.
• Adventure of the "Nuclear Briefcase" by Mikhail Tsypkin, Naval Postgraduate School

 Volume III, Issue 8 (August 2004)

• Did Reagan Win the Cold War? by Jeffrey Knopf, Naval Postgraduate School
• The Broader Middle East Initiative: Requirements for Success in the Gulf by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Suicide Terrorism: Rationalizing the Irrational by Julian Madsen, Independent Analyst
• North Korea: A Crisis in the Making by Damon Coletta, U.S. Air Force Academy
• Iraq Now: Choosing Sovereignty or Democracy by Barak Salmoni, Naval Postgraduate School
• Strategic Stability in South Asia by Peter R. Lavoy and Christopher Clary
• Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East by James R. Russell and Lashley Pulsipher

 Volume III, Issue 7 (July 2004)

• Iraq and Jihadist Terrorists: A Review Essay by James H. Joyner, Jr., Strategic Insights
• A Return to Baathists Economics? Escaping Vicious Circles in Iraq by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Ismail Khan, Herat, and Iranian Influence by Thomas H. Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
• The Proliferation Security Initiative: Counterproliferation at the Crossroads by Erin E. Harbaugh, Presidential Management Fellow

 Volume III, Issue 6 (June 2004)

• Korea: A U.S. Foreign Policy Side Show by Major Dan Orcutt, USAF
• Neoliberalism in a Conflict State: The Viability of Economic Shock Therapy in Iraq by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Assessing the International Response to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator by Brett L. Marvin, Firstwatch International
• Iranian Politics After the 2004 Parliamentary Election by Mark Gasiorowski, Louisiana State University
• How Bush Was "Churchilled" in Iraq by Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School
• The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery, by Wolfgang Schivelbusch reviewed by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School

 Volume III, Issue 5 (May 2004)

• The Dog That Won't Wag: Presidential Uses of Force and the Diversionary Theory of War by William D. Baker, Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
• Politics in a Stabilizing Democracy: South Africa's 2004 Elections by Jessica Piombo, Naval Postgraduate School
• Banking on Baghdad: Financial Change in Postwar Iraq by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Thinking About Deterrence: Credibility and Warfighting by Clifton Sherrill, Florida State University
• The U.S.-Shi'ite Relationship in a New Iraq: Better than the British? by William O. Beeman, Brown University
• A New Nuclear Order: The Need for Introspection in U.S. Nonproliferation Policy by Tom Sauer, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies, by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit reviewed by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School

 Volume III, Issue 4 (April 2004)

• Democratic Inclusion: A Solution to Militancy in Islamist Movements? by Anne Marie Baylouny, Naval Postgraduate School
• Create a New Era of Islamic-Western Relations By Supporting Community Development by Jason Ben-Meir, University of New Mexico, Alburquerque
• India and the Gulf After Saddam by Stephen Blank, U.S. Army War College
• Russia—A Partner for the U.S. in the Post-Saddam Middle East? by Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
• Combating Terrorism Through Reforms: Implications of the Bremer-Kasarda Model for Saudi Arabia by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Money and Terror by Laura Napoleoni, author of Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
• Europe, America and the "War on Terror" by Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School
• Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations, by Stephen C. Schlesinger reviewed by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School
• Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy Since the Cold War, by Philip Robins reviewed by Barak Salmoni, Naval Postgraduate School

 Volume III, Issue 3 (March 2004)

• Violent Non-State Actors: Countering Dynamic Systems by Maj. Troy S. Thomas, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Maj. William D. Casebeer, USAF Academy
• The United States and a Gulf Security Architecture: Policy Considerations by Joseph McMillan, National Defense University
• The Goal of North Korean Brinkmanship: Mediation by Edward Olsen, Naval Postgraduate School
• Development Strategies for Saudi Arabia: Escaping the Rentier State Syndrome by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Libya's Return to the Fold? by Christopher Boucek, Homeland Security and Resilience Monitor
• Less Interesting Than '60 Minutes': Recent NSA Releases Add Little to the U.S.S. Liberty Debate by Aaron Mucciolo, Naval Postgraduate School
• Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the 16th Century, by John Francis Guilmartin reviewed by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School

 Volume III, Issue 2 (February 2004)

• Rogue or Responsible Nuclear Power? Making Sense of Pakistan's Nuclear Practices
  by Peter R. Lavoy and Feroz Hassan Khan, Naval Postgraduate School
• Saudi Arabia at a Crossroads? Notes from a Recent Visit
  by F. Gregory Gause, III, University of Vermont
• Saudization and Sound Economic Reforms: Are the Two Compatible?
  by Robert Looney, Naval Postgraduate School
• Unthinking the Unthinkable: U.S. Nuclear Policy and Asymmetric Threats
  by Wade L. Huntley, Hiroshima Peace Institute
• "An Outline of the Most Superior Fundamentals in the Art of Kidnapping Americans"
  analyzed by Barak A. Salmoni, Naval Postgraduate School; and Capt. Jeremy Waller, USAF
• A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era, by Matthew Connelly
  reviewed by Daniel Moran, Naval Postgraduate School
• America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq, by James Dobbins
  reviewed by Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School

 Volume III, Issue 1 (January 2004)

• Emotions, Poverty, or Politics: Misconceptions About Islamic Movements, by Anne Marie Baylouny
• Saddam's Capture and the New Political Order, by James A. Russell
• Can Saudi Arabia Reform its Economy in Time to Head Off Disaster?, by Robert Looney
• Winds of Peace in South Asia: Are They Real?, by Surinder Rana
• Rethinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and the War on Terror, by Barry Zellen
• Predicting Nuclear Proliferation: A Declassified Documentary Record, by Peter R. Lavoy
• Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991, reviewed by Daniel Moran
• Islamic Political Identity in Turkey, reviewed by Barak A. Salmoni

 Volume II, Issue 12 (December 2003)

• Electoral Survival of the Most Corrupt? Azerbaijan, Georgia, and American Regional Goals by Barak A. Salmoni
• Thaksinomics: A New Asian Paradigm? by Robert Looney

 Volume II, Issue 11 (November 2003)

• Regime Change in Iran: An Analytic Framework by Lt. Frank Okata
• From Petrodollars to Petroeuros: Are the Dollar's Days as an International Reserve Currency Drawing to an End? by Robert Looney
• Countering the al-Qaeda WMD Threat by Jack Boureston and Charles Mahaffey

 Volume II, Issue 10 (October 2003)

• "In Defense of the Nation": Terror and Reform in Saudi Arabia by James A. Russell
• Al-Qaeda and Mass Casualty Terrorism: Assessing the Threat by Jack Boureston and Charles Mahaffey
• The Role of Preventive Strikes in Counterproliferation Strategy: Two Case Studies by Claire Rak
• The Future of the U.S.-South Korea Alliance by VADM Young-Kil Suh, ROKN (ret)
• The Cancun Conundrum: What Future for the World Trade Organization (WTO)? by Robert Looney
• Regime Change in Iran: An Analytic Framework by Lt. Frank Okata

 Volume II, Issue 9 (September 2003)

• DARPA's Policy Analysis Market for Intelligence: Outside the Box or Off the Wall? by Robert Looney
• The Uprising by Daniel Moran
• Turkey's Summer 2003 Legislative Reforms: EU Avalanche, Civil-Military Revolution, or Islamist Assertion? by Barak A. Salmoni
• The RMA and War Powers by Lukasz Kamienski

 Volume II, Issue 8 (August 2003)

• Occupation of Iraq: Geostrategic and Institutional Challenges by James A. Russell
• The Neoliberal Model's Planned Role in Iraq's Economic Transition by Robert Looney
• The Roadmap: A Phased Vision for Israel and Palestine by Barak A. Salmoni
• Kashmir: Proxy War to Proxy Peace by Surinder Rana
• Homeland Security and U.S. Civil-Military Relations by Karen Guttieri

 Volume II, Issue 7 (July 2003)

• Iraqi Oil: A Gift from God or the Devil's Excrement? by Robert Looney
• Strategic Partners or Estranged Allies: Turkey, the United States, and Operation Iraqi Freedom by Barak A. Salmoni

 Volume II, Issue 6 (June 2003)

• Confronting Euro-Atlantic Security Challenges by James J. Wirtz
• Tribal Tendencies, Global Realities: Islamic Group Dynamics in the Modern World by Brendan Wilson
• Bean Counting in Baghdad: Debt, Reparations, Reconstruction, and Resources
  by Robert Looney
• The Import of Nigeria's April 2003 Elections by Jessica Piombo

 Volume II, Issue 5 (May 2003)

• Political and Economic Transition on the Arabian Peninsula: Perils and Prospects by James A. Russell
• The Lessons of a Successful Military Occupation by Michael Bernhard
• Where Are Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction? by Ibrahim al-Marashi
• A Monetary/Exchange Rate Strategy for the Reconstruction of Iraq
  by Robert Looney
• Economic Stress and Instability in the Arab World by Paul Sullivan
• The Future of the U.S. Navy in a Post-Saddam Persian Gulf by Claire Rak
• The Moscow Hostage Crisis: An Analysis of Chechen Terrorist Goals by John J. Donahoe
• Countdown in Korea by Wade L. Huntley
• In Search of Stability: NATO's Strategic Crossroads by LTC Brendan Wilson

 Volume II, Issue 4 (April 2003)

• Oil Prices and the Iraq War: Market Interpretations of Military Developments
  by Robert E. Looney
• U.S.-North Korea: From Brinkmanship to Dialogue by Edward A. Olsen
• Appeasement by Daniel Moran
• NATO Response Force: Political Deftness, Economic Efficiency, Military Power by LTC Stephen J. Mariano (USA) and LTC Brendan Wilson (USA)
• Explosive Remnants of War: The Problem by Roman Hunger
• Explosive Remnants of War: The Way Forward by Roman Hunger
• Comparing the Nuclear and Information RMAs by Lukasz Kamienski
• Strategy for Cooks by Daniel Moran

 Volume II, Issue 3 (March 2003)

• Germany, Japan and the "De-Baathification" of Iraq by Douglas Porch
• Iraq War Will Not End Inspection Challenges by Jeffrey W. Knopf
• Economic Integration in the Gulf: Does the Future Hold More Promise Than the Past? by Robert E. Looney
• Post-Election Jammu and Kashmir by Surinder Rana
• Colombia: Conflict and Civil-Military Relations by Thomas C. Bruneau
• The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons by Roman Hunger

 Volume II, Issue 2 (February 2003)

• Removal of Saddam: The End of an Era by James A. Russell
• Post-Conflict Iraq: Prospects and Problems by Karen Guttieri
• Democracy in Iraq? by Ibrahim al-Marashi
• Desperately Seeking Saddam by Daniel Moran
• Supreme Command and Strategic Purpose in Iraq by Ehsan Ahrari
• Failed Economic Take-Offs and Terrorism: Conceptualizing a Proper Role for U.S. Assistance to Pakistan by Robert E. Looney
• The Risk of Inadvertent Nuclear Use Between India and Pakistan by Peter R. Lavoy and MAJ Steven A. Smith
• The Big Bang of NATO Enlargement: Goetterdaemmerung or Rebirth? by Donald Abenheim
• A Strategic Response to Terrorism: A Framework for U.S. Policy by James M. Smith

 Volume II, Issue 1 (January 2003)

• The Return of Strategy by James J. Wirtz
• Contingencies: Iraq and North Korea by Daniel Moran
• Financing Wars on Terrorism and Iraq by Robert E. Looney
• Rough Neighbors: Afghanistan and Pakistan by Brigadier Feroz Hassan Khan
• Coping with Dual Korean Problems by Edward A. Olsen
• The PLA and China's Changing Security Environment by Major Christopher B. Pultz, USA

 Volume I, Issue 10 (December 2002)

• The Other "Gulf War"—The British Invasion of Iraq, 1941 by Douglas Porch
• Kick-Starting India-Pakistan Negotiations: Constraints and Opportunities by T.V. Paul
• IMF Stabilization Programs and the War on Terrorism: Conflicting or Complementary Objectives in Pakistan? by Robert E. Looney
• What's New in the New U.S. Strategy to Combat WMD? by Peter Lavoy
• Trouble—Pearl Harbor and 9/11 by Daniel Moran
• Homeland Security: Intelligence Indications and Warning by Lt. Col Kenneth A. Luikart, USAF
• Deterring Violent Non-State Actors in the New Millenium by Maj William Casebeer, USAF and Maj Troy Thomas, USAF
• Military Strategy for Transformation: NATO's Rubicon by Brendan L. Wilson

 Volume I, Issue 9 (November 2002)

• Preventive War Against Iraq by James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz
• Preventive War and the Crisis of July, 1914 by Daniel Moran
• Following the Terrorist Informal Money Trail: The Hawala Financial Mechanism by Robert E. Looney
• North Korea's Nuclear Acknowledgement: Motivations and Risks by Edward A. Olsen

 Volume I, Issue 8 (October 2002)

• Deterrence and Preemption by Daniel Moran
• Odium of the Mesopotamia Entanglement by James A. Russell
• China and the Iraq Question by H. Lyman Miller
• Problems in Using Trade to Counter Terrorism: The Case of Pakistan by Robert E. Looney

 Volume I, Issue 7 (September 2002)

• Comparing Threats from Saddam and bin Laden by Surinder Rana
• Deconstructing the U.S.-Saudi Partnership? by James A. Russell
• Where is Iran Headed? by Ahmad Ghoreishi
• Assessing Al Qaeda's WMD Capabilities by Jack Boureston
• A U.S. Strategy for Achieving Stability in Pakistan: Expanding Educational Opportunities by Robert Looney
• The Limits of Chinese-Russian Strategic Collaboration by H. Lyman Miller
• Constituting the Uyghur in U.S.-China Relations: The Geopolitics of Identity Formation in the War on Terrorism by Gaye Christoffersen
• Kosovo: Time for the Hard Decisions by John Zavales
• Surprise and Intelligence Failure by Douglas Porch and James J. Wirtz
• The Geneva Conventions, POWs, and the War on Terrorism by Daniel Moran

 Volume I, Issue 6 (August 2002)

• "Illegal Combatants" and the Law of Armed Conflict by Daniel Moran
• Nuclear Weapons, War with Iraq, and U.S. Security Strategy in the Middle East by James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz
• The Loya Jirga, Ethnic Rivalry and Future Afghan Stability by Thomas H. Johnson
• India and Pakistan at the Precipice: Two Views, by Surinder Rana and Feroz Hassan Khan
• China's Upcoming Leadership Changes and the PLA by H. Lyman Miller
• The Economic Costs of 9/11 by Robert Looney
• Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security by Ralph Norman Channell
• Pakistan's Challenges and the Need for a Balanced Solution by Brigadier General Feroz Hassan Khan
• Emerging Reconcilation Amidst Continuing Military Impasse by Surinder Rana

 Volume I, Issue 5 (July 2002)

• The New Nuclear Pact and the Post Cold-War Arms Agenda by Jeffrey W. Knopf
• Bush Enters the Middle East Fray by Glenn E. Robinson
• WMD Proliferation and Conventional Counterforce: The Case of Iraq by James A. Russell
• The Role of Foreign Aid in the War on Terrorism by Robert Looney
• Beijing and the American War on Terrorism by H. Lyman Miller
• Negative Security Assurances and the Nuclear Posture Review by James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz

 Volume I, Issue 4 (June 2002)

• Anniversary: The Battle of Midway by Douglas Porch and James J. Wirtz
• Shibboleth Slaying in a Post-Saddam Iraq by James A. Russell
• Rebuilding Afghanistan by Robert Looney
• Reconciliation in South Asia? by Surinder Rana

 Volume I, Issue 3 (May 2002)

• After Arafat by Glenn Robinson
• Will Saddam Seek to Extend His Presidency? by Fouad El Khatib
• Civil-Military Relations in Venezuela after 11 April: Beyond Repair? by Harold A. Trinkunas
• NORTHCOM to Coordinate DoD Role in Homeland Defense by James A. Russell
• A Quiet Revolution: The New Nuclear Triad by James Russell and James J. Wirtz

 Volume I, Issue 2 (April 2002)

• Iraq: Next Phase in the Campaign? by James A. Russell and Iliana Bravo
• Iraq: The Weapons Inspection Conundrum by Jack Boureston and James A. Russell
• Afghanistan Military Campaign Enters New Phase, by Surinder Rana
• Enduring Freedom for Central Asia? by Elizabeth Skinner

 Volume I, Issue 1 (March 2002)

• Russia's Military and Operation Enduring Freedom by Mikhail Tsypkin
• Will the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Impede the War on Terrorism? by Glenn Robinson
• U.S. Security Architecture in the Gulf: Elements and Challenges by James A. Russell and Iliana Bravo
• Current WMD Challenges in the Middle East by Peter Lavoy, Jack Boureston, and James A. Russell
• Standoff Between India and Pakistan, by Peter R. Lavoy and Surinder Rana
• Pakistan: Coming out of Praetorian Shadows, by Surinder Rana
• The War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Searching for Partners, Delimiting Targets by Gaye Christoffersen
• Financial and Political Crisis in Argentina: Walking a Wobbly Tightrope by Harold A. Trinkunas and Jack Boureston
• Homeland Defense: Ramping Up, But What's the Glide Path? by James A. Russell and Iliana Bravo