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Faculty Publications

NSA faculty regularly publish research on current and emerging security issues. A selection of our recent books, book chapters/monographs, and journal articles are listed here.

Books

Anne Clunan, The Social Construction of Russia’s Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

Daniel Moran and James A. Russell, eds. Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management (Abington, UK, and New York: Routledge, 2009).

James Clay Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 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).

Edward Olsen, U.S. National Defense Policy in the 21st Century: A Grand Exit Strategy (in Mandarin translation).

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).

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). 

Harold Trinkunas and Jeanne Giraldo, eds., Terrorism Financing and State Response in Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, March 2007).

Daniel Moran, Wars of National Liberation (Smithsonian Books, 2006), part of the Smithsonian History of Warfare series.

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).

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).

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).

Douglas Porch, Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).

James J. Wirtz and Loch Johnson, eds., Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World (Roxbury Publishing Company, 2004).


Chapters/Reports

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.

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), forthcoming).

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.)

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. October 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.


Journal Articles

Jeffrey Knopf, "Wrestling with Deterrence: Bush Administration Strategy after 9/11," Contemporary Security Policy 29, no. 2 (August 2008).

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).

Sophal Ear, "Book Review: International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding & Dancing in Shadows," Contemporary Southeast Asia 30, no. 1 (April 2008): 140-143.

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.

Abbas Kadhim, "Hisham b. Salim al-Jawaliqi" and "Ahmad b. Mohammad al-Jawhari," Encyclopedia Iranica.

Clay Moltz, "The Past, Present, and Future of Space Security," Brown Journal of International Affairs (Summer-Fall 2007). 

Clay Moltz, "U.S. Shouldn't Overreact to [China's] Anti-Satellite Test--'Arms Race' is Misguided," San Francisco Chronicle , Sunday Insight Section, July 15, 2007, D1.

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.

James A. Russell, "Ideas and Foreign Policy: The Future of U.S. Relations with the Middle East," Europe and the Gulf, Instituto Per GLI Studi di Politica Internatzionale, Milan Italy, May 2007.

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).

Chris Twomey, Book Review of Jean Garrison, Making China Policy: From Nixon to G. W. Bush ( New York, NY: Lynne Rienner, 2005), Political Psychology 28, no. 1 (2007): 138-42.

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 & Maj. Michael Binney, "Joint Close Air Support Training Transformation," Marine Corp 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.