A Convincing Finnish Move: Implications for State Identity of Persuading Sweden to Jointly Bid for NATO Membership
Author: Stefan Lundqvist (Swedish Defence University) This publication was released as part of the SMA project “21st Century Strategic Deterrence Frameworks.” (SDF) For more information regarding this project, please click here. Publication Preview This article examines the consequences for Sweden’s state identity by the decision of Finland andSweden to apply for membership in NATO. Taking […]
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Russian Strategic Deterrence Frameworks
Author: Dr. Graeme Herd (George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies) This publication was released as part of the SMA project “21st Century Strategic Deterrence Frameworks.” (SDF) For more information regarding this project, please click here. Publication Preview This paper is structured around four key sections, each answering a core question. First,what is the […]
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China’s Three Roads to Controlling Taiwan
Speakers: Dr. Dan Blumenthal (AEI) & Frederick W. Kagan (AEI); Jack Gaines, Moderator (One CA Podcast) Date: 27 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary The increasing political and military tensions between China and Taiwan are frequently discussed in Western media. During these discussions, politicians and pundits point out Taiwan’s strategic importance to the US and China, […]
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Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship
Speakers: Dr. Rose McDermott (Brown University) and Dr. Paul Slovic (Brown University) Date: 28 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. Rose McDermott (Brown University) and Dr. Paul Slovic (Brown University) as part of its SMA “Strategic Deterrence Frameworks” (SDF) Speaker Series. The world has not experienced a global military conflict since […]
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Freedom in the World 2023: Marking 50 Years in the Struggle for Democracy
Speaker: Yana Gorokhovskaia (Freedom House) Date: 20 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary For fifty years, Freedom House has published its assessment of the state of democracy around the world. Freedom House categorizes countries and territories in to three groups based off a point system: 1) free, 2) partly free, and 3) not free. Dr. Gorokhovskaia […]
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The Minds and Actions of Devoted Actors and the Will to Fight: A Behavioral and Brain Studies Approach to War and Extreme Group Conflict
Speaker: Dr. Scott Atran (University of Michigan) Date: 12 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary What drives warfighters to make costly sacrifices—including their lives—is a long-standing question that military and civilian leaders have tried to answer. Dr. Atran explained that this question can be studied through two different psychological models: 1) rational choice theory and 2) […]
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Russia’s Role in Global Nuclear Supply Chains
Speaker: Ms. Darya Dolzikova (RUSI) Date: 12 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary Ms. Dolzikova discussed how Russia’s civil nuclear sector has largely evaded the sanctions placed on the rest of the Russian economy since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. During her presentation she outlined the drivers of the global dependency on Russia’s civil […]
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Tri-polar Deterrence
Author: Dr. Frank Zagare (University of Buffalo) This publication was released as part of the SMA project “21st Century Strategic Deterrence Frameworks.” (SDF) For more information regarding this project, please click here. Publication Preview During the cold war the conventional wisdom was that an all-out war between the United States and theSoviet Union was all […]
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Strategic Culture Literature Review
Authors: Dr. Lawrence A. Kuznar (NSI, Inc.); Nathan Heath (NSI, Inc.); George Popp (NSI, Inc.) This publication was released as part of the SMA project “21st Century Strategic Deterrence Frameworks.” (SDF) For more information regarding this project, please click here. Publication Preview The concept of strategic culture emerges in discussions of both tailored and integrated […]
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Nuclear Intimidation: A Russian Success Story
Speaker: Professor Keir Giles (Chatham House) Date: 5 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary SMA hosted a speaker session with Prof. Keir Giles (Chathan House) as part of its SMA “Strategic Deterrence Frameworks” (SDF) Speaker Series. Russia’s long-term information operations (IO) and influence campaigns have altered how US and Western decision makers perceive the risk level of Russia […]
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