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Survival - Vol 51, No 6 - December 2009-January 2010

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Volume 51, Number 6 of Survival, the Institute's bi-monthly journal, has been published.

  

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Commentary

A Prudent Decision on Missile Defence

by Mark Fitzpatrick

 

Three Iraq Intelligence Failures Reconsidered

by David Hannay
 

Climate Change and Copenhagen: Many Paths Forward

by Paula J. Dobriansky and Vaughan C. Turekian
 

Great-Power Relations in Asia: A Japanese Perspective

by Yukio Okamoto

 Broken Trust

The Unravelling of the Cold War Settlement

by Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry

Russia’s posture towards the world, and towards the United States in particular, is marked by a narrative of grievance that the United States has abandoned the Cold War settlement as the framework for relations.

 

NATO, Missile Defence and Extended Deterrence

by Oliver Thränert

Obama’s April decision on missile defence sets the stage for an important reconsideration of the role of nuclear weapons in NATO’s defence plans.

 

 

Designing Security

South America: Framing Regional Security

by John Chipman and James Lockhart Smith

There is a both an opportunity and a need for Latin America collectively to cater more effectively for its own security over the next several years.

 

Structuring Middle East Security

by Peter Jones

No single regional security system can possibly address the many questions in play. Rather, it might be best to conceive of the road ahead as leading to a ‘system of systems’.

 

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China and the United States: Between Cold and Warm Peace

by Rosemary Foot

Cooperation between Washington and Beijing is vital to global and regional order, but it will be difficult to maintain.

 

Mekong Dams and the Perils of Peace

by Richard Cronin

The short-sighted pursuit of an old development paradigm is creating a new kind of transboundary threat to human security and regional peace and stability. 

 

Pakistan’s War Within

by C. Christine Fair and Seth G. Jones

Islamabad has demonstrated increasing resolve to defeat militants challenging the writ of the state, but problems of capability, doctrine and popular support remain.

 

Progress, Dissent and Counter-Insurgency: An Exchange

by Gian P. Gentile, Thomas Rid, Philipp Rotmann, David Tohn and Jaron Wharton

Experts debate military institutional culture and adaptation in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.

 

Review Essays

Secrets of a Chinese Patriot

by Dennis C. Wilder

 

Learning from Europe on Climate Change

by Andrew Holland

 

Closing Argument

Beijing Calling

by Adam Ward

 

Plus

Book Reviews

  • United States John L. Harper

  • Europe Hanns W. Maull

  • Counter-terrorism Jonathan Stevenson

 

Brief Notices

Noteworthy


 

 

 

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