This working paper considers the global redistribution of economic power and defense spending between the 1990s and 2020s--with a focus on the U.S., China and Russia--on the basis of World Bank data, and its implications for the military balance today

In the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War's escalation, and the vagaries of the conflict (e.g. reports of NATO "running out of weapons") the military-industrial balance between NATO and Russia has acquired a new topicality. This note attempts a comprehensive comparison of NATO (and more...

This note examines the four major West European military powers--namely Britain, France, Germany and Italy--with a focus on their post-Cold War contraction and restructuring; the numerous driving pressures and rationales of that process; and, in today's differing circumstances with their higher...

This working paper examines the decline of the "unipolarity" of the international system of the early post-Cold War period, concentrating specifically on the military dimension of the phenomenon, and the role three developments played in that decline, namely1. The redistribution of economic...