Cyber technology represents digital military capability with the purpose of causing damage to the military strength and the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war using cyber technology. This paper introduces such...

Military technonationalism and the drive for indigenous arms manufacturing -- Military modernization in the Asia-Pacific : an overview -- China -- India -- The Republic of Korea -- Other Asian arms producers : Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- Conclusions : the future of military technonationalism in...

Introduction : the political economy of engagement -- The political economy of North Korea : the paradigmatic hard target -- North Korea's external economic relations -- The dilemmas of humanitarian assistance : the political economy of food -- The microeconomics of engagement -- Negotiating on...

Im Verlauf der letzten Dekade konnten die IBSA-Staaten (Indien, Brasilien, Südafrika) ihre Position in der sich verschiebenden Weltordnung erheblich verbessern; das gilt insbesondere für ihren Einfluss auf globale Handelsfragen. Lässt sich ein ähnlicher Aufstieg der IBSAStaaten in der...

According to conventional wisdom, strategic natural resources like oil are harmful to international peace. Nonetheless, there is little empirical quantitative work on the link between resource abundance and interstate conflicts. Analyzing the impact of oil on militarized interstate disputes on a...

American military strategy and grand strategy -- Army and Marine Corps force structure -- Air Force and Navy Force structure -- Modernization -- Nuclear weapons, missile defense, and intelligence -- Military compensation and Pentagon reforms -- Conclusion-and the implications of prolonged...