The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is in the process of improving its nuclear forces as part of a larger modernization program. The ongoing modernization effort seems to include major new nuclear ...

How does a state achieve effective deterrence? Lithuania provides an example. Deterrence has always been a crucial element in ensuring one’s security. In classic international relations literature, ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Since 2001, the Border Crossing Observatory estimates 840 people have died between Australia and Indonesia, including ...

Whether in the White House Situation Room or around the water cooler of cybersecurity companies, there can never be too many conversations about cyber deterrence. All too often though, the ...

Since the 1990s, every four years (give or take) the Department of Defense (DOD) issues its major strategic planning document, the National Defense Strategy (NDS). And every four years, the strategic ...

Deterrence remains a useful concept so long as policy-makers account for the changing nature of warfare in the twenty-first century Deterrence is one of those ‘accepted’ doctrines used by governments ...

Russian troops block the Ukrainian military base in Perevalne during its 2014 annexation of Crimea. UC Davis political scientists have received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to study when ...

Jason Healey is senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and was a member of the Defense Science Board’s task force on cyber deterrence. You can ...

While China has engaged in nuclear deterrence since it exploded its first nuclear weapon in 1964, it has increasingly focused on “space deterrence.” This is partly due to China’s growing space ...

In 1948, psychologist B. F. Skinner conducted an experiment in which hungry pigeons were fed on a random schedule. Soon three-quarters of them were behaving in unusual ways, depending on what each had ...