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Working Papers

Title: United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Security Coopeeration in a Multipolar World
Authors: Mohammed El-Katiri
Date: October 2014

Title: Distinguishing Acts of War in Cyberspace: Assessment Criteria, Policy Considerations, and Response Implications
Authors: Jeffery L. Caton
Date: October 2014

Title: Turkey's New Regional Security Role: Implications for the United States
Authors: Richard Weitz
Date: September 2014

Title: After the Spring: Reforming Arab Armies
Authors: Florence Gaub
Date: September 2014

Title: A New Type of Great Power Relationship between the United States and China: The Military Dimension
Authors: Geoffrey Till
Date: September 2014

Title: Strategic Implications of the Evolving Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Authors: Henry Plater-Zyberk, Andrew Monaghan
Date: August 2014

Title: Russia and the Caspian Sea: Projecting Power or Competing for Influence?
Authors: Tracey German
Date: August 2014

Title: Russia's Contribution as a Partner in the War on Terrorism
Authors: Henry Plater-Zyberk
Date: July 2014

Title: Revival of Political Islam in the Aftermath of Arab Uprisings: Implications for the Region and Beyond
Authors: Mohammed El-Katiri
Date: July 2014

Title: European Missile Defense and Russia
Authors: Keir Giles, Andrew Monaghan
Date: July 2014

Title: The Paracel Islands and U.S. Interests and Approaches in the South China Sea
Date: June 2014

Title: Operational Reservations: Considerations for a Total Army Force
Authors: John D. Ellis, Laura McKnight Mackenzie
Date: June 2014

Title: Democratization and Instability in Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus
Authors: Robert Nalbandov
Date: June 2014

Title: Countering Radicalization and Recruitment to Al-Qaeda: Fighting the War of Deeds
Authors: Paul Kamolnick
Date: June 2014

Title: 2014-15 Key Strategic Issues List
Date: June 2014

Title: The Resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq
Authors: Azeem Ibrahim
Date: May 2014

Title: The Future of American Landpower: Does Forward Presence Still Matter? The Case of the Army in the Pacific
Authors: John R. Deni
Date: May 2014

Title: Soldiers of Misfortune?
Date: May 2014

Title: Islamism and Security in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Authors: Leslie S. Lebl
Date: May 2014

Title: From War to Deterrence? Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Since 2006
Authors: Jean-loup Samaan
Date: May 2014

Title: Legality in Cyberspace: An Adversary View
Authors: Keir Giles, Andrew Monaghan
Date: March 2014

Title: Politics and Economics in Putin's Russia
Authors: Stephen J. . Blank
Date: December 2013

Title: Africa's Booming Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production: National Security Implications for the United States and China
Authors: David E. Brown
Date: December 2013

Title: War and Insurgency in the Western Sahara
Authors: Geoffrey Jensen
Date: May 2013

Title: The Challenge of Drug Trafficking to Democratic Governance and Human Security in West Africa
Authors: David E. Brown
Date: May 2013

Title: Cyber Infrastructure Protection: Vol. II
Authors: Tarek N. Saadawi, Louis H. Jordan, Vincent Boudreau
Date: May 2013

Title: Sharing Power? Prospects for a U.S. Concert-Balance Strategy
Authors: Patrick Porter
Date: April 2013

Title: Egypt's New Regime and the Future of the U.S.-Egyptian Strategic Relationship
Authors: Gregory Aftandilian
Date: April 2013

Title: The Strategic Logic of the Contemporary Security Dilemma
Authors: Max G. Manwaring
Date: December 2011

Title: Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future
Authors: Stephen J. Blank (ed.)
Date: November 2011

Title: Forecasting Zero: U.S. Nuclear History and the Low Probability of Disarmament
Authors: Jonathan Pearl
Date: November 2011

Title: Chinese Lessons from Other Peoples' Wars
Authors: Andrew Scobell (ed.), David Lai (ed.), Roy Kamphausen (ed.)
Date: November 2011

Title: The Afghanistan Question and the Reset in U.S.-Russian Relations
Authors: Richard J. Krickus
Date: October 2011

Title: Natural Gas as an Instrument of Russian State Power
Authors: Alexander Ghaleb
Date: October 2011

Title: Mexico's "Narco-Refugees": The Looming Challenge for U.S. National Security
Authors: Paul Rexton Kan
Date: October 2011

Title: Arms Control and Proliferation Challenges to the Reset Policy
Authors: Stephen J. Blank
Date: October 2011

Title: Some of the Best Weapons for Counterinsurgents Do Not Shoot
Authors: Eric T. . Olson
Date: October 2010

Title: Harnessing Post-Conflict "Transitions": A Conceptual Primer
Authors: Nicholas J. Armstrong, Jacqueline Chura-Beaver.
Date: October 2010

Title: Somalia: Line in the Sand--Identification of MYM Vulnerabilities
Authors: Eloy E. Cuevas, Madeleine Wells
Date: September 2010

Title: Preparing for One War and Getting Another?
Authors: Antulio J. Echevarria
Date: September 2010

Title: An Army Transformed: The U.S. Army's Post-Vietnam Recovery and the Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
Authors: Suzanne C. Nielsen
Date: September 2010

Title: U.S. Military Forces and Police Assistance in Stability Operations: The Least-Worst Option to Fill the U.S. Capacity Gap
Authors: Dennis E Keller
Date: August 2010

Title: Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy
Authors: Hal Brands
Date: August 2010

Title: Chinese Energy Security: The Myth of the PLAN's Frontline Status
Authors: Ryan Clarke
Date: August 2010

Title: Sufism in Northern Nigeria: Force for Counter-Radicalization?
Authors: Jonathan N. C. Hill
Date: May 2010

Title: Security Sector Reform: A Case Study Approach to Transition and Capacity Building
Authors: Sarah Meharg, Aleisha Arnusch
Date: January 2010

Title: Medvedev's Plan: Giving Russia a Voice but not a Veto in a New European Security System
Authors: Richard J. Krickus
Date: December 2009

Title: An All Hazards Training Center for a Catastrophic Emergency
Authors: Xavier Stewart
Date: December 2009

Title: YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer
Authors: Cori E. Dauber
Date: November 2009

Title: India's Strategic Defense Transformation: Expanding Global Relationships
Authors: Brian K. Hedrick
Date: November 2009

Title: Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Colombia
Authors: Gabriel Marcella
Date: November 2009

Title: The Army's Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict
Authors: Don M. Snider, Major Paul Oh, Kevin Toner.
Date: October 2009

Title: Talent: Implications for a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy
Authors: Casey Wardynski, David S. Lyle, Michael J. Colarusso.
Date: October 2009

Title: Schools for Strategy: Teaching Strategy for 21st Century Conflict
Authors: Colin S. Gray
Date: October 2009

Title: The North Korean Ballistic Missile Program
Authors: Daniel Pinkston
Date: February 2008

Title: Dissent and Strategic Leadership of the Military Professions
Authors: Don Snider
Date: February 2008

Title: Developing Strategic Leaders for the 21st Century
Date: February 2008

Title: Women in Combat Compendium
Authors: Michele Putco
Date: January 2008

Title: Transforming to Effects-Based Operations: Lessons from the United Kingdom Experience
Authors: Andrew Dorman
Date: January 2008

Title: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War
Authors: Henry Sokolski
Date: January 2008

Title: Jordanian National Security and the Future of Middle East Stability
Authors: Andrew Terrill
Date: January 2008

Title: Development and Reform of the Iraqi Police Forces
Authors: Tony Pfaff
Date: January 2008

Title: A Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty: Gangs and Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) in Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil
Authors: Max Manwaring
Date: December 2007

Title: The Global War on Terrorism: A Religious War?
Authors: Laurence Dobrot
Date: November 2007

Title: Security Cooperation; A Key to the Challenges of the 21st Century
Authors: Gregory Dyekman
Date: November 2007

Title: Russian Security Strategy under Vladimir Putin: Russian and American Perspectives
Authors: Craig Nation
Date: November 2007

Title: Regional Threats and Security Strategy: The Troubling Case of Today's Middle East
Authors: James Russell
Date: November 2007

Title: On the Uses of Cultural Knowledge
Authors: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Date: November 2007

Title: Force and Restraint in Strategic Deterrence: A Game-Theorist's Perspective
Authors: Roger Myerson
Date: November 2007

Title: East Asian Security: Two Views
Authors: Gilbert Rozman
Date: November 2007

Title: AFRICOM's Dilemma: The
Authors: Robert Berschinski
Date: November 2007

Title: Turning on the DIME: Diplomacy's Role in National Security
Authors: Anton Smith
Date: October 2007

Title: Transformation Under Fire: A Historical Case Study with Modern Parallels
Authors: Raymond Kimball
Date: October 2007

Title: The United States and ASEAN-China Relations: All Quiet on the Southeast Asian Front
Authors: Ian Storey
Date: October 2007

Title: The Military Strategy of Global Jihad
Authors: Sarah Zabel
Date: October 2007

Title: The Eastern Dimension of America's New European Allies
Authors: Janusz Bugajski
Date: October 2007

Title: Strategy, National Interests, and Means to an End
Authors: Stephen Sklenka
Date: October 2007

Title: Overcoming the Obstacles to Establishing a Democratic State in Afghanistan
Authors: Dennis Young
Date: October 2007

Title: Opium and Afghanistan: Reassessing U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy
Authors: John Glaze
Date: October 2007

Title: "Making Riflemen from Mud": Restoring the Army's Culture of Irregular Warfare
Authors: James Campbell
Date: October 2007

Title: Turkmenistan and Central Asia after Niyazov
Authors: Stephen Blank
Date: September 2007

Title: The Reserve Policies of Nations: A Comparative Analysis
Authors: Richard Weitz
Date: September 2007

Title: The Emerging Pattern of Geopolitics
Authors: Peter Rodman
Date: September 2007

Title: Shaping Commitment: Resolving Canada's Strategy Gap in Afghanistan and Beyond
Authors: Craig Hilton
Date: September 2007

Title: Right Sizing the People's Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military
Authors: Roy Kamphausen
Date: September 2007

Title: Negotiation in the New Strategic Environment: Lessons from Iraq
Authors: David Tressler
Date: September 2007

Title: Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict and Hugo Chavez
Authors: Max Manwaring
Date: September 2007

Title: Kuwaiti National Security and the U.S.-Kuwaiti Strategic Relationship after Saddam
Authors: Andrew Terrill
Date: September 2007

Title: Egypt: Security, Political, and Islamist Challenges
Authors: Sherifa Zuhur
Date: September 2007

Title: China's Expansion into and U.S. Withdrawal from Argentina's Telecommunications and Space Industries and the Implications for U.S. National Security
Authors: Janie Hulse
Date: September 2007

Title: ASEAN and Its Security Offspring: Facing New Challenges
Authors: Sheldon Simon
Date: September 2007

Title: An Introduction to Theater Strategy and Regional Security
Authors: Clarence Bouchat
Date: September 2007

Title: American Grand Strategy for Latin America in the Age of Resentment
Authors: Gabriel Marcella
Date: September 2007

Title: Security Requirements for Post-Transition Cuba
Authors: Alexander Crowther
Date: August 2007

Title: The Implications of Preemptive and Preventive War Doctrines: A Reconsideration
Authors: Colin Gray
Date: July 2007

Title: Political Trends in the New Eastern Europe: Ukraine and Belarus
Authors: Vitali Silitski
Date: July 2007

Title: Ukraine's Military Between East and West
Authors: Marybeth Ulrich
Date: May 2007

Title: Rethinking Insurgency
Authors: Steven Metz
Date: May 2007