This article explores the transnational professional experiences of Chiefs of Defence (CHODs) and their connection to states’ positions in the international system. Although the military is a symbo...

While it is typically the smaller state in alliance politics that is expected to entangle the larger power in an unwanted conflict, there are circumstances in which the opposite is true. That a lar...

Commercial threat reporting plays a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions of cyber conflict, providing insights into threats and behavior of key actors. This article examines the evolving prac...

The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...

The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...

This article revives and develops a dormant scholarly view of international mediation as “mediation-bargaining”. This perspective differs from the standard conception of mediation, the essence of w...

This article explains why and how Malaysia pursues defense cooperation and joint military exercises (JME) partnerships with the United States and China. To do so, it categorizes three types of JME ...

States often seek to undermine their competitors in order to obtain a favorable balance of power. Yet, the literature on how they actually do that remains sparse and disconnected. We focus on how a...

States often seek to undermine their competitors in order to obtain a favorable balance of power. Yet, the literature on how they actually do that remains sparse and disconnected. We focus on how a...

Under what conditions do the more powerful states in an adversarial conventional arms control (CAC) agreement accept a reduction in their relative military power? Scholars have rarely empirically a...

Children of their Time: The Impact of World Politics on United Nations Peace Missions. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Contemporary Security Policy

This article examines how audience costs affect secondary powers’ foreign policy alignment with their patron state amid great power competition. Through a novel survey experiment centered on South ...

Cooptation in Great Power Rivalries. Volume 46, Issue 1 of Contemporary Security Policy

This article investigates two research questions: firstly, whether small state hedging can be compatible with alliances, and secondly, what Thailand’s troubled alliance with the United States porte...

As captured by Authoritarian Conflict Management (ACM), Russian reliance upon Wagner Group in Africa runs counter to several Chinese efforts: economic and trade projects, development and conflict p...

ABSTRACT As debates on gender integration growin the military and Women, Peace, and Security scholarship, security studies scholars and policy experts are scrutinizing the link between gender and operational effectiveness. This article argues that deployed experiences create opportunities for soldiers to observe women’s engagement with host communities, particularly local women - contributing to soldiers' improved attitudes toward gender integration. Employing interviews and an online survey with a total of 43 US active duty and veterans who served in ISAF in Afghanistan, we find that most who hadserved in mixed-gender units commended female soldiers’ interactions with local populations and linked these observations with improved assessments of the operating environment.

This article comparatively analyzes public perceptions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Despite being invisible for most of its existenc...

Securing cyberspace is a public concern, but often a private task. “Unwarranted influence” of business power might thus challenge advanced democracies. Given the widespread lack of available data i...

Amidst the growing potential for AI integration into nuclear command, control, and communication (NC3) systems, the imperative of preserving human oversight in these critical systems has increased....

Peace operations are the main instrument of the United Nations (UN) to maintain international peace and security. This special issue analyzes how recent changes in world politics, in terms of incre...

This article proposes a new way to understand cyberspace's impact on international relations by treating it as a “structural modifier.” This shared language with IR allows for a clearer picture of ...

Capacity building (CB) assistance for digital development has climbed the foreign policy agendas of powerful states, yet its strategic significance remains opaque. Particularly, while CB is believe...

Publishes theoretical research on policy challenges on armed conflict, conflict resolution, defense strategy, peacekeeping and international security.