Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2024.2309076
Edoardo Campanella, John Haigh
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2024.2309081
James J. Wirtz
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2024.2309074
James Adams, D. Gompert, Thomas Knudson
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2024.2309086
John Raine
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Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2024.2309077
Kendrick Kuo
{"title":"How to Think About Risks in US Military Innovation","authors":"Kendrick Kuo","doi":"10.1080/00396338.2024.2309077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2024.2309077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51535,"journal":{"name":"Survival","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140515350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2023.2285603
Emile Hokayem
Abstract Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack and the subsequent war in Gaza has forced the Palestinian question back to the top of the Middle Eastern agenda after years of neglect. The crisis has also confirmed Hamas’s identity as an agent of resistance rather than governance and shattered Israel’s perceptions of its own power, the competence of its security services and political leadership, and the manageability of its immediate neighbourhood. Israeli forces may well destroy Hamas’s advanced military capabilities and decapitate its Gaza-based command, but they are unlikely to obliterate Hamas as a social, political and ideological actor, and a determined insurgency. In Arab forums, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict will probably inhibit normalisation with Israel and overshadow other conflicts. Iran does not have an immediate interest in expanding the war and has other options through partners for signalling support for Hamas. The war broadly benefits Tehran by affirming its forward-defence strategy, re-energising its axis of resistance and shaking its regional rivals.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2023.2285605
Charlie Laderman
Abstract There are parallels between the run-up to the United States’ entry into the Second World War in 1941 and the contemporary geopolitical environment. Authoritarian aggression has again produced war in Europe and threatens conflict in Asia. While new research on the path to war in December 1941 offers no neatly packaged lessons, it does present five enduring dilemmas. Firstly, it only takes one side to believe war is inevitable for it to materialise. Secondly, a combatant might regard a state’s characterisation of economic-defence aid to an adversary combatant as a measure short of war as a distinction without a difference. Thirdly, underlying but unrealised military primacy might encourage rather than deter war by making time a critical factor. Fourthly, domestic constraints can make it difficult for a government to make deterrence credible. Fifthly, and relatedly, a democratic leader cannot make durable policies that get too far ahead of public opinion.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2023.2285611
David W. Ellwood
Abstract In Soft Power and the Future of US Foreign Policy, Hendrik W. Ohnesorge has collected interesting and worthwhile essays demonstrating that values, policies and personalities – as well as artists and performers, philanthropic foundations, universities, corporations and churches – are elements of American soft power. These cultural resources add to a nation’s global reputation and influence. Factors afflicting America’s reputation today include the declining quality of life for many sectors of American society, the country’s inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic, recent foreign-policy disasters, and the coercive use of soft power itself. None of the contributors scrutinise the gap between promise and performance in US public diplomacy, but it seems clear that hard power undergirds soft power, and that the ability to call upon a uniquely abundant variety of means to project power is still what distinguishes the United States from all its competitors.
摘要 在《软实力与美国外交政策的未来》一书中,亨德里克-W.-奥内索格(Hendrik W. Ohnesorge)收集了一些有趣而有价值的文章,证明价值观、政策和人物--以及艺术家和表演者、慈善基金会、大学、公司和教会--都是美国软实力的要素。这些文化资源提升了一个国家的全球声誉和影响力。当今影响美国声誉的因素包括美国社会许多阶层生活质量的下降、美国对COVID-19大流行病的应对不力、最近的外交政策灾难以及软实力本身的强制性使用。没有一位撰稿人仔细研究了美国公共外交中承诺与表现之间的差距,但似乎很明显,硬实力是软实力的基础,而利用独特的丰富手段来投射力量的能力仍然是美国区别于所有竞争对手的关键所在。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2023.2285610
Lynn Kuok
Abstract China is engaging in a broad and systematic effort to align its legal capabilities with its strategic goals in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and could do so outside of Asia, in places as far afield as the Arctic and Antarctic, in order to reshape and, in some cases, fill gaps in international law. Yet, while China’s assertive ‘wolf-warrior diplomacy’ has received considerable attention, its legal diplomacy has largely gone under the radar. Despite their insistence on the importance of the rules-based international order, the United States and other Western powers have been less proactive and methodical in their use of international law as compared to China. In an age of great-power competition, countries are drawing on a diverse range of tools – military, diplomatic, economic, developmental and intelligence – to gain strategic advantage. Countries that fail to bolster their own legal capabilities and to integrate legal diplomacy into their national-security strategies may surrender the power of legitimacy to China, even if, particularly in the South China Sea, Chinese actions have indubitably contravened international law.
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