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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"rogue states"”.
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Clausewitz and Counterproliferation: Defeating, Deterring and Disarming Rogues Possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction
… proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states, which try to overthrow the status quo and threaten U.S. vital interests. Counterproliferation, understood herein as the non-cooperative reduction with military means of the threat from weapons of mass destruction, will therefore become …
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Strategic deferment: A study of the rogue state, status quo state relationship with a focus on the United States and North Korea
… literature has, as a whole, overlooked rogue states, and especially North Korea. In the first half of this paper, I present a game-theoretic model that demonstrates the differences between how a rogue state acts with and without nuclear weapons. The second half of this paper is a case …
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The Necessity of Active Measures in Counterproliferation
… (WMD) is a grave concern to the United States. In the post-911 world, transnational threats such as terrorism and WMD proliferation are the most pressing issues facing the United States. Both terrorist organizations and rogue states can use WMD as multipliers to their forces to do …
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The Imperium Americana Paradigm: Reshaping the International System
The United States is currently the world’s primary power. In the post-Cold War era it failed to make use of this power to enhance its preponderant international position, instead investing it in two Cold war institutions, the United Nations and NATO, to maintain the status quo. Emerging threats …
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Shifting U.S. Cyber Strategy from Defense to Offense
The United States is heavily reliant on information technology and cyberspace to function at the societal, economic, and military levels. As a consequence, the U.S. faces substantial threats from hostile foreign state and non-state actors conducting computer network exploitations of military and …
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COLLABORATING TO RUIN? US NATIONAL LABORATORIES AND THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
… nuclear scientists emigrated to perceived rogue states like Iran and North Korea in the years that immediately followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Early on, the research benefits of these ties appeared to be significant. Today, as the Russian science and technology cadre is going …
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American Foreign Policy and Islamic Aggression
… cause of Islamic aggression against the United States, and if so, offer policy recommendations on what should be done to reduce this aggression. To make this determination I have performed extensive research and analysis of a wide variety of literature and open source material pertaining to …
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Japan's Missile Defense
… defense system in cooperation with the United States. The Japanese government claims that the missile defense (JMD) program is purely defensive and will not pose a threat to other countries. JMD may seem justified by North Korea's development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. However, …
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The Myth of Paradise: A Reappraisal of Commonwealth Caribbean States' Sovereignty and Development Sustainability within the Transnational Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Legal Order
… stigmatised as a mythical island paradise of ‘rogue’ States. Not infrequently, their exercise of regulatory self-determination has been reduced to the selling of their economic sovereignty to facilitate shady business deals and financial crimes. Resultantly, these small jurisdictions have been …
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Hegemony and nuclear proliferation
… of nuclear tipping points, the number of states interested in nuclear weapons has sharply declined in recent decades. In contrast to existing explanations, this dissertation argues that the decline is largely attributable to US nonproliferation policies, in particular the threat of …
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Fundamental Studies of the Uptake and Diffusion of Sulfur Mustard Simulants within Zirconium-based Metal-Organic Frameworks
… century due to the actions of terror groups and rogue states. Traditional filtration strategies for soldier protection rely on high surface area activated carbon, but these materials merely trap CWAs through weak physisorption. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as promising materials …
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Improving U.S. Nuclear Capability
<p>The United States must be prepared for the myriad of nuclear threats it will face in the twenty-first century. American preeminence and security will be challenged in the coming decades. Countries of concern to U.S. security are developing, or have developed, a weaponized capability; the rise of …