Does deterrence actually work? In our international relations class, my students researched the track record of deterrence in several cases of international aggression, as well as examples where ...

Anytime a Secretary of Defense returns from Hawaii, one braces for tough talk and the “coming war with China.” Thankfully, Lloyd Austin took a different approach. Last week he gave a speech ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Successive official documents in the UK, including its most recent (2015) National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), have stated that the purpose of the UK nuclear ...

U.S. security guarantees are extraordinary and complex commitments. The United States puts at risk its deployed forces and personnel, and potentially its homeland, for the sake of shared interests ...