Interview – Sreeram Chaulia
Sreeram Chaulia discusses how the field of strategic studies needs to adapt to changing times, as well as approaches to strategic partnerships, particularly India’s.
Why Graduate Education in International Relations Could Benefit From Strategic Studies
Many political science programs with an IR subfield in the US do not have a single faculty member trained as a strategist.
Review – Strategy and Defense Policy for Small States
Bernard Loo’s edited volume offers a new perspective on strategic studies, but ambiguity persists in how to conceptualise a small state.
US and Russia: The Gray Zone Spiral Toward Open War
While many view Russian use of the Gray Zone as a strategic conundrum, such conflicts can logically lead to open warfare.
The Art of Strategy
In a world full of transitions, it is important to add more voices to the chorus of those that observe world events and are concerned with the potential of future conflict.
Review – Clausewitz on Small War
A welcome addition to the growing recent scholarship on Clausewitz which will add depth to theoretical and analytical approaches to war and strategic studies.
Review – Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis
Although there is much of value in this title, its attention to the usual suspects of big to medium powers should instead be focused on North Africa and the Middle East.
Practical and Impractical Knowledge about the Conflict in Ukraine
The crisis in Ukraine suggests that our knowledge of conflicts needs to be informed by the way in which conflict behavior changes the conflict setting.
Review – New Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Pamment offers a meticulous reassessment of public diplomacy, but he falls short in critically interrogating the broader structural issues that have shaped new public diplomacy.
Strategic Theory: What it is…and just as importantly, what it isn’t
Strategic theory offers an exact and coherent basis for investigating social phenomena. It is able to de-conflict the attempt to assess social activity designed to achieve goals from arbitrary moral valuations. It facilitates clarity of understanding, and is thereby, mind opening and intellectually liberating.
