Deterring the Risks of Simultaneous Conflicts and Limited Nuclear Attacks in East Asia

Deterring the Risks of Simultaneous Conflicts and Limited Nuclear Attacks in East Asia

Speaker: Mr. Markus Garlauskas (Indo-Pacific Security Initiative of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council) Date: 26 October 2023 Speaker Session Summary Forthcoming! Speaker Session Recording Also forthcoming! Briefing Materials Report: The...
Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

Speaker: Ms. Bethany Allen (Axios) Date: 18 October 2023 Speaker Session Summary Forthcoming! Speaker Session Recording Briefing Materials Biography: Bethany Allen is the China reporter for Axios and the author of Beijing Rules, named by the Financial Times as one of...
China’s Three Roads to Controlling Taiwan

China’s Three Roads to Controlling Taiwan

Speakers: Dr. Dan Blumenthal (AEI) & Frederick W. Kagan (AEI) Date: 27 September 2023 Speaker Session Summary The increasing political and military tensions between China and Taiwan are frequently discussed in Western media. During these discussions, politicians...
Strategic Culture – Its history, issues, and complexity

Strategic Culture – Its history, issues, and complexity

Authors: Dr. Lawrence A. Kuznar (NSI, Inc.); Nathan Heath (NSI, Inc.); George Popp (NSI, Inc.) Publication Preview The concept of strategic culture emerges in discussions of both tailored and integrated deterrence. Thisreport examines the concept’s history, current...
Concepts of Influence Beyond Punishment and Denial: A Combined Effect Analysis of China, Russia, and Iran

Concepts of Influence Beyond Punishment and Denial: A Combined Effect Analysis of China, Russia, and Iran

Speaker: Brig Gen (Ret) Thomas Drohan (Professor Emeritus of Military and Strategic Studies, U.S. Air Force Academy; Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies) Date: 29 August 2023 Speaker Series Summary Authoritarian states more frequently use a whole-of-society...
Back to the Future: Trajectories, Simulations and Alternative Futures of Great Power Competition

Back to the Future: Trajectories, Simulations and Alternative Futures of Great Power Competition

Speaker: Dr. Mark Abdollahian (Claremont Graduate University; Acertas) Date: 12 July 2023 Speaker Session Summary The US and China have been locked in a great power competition (GPC) that will decide who has more political influence among both developing and developed...