Contemporary Security Policy journal
@cspjournal.bsky.social
CSP publishes theoretically-based research on policy problems of international security. It encourages novel contributions, not particular methodologies or policy goals. Our aspiration: 🌎🌍🌏 Editors: Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Nicole Jenne, Yf Reykers
📈 Ranked 17 / 738 of Politics and IR journals in the latest Scopus ranking. A big thank you to all authors, reviewers and editorial board members for making this possible. 👏 Onwards and upwards.
Hylke Dijkstra@hdijkstra.bsky.social · last yr.Very pleased that @cspjournal.bsky.social under the editorship of @myducave.bsky.social @nicjenne.bsky.social and @yfreykers.bsky.social continues to do great 👏 17/738 of Politics and IR journals in latest Scopus ranking ▶️ www.scopus.com/sourceid/560...
🚨 New article How much do Chiefs of Defence engage in transnational practices? And how much are these interactions shaped by the state's power status? In this article, Tomas Kucera analyses a novel global dataset to answer these questions. doi.org/10.1080/1352...
The anatomy of transnational military practices: Through the lens of Chiefs of Defence professional careers
This article explores the transnational professional experiences of Chiefs of Defence (CHODs) and their connection to states’ positions in the international system. Although the military is a symbo...
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🚨 New article Through a study of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, Jacqui Cho shows how conflict parties instrumentalize the opportunities created by the renewed global power struggle in Africa, undermining the appeal and viability of negotiations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 New article Can large states also harm the security of their smaller allies? In this article, Chin-Hao Huang shows that the US’ actions in the Taiwan Strait are leading to less efficacious outcomes, contributing to Taiwan’s insecurity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Large-state liability in alliance politics: Revisiting the quasi-US–Taiwan alliance in the Taiwan Strait
While it is typically the smaller state in alliance politics that is expected to entangle the larger power in an unwanted conflict, there are circumstances in which the opposite is true. That a lar...
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🚨 New article Commercial threat reporting shapes public perceptions of cyber conflict. In this study, Lior Yoffe, Eviatar Matiana & Udi Sommer show that Western cybersecurity companies' reporting is increasingly influenced by geopolitical considerations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The rise of responsible behavior: Western commercial reports on Western cyber threat actors
Commercial threat reporting plays a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions of cyber conflict, providing insights into threats and behavior of key actors. This article examines the evolving prac...
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🚨 New article In it, @fredwindfeld.bsky.social shows that the contention over defining Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is not reducible to country positions alone; it also has its roots in epistemic contests over what constitutes superior knowledge. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems
The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...
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Just published in @cspjournal.bsky.social 💡💻⚖️ My article looks at how legal, technical, and military expertise condition the debate over defining and regulating lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)—and how such “epistemic struggles" can produce political effects in global governance.
Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems
The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...
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🚨New article online In this article, Laurie Nathan studies mediations undertaken by African multilateral organizations in response to 22 coups between 2000-2022 to show how/when mediators engage in bargaining with conflict parties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What do international mediators do? Reviving and refining the mediation-bargaining model
This article revives and develops a dormant scholarly view of international mediation as “mediation-bargaining”. This perspective differs from the standard conception of mediation, the essence of w...
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🚨New article online As part of a forthcoming special section on joint military exercises and regional order building in Asia, Chow-Bing Ngeow and Chiew-Ping Hoo show why Malaysia pursues defense cooperation and military exercises with the US ánd China. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Malaysia’s defense cooperation and joint military exercises with the United States and China: quasi allies, trustable partners, potential adversaries
This article explains why and how Malaysia pursues defense cooperation and joint military exercises (JME) partnerships with the United States and China. To do so, it categorizes three types of JME ...
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Open Access Article in @cspjournal.bsky.social by @luissimonn.bsky.social and me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... THREAD. Many people who see this post (well, not so many) are probably familiar with wedge strategies, “a state’s attempt to prevent, break up, or weaken a threatening or blocking
Levels of division: How wedge strategies shape international and domestic politics
States often seek to undermine their competitors in order to obtain a favorable balance of power. Yet, the literature on how they actually do that remains sparse and disconnected. We focus on how a...
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🚨New article online How do states seek to weaken a competitor externally or internally for negative balancing purposes? @tongfi-kim.bsky.social & @luissimonn.bsky.social provide a novel framework for analysing wedge strategies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @csds.bsky.social
Levels of division: How wedge strategies shape international and domestic politics
States often seek to undermine their competitors in order to obtain a favorable balance of power. Yet, the literature on how they actually do that remains sparse and disconnected. We focus on how a...
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❗New Research❗ We are delighted to share this new article on "Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe" by William Lippert and Jordan Becker for Contemporary Security Policy. Give it a read! Read🔸 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jordanbecker.bsky.social @cspjournal.bsky.social
Privileged to have been part of this Special Issue connecting peace operations & peacebuilding with the shifts in the global order. Many thanks to @sarahellmuller.bsky.social and @fannybadache.bsky.social for their guidance along the way and @cspjournal.bsky.social for their editorial support.
Contemporary Security Policy journal@cspjournal.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Our second issue of the year is out! Vol 46(2) features the Special Issue "Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations". Special Issue editors: @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/4... A 🧵
Many thanks to @cspjournal.bsky.social for a smooth process. Happy to have written this with my @unileiden.bsky.social teammate William Lippert. It was a new substantive and methodological journey for me!
Contemporary Security Policy journal@cspjournal.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New article "Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe" W. Lippert & @jordanbecker.bsky.social ask: when do rival states in Europe decide to sacrifice some of their relative military capability when entering conventional arms control agreements? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨New article "Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe" W. Lippert & @jordanbecker.bsky.social ask: when do rival states in Europe decide to sacrifice some of their relative military capability when entering conventional arms control agreements? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe
Under what conditions do the more powerful states in an adversarial conventional arms control (CAC) agreement accept a reduction in their relative military power? Scholars have rarely empirically a...
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Very happy to see this timely(!) special issue out! Big thank you to the journal's editors and all the contributors. It is part of the project "A Child of its Time: the Impact of World Politics on UN Peace Missions" funded by @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social and hosted @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social
Contemporary Security Policy journal@cspjournal.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Our second issue of the year is out! Vol 46(2) features the Special Issue "Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations". Special Issue editors: @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/4... A 🧵
📢 Our second issue of the year is out! Vol 46(2) features the Special Issue "Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations". Special Issue editors: @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/4... A 🧵
Contemporary Security Policy
Children of their Time: The Impact of World Politics on United Nations Peace Missions. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Contemporary Security Policy
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🚨New article online "In today’s Sino-US strategic competition, US allies face significant costs for alignment with Washington" Do citizens of secondary powers penalize their leadership for retracting alignment commitments? Insights from South Korea: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
US allies’ foreign policy alignment in an era of great power competition: An analysis of domestic politics
This article examines how audience costs affect secondary powers’ foreign policy alignment with their patron state amid great power competition. Through a novel survey experiment centered on South ...
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Special Issue on "Cooptation in Great Power Rivalries", eds. Gadi Heimann, Deganit Paikowsky, Andreas Kruck & Bernhard Zangl, now out @cspjournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/c...
Contemporary Security Policy
Cooptation in Great Power Rivalries. Volume 46, Issue 1 of Contemporary Security Policy
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🚨New article online Military exercises have an important role as sources of political-military messaging, argues Gregory Raymond. What does the decline in the scale of military exercise Cobra Gold in the past 15 years tell us about the Thailand-US alliance? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cobra Gold over four decades: hedging, alliances and a United States–Thailand multilateral military exercise
This article investigates two research questions: firstly, whether small state hedging can be compatible with alliances, and secondly, what Thailand’s troubled alliance with the United States porte...
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🚨New article online In this study, Christopher Spearin shows how Russia's use of Authoritarian Conflict Management (ACM) techniques in Africa through Wagner Group has also disrupted several Chinese efforts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Russia’s Wagner Group and the sustainment of authoritarianism in Africa: Implications for China at home and abroad
As captured by Authoritarian Conflict Management (ACM), Russian reliance upon Wagner Group in Africa runs counter to several Chinese efforts: economic and trade projects, development and conflict p...
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Research Spotlight:📙Heidi Hardt and Stefanie von Hlatky examine local engagement and attitudes toward women in the U.S. military in “Local Engagement and U.S. Military Attitudes toward Gender Integration: Evidence from Afghanistan” from @cspjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Local engagement and U.S. military attitudes toward gender integration: Evidence from Afghanistan
ABSTRACT As debates on gender integration growin the military and Women, Peace, and Security scholarship, security studies scholars and policy experts are scrutinizing the link between gender and operational effectiveness. This article argues that deployed experiences create opportunities for soldiers to observe women’s engagement with host communities, particularly local women - contributing to soldiers' improved attitudes toward gender integration. Employing interviews and an online survey with a total of 43 US active duty and veterans who served in ISAF in Afghanistan, we find that most who hadserved in mixed-gender units commended female soldiers’ interactions with local populations and linked these observations with improved assessments of the operating environment.
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🔔 Publication Alert! Interested in cybersecurity? Check out the latest article co-authored by #EISS Interim Secretary General Moritz Weiss & Nicolas Krieger in @cspjournal.bsky.social ! 🔗 Read the article now! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨New article online In this article, Z. Arynov and T. Umirbekov study public perceptions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). They focus on Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, where the CSTO has recently received growing public attention. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Contesting the unknown? Public perceptions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
This article comparatively analyzes public perceptions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Despite being invisible for most of its existenc...
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🚨New article online "Securing cyberspace is a public concern, but often a private task." M. Weiss and N. Krieger analyse 290 business exchanges between USCYBERCOM and private suppliers to better understand public-private coordination in cybersecurity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The political economy of cybersecurity: Governments, firms and opportunity structures for business power
Securing cyberspace is a public concern, but often a private task. “Unwarranted influence” of business power might thus challenge advanced democracies. Given the widespread lack of available data i...
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🚨New article online "AI holds immense promise and poses significant challenges for international security and stability." In this article, @haleemasaadia.bsky.social and her co-authors explore how to keep human oversight of AI in nuclear command and control. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
AI and nuclear decisions: Toward an arms control framework
Amidst the growing potential for AI integration into nuclear command, control, and communication (NC3) systems, the imperative of preserving human oversight in these critical systems has increased....
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🚨New article In this intro to their forthcoming special issue @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social discuss how tectonic shifts in world politics affect UN peace missions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⏰ Stay tuned: we'll release the entire special issue soon!
Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations
Peace operations are the main instrument of the United Nations (UN) to maintain international peace and security. This special issue analyzes how recent changes in world politics, in terms of incre...
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📋CSP blog update 🔸 In a new author post @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & Bilal Salaymeh present the findings of their work on the effects of geopolitical competition on actors involved in peace processes Read the post here: contemporarysecuritypolicy.org
🚨new publication online In this article @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & Bilal Salaymeh argue that geopolitical rivalry encouraged actors to simultaneously engage in war and peacemaking activities. On the implications of this, read 👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2024.2448908
🚨 new publication online In this article, Oliver Richmond critically examines dominant post-Cold War concepts in peacemaking. The contribution is part of a forthcoming special issue on the impact of contemporary world politics on peacekeeping–stay tuned for more! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
