Michael J Mazarr

Improving International Crisis Communications

Light Forces & the Future of U.S. Military Strategy

Missile Defenses and Asian-Pacific Security

Start and the Future of Deterrence

Toward a Nuclear Peace: The Future of Nuclear Weapons

North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation

Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World: The Challenge of Virtual Nuclear Arsenals

North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation

American National Security

This fifth edition of American National Security is a timely update of a classic classroom text, providing contemporary perspectives on limited war, economic challenges to national security, and research and development. It reviews the changing security environment in key regions of the world: Russi...

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

Five years into the war on terror, we still don't understand the supposed "enemy." Official analyses of radical Islam remain simplistic and unhelpful for understanding the motivations and mindsets of people still characterized simply as "evildoers who hate freedom." This book offers a new way of und...

Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized

The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite mi...

North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation

This book offers the first in-depth history of the greatest diplomatic challenge in the post-Cold War era-the North Korean nuclear program and the US and allied efforts to stop it. Michael J. Mazarr explains why North Korea may believe it needs nuclear weapons and how the US has tried to thwart its ...

Mastering the Gray Zone: Understanding a Changing Era of Conflict

This manuscript examines the increasingly important form of rivalry and statecraft that has become known as "gray zone strategies." In regions from Eastern Europe to the South China Sea, such tactics in the hands of ambitious regional powers pose a growing challenge to U.S. and allied interests. Thi...

Hide in Plain Sight: The Strategic Challenge of 'Gray Swans' (World Politics Review Features)

Conventional wisdom holds that the biggest threats to strategy come from sudden and unexpected events, or “black swans.” But too little attention has been paid to a more common problem: “gray swans,” risks that are anticipated but that remain fundamentally improbable, and for that reason are disrega...

Counterinsurgency in the Post-COIN Era (World Politics Review Features)

The Obama administration's recently released Defense Strategic Guidance has officially brought the COIN era to a close. But debates over counterinsurgency's accomplishments in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as its role in America's future national security posture show no sign of letting up. Steven Me...

Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World

Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World sets out to examine one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century: the future of nuclear weapons. Acknowledging the growing consensus that pushing nuclear weapons to the margins of world politics would represent the wisest political and moral choi...