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A Step Backward, or More to Go?

The FY15 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request—the war funding request—helps illustrate how much further the defense budget needs to go to adjust to statutory spending

July 3, 2014
John Cappel
Issue Brief

Myanmar in US-China Relations

On January 22, 2013, following the 5th US-China Asia Pacific Consultations in Beijing, the United States and China jointly announced their intention

June 10, 2014
Yun Sun
Issue Brief

China, the United States, and the Kachin Conflict

This issue brief examines the development of the Kachin conflict in northern Myanmar’s Kachin and Shan states, the negotiations between the Kachin

January 30, 2014
Yun Sun
Issue Brief

Community Perceptions as a Priority in Protection and Peacekeeping

By Alison Giffen – Perceptions influence judgment, decision-making and action. They inform an individual’s decision to flee from or submit to violence,

October 17, 2013
Alison Giffen
Issue Brief, Stimson in the News

Hydropower Dams on the Mekong: Old Dreams, New Dangers

Today, the Mekong River Basin is on the edge of a two-pronged calamity as a result of both the long-term and near-term

September 15, 2013
Richard Cronin
Issue Brief

Arctic Commercial Shipping and the Strategic Significance of the Northern Sea Route

In early August 2013, the general cargo vessel M/V Yong Sheng — a ship operated by the China Ocean Shipping Group Company

August 13, 2013
Rupert Herbert-Burns
Issue Brief

Community Self-Protection Strategies: How Peacekeepers Can Help or Harm

In the face of deliberate violence against civilians, communities often have no one to rely on for protection but themselves. These communities

August 6, 2013
Aditi Gorur
Issue Brief

Stimson Community Self-Protection Issue Brief Aug 2013

August 5, 2013
Aditi Gorur
Issue Brief

A Chemical Weapons–Free Middle East

This was originally published by Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 21, 2013 Click here to read the report.

May 21, 2013
Cindy Vestergaard
Issue Brief, Report

Global Health Security: A Long-Term Prescription

The Challenge We need a coherent global health strategy that looks beyond each crisis to the bigger picture. The 2003 SARS outbreak,

May 15, 2013
Julie E. Fischer
Issue Brief

The future of the CWC in the postdestruction phase

This was originally published by EU-ISS Report Series, March 2013

March 18, 2013
Cindy Vestergaard
Issue Brief

Raghavan on Reducing Nuclear Risks in South Asia

General V.R. Raghavan, the founder of the Delhi Policy Group and the Centre for Security Analysis in Chennai, gave a talk in

October 23, 2012
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