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An extract from the paper I presented at the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Kingston, CA. The National Security Strategy (NSS) of 2010 describes a strategic approach that seeks to leverage the attributes of sturdy alliances, a strong economy (interdependence) and a professional military, a strong and evolving democracy, and a dynamic citizenry (stability) in […]
October 30, 2012
I am looking forward to presenting “The Case for a Grand Strategy of Network Centrality” at the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Kingston, CA this weekend. The paper asks how should the United States employ its defense, development, and diplomatic tools to look beyond war to the subsequent peace? Anne-Marie Slaughter offered […]
July 13, 2012
My guest post is up at The Kabul Cable : An Interdependent Approach to Stability “The model used in this study clearly suggests a strong relationship of interdependency to stability. As a nation becomes more interdependent, it becomes more domestically stable. As a nation becomes more interdependent with the result of being more stable it is able […]
March 28, 2012
By G. John Ikenberry In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the last […]
March 15, 2012
While written in 2008 (and not at all directed at me), I thought this piece by Paul Krugman offered a slightly contrarian view of my recent writing on the intersection of interdependence and stability. Where Krugman offers that it is an illusion to believe economic interdependence will ride the world of conflict, I believe he is taking an incomplete view […]
February 13, 2012
This post is a reblog of a wordpress page that I recently began following here at Rrugezbulues: The Offshore Balancer. Despite being written for a British audience, I believe it is fairly applicable to the ongoing debate within the American military to reorient our regional forces to be global focused. The Tyranny of Distance We live in a […]
January 18, 2012
Continuing our study of the intersection of interdependence and stability, we applied Model 2 (Swiss Economic Institute Index of Globalization/Worldwide Governance Indicators) to the U.S. European Command’s area of responsibility (see chart). There are six countries that reside in the “Unintegrated-Unstable” quadrant (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kosovo, and Uzbekistan). Eight countries reside in the “Interdependent-Unstable” quadrant (Bosnia […]
January 2, 2012
Continuing our study of interdependence and stability is the ongoing integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union (EU). At the signing of a free travel agreement between Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro, the Montenegrin Foreign Minister proclaimed, “we share a history, the present, but also a common future towards the EU.” The shared commitment […]
November 4, 2011
Day 2 of the mind meld between my colleague at Thinking Like A Cheetah (ivy leaguer) and I (state schooler). Again we are trying to creating a model of the strategic environment to help forecast capability requirements. The chart here represents the data being applied to the theory. Using the evaluations of stability and interdependence cooperation a quadrant […]
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December 24, 2012
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