Publications by Type:
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Strategic Asia 2009-10: Economic Meltdown and Geopolitical Stability
This volume analyzes the impact of the current global economic crisis on key Asian states and explores the strategic implications for the United States.
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Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World
This volume examines the Arab world’s major political actors, assesses the weaknesses of secular parties, and evaluates how incumbent regimes have maintained their grip on power in spite of reform-oriented claims.
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The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition
Chinese leaders view the international community as fundamentally defined by antagonism; an outlook that is unlikely to change until and unless the regime changes.
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Russian Civil-Military Relations: Putin's Legacy
Russian Civil-Military Relations provides crucial analysis of the nature and evolution of the balance between civilian and military institutions. These relations will continue to influence regime development, security policy, and societal attitudes that build from Putin’s Russia, to Medvedev’s administration, and into the future.
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The Return of History and the End of Dreams
The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict. Communism is dead, but a new contest between western liberalism and the great eastern autocracies of Russia and China has reinjected ideology into geopolitics.
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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
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Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century
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Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy
Edited by Ashley Tellis, with contributions by leading Asia specialists including Frederic Grare of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this book, the seventh in NBR's strategic Asia series, examines the varied political transitions and internal changes occurring in pivotal Asian states and evaluates the impact on Asian foriegn policymaking and strategy.
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Russia—Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
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Getting Russia Right
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Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan's Security
Bringing together experts from the U.S. and Taiwan, Assessing the Threat provides a comprehensive look at the dangers of military escalation in the Taiwan Strait, the latest advances in capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army, and China’s security relationship with the United States and the Asia-Pacific.
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Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China’s rise, a crucial aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China is using soft power to appeal to its neighbors and to distant countries alike.
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Savage Century: Back to Barbarism
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Managing Sino-American Crises: Case Studies and Analysis
Sensitivities and suspicions between Washington and Beijing have heightened as China’s global power and influence have grown. Arguably, this new international order could increase the chances of a political-military crisis—or perhaps outright conflict—between the two powers.
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Strategic Asia 2006–07: Trade, Interdependence, and Security
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Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies
Political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world—frequently beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoralism. Thomas Carothers draws on extensive field research to diagnose deficiencies in party aid, assess its overall impact, and offer practical ideas for doing better.
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Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
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Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
The central problem with Iran is not its nuclear technology but rather Iran’s behavior as a revolutionary state with ambitions that collide with the interests of its neighbors and the West.
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Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Transforming the U.S.-Russian Equation
While deterrence as a concept has always been paradoxical, it is poorly equipped to handle today’s most significant nuclear challenges: proliferation and terrorism. Nuclear arms control must move beyond the deadlock of deterrence.
