National Institute is pleased to announce its new publication, the Journal of Policy & Strategy—a quarterly, online, and peer-reviewed journal. In addition to the efforts of the contributing and managing editors, this new journal will be supported by a world-class Board of Editorial Advisors with diverse expertise and professional backgrounds, as is befitting a publication focusing on policy and strategy. Our priority goal is to include thoughtful, well-researched articles from a range of views, including the work of both younger and well-established authors.

Regular features of the Journal of Policy & Strategy will include:

  • Timely, original analyses of prominent international security issues;
  • Interviews of important contributors to national security;
  • The presentation of key official government reports, speeches and Congressional testimony;
  • Expert reviews of recent books and published studies focusing on international security;
  • Proceedings from National Institute’s monthly online symposia on critical national security topics; and,
  • A feature entitled “From the Archive” which will regularly present a classic article, study or testimony from the 1960s-1980s that provides an analysis or commentary of enduring great value.

The editors would like to welcome readers to the Journal of Policy & Strategy. All issues will be posted at the National Institute website and so be available to all readers without restrictions or charge. Every issue will be in the public interest and well worth the read.

Volume 2 – 2022

Vol. 2, No. 4 | Full Issue

Editorial Advisory Board

Table Of Contents

Editor’s Note

Analysis

Deterrence in the Emerging Threat Environment: What is Different and Why it Matters
By Keith B. Payne and David J. Trachtenberg

Alliance Politics in a Multipolar World
Michaela Dodge

Vulnerability is No Virtue and Defense is No Vice: The Strategic Benefits of Expanded U.S. Homeland Missile Defense
Matthew R. Costlow

Vol. 2, No. 3 | Full Issue

Editorial Advisory Board

Table Of Contents

Analysis

Russia Influence Operations in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania: Missile Defense, Common Tendencies, and Lessons Learned
By Michaela Dodge

Deterrence is Not Rocket Science: It is More Difficult
By Keith B. Payne

Divergent U.S. and Chinese Views of Information, Deterrence, and Future Warfare
By Dean Cheng

The Sources of Russian Conduct
By Ilan Berman

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: An Evolution in the Global Landscape
By Christopher Harmon

Interviews

Peter Huessy, Hudson Institute and GeoStrategic Analysis
Stephan Frühling, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University
Tanya Hartman, Russia/Ukraine Section, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, NATO HQ

Proceedings

The Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine on the Future of Arms Control & the Nonproliferation Regime, April 2022

Deterrence Implications of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, March 2022

Deterrence Education and National Security, January 2022

Russian Influence Operations and Allied Relations, November 2021

Literature Reviews

Tom Ramos, From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War
Reviewed by David J. Trachtenberg


Hal Brands,The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
Reviewed by Michaela Dodge


David A. Cooper, Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age: Between Disarmament and Armageddon
Reviewed by Matthew R. Costlow

Documentation

Document No. 1. Selections from Commander, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) ADM Charles A. Richard, Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, March 8, 2022

Document No. 2. Selections from United States Northern Command Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, March 1, 2022

Document No. 3. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, “The Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear (SLCM-N): Policy and Strategy,” as printed in, “Strengthening Deterrence and Reducing Nuclear Risks, Part II, The Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear (SLCM-N),” Arms Control and International Security Papers, Vol. 1, No. 11 (July 23, 2020)

From the Archive

Dr. William R. Van Cleave, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Southern California, Testimony before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Armed Services, July 25, 1972

Vol. 2, No. 2 | Full Issue

Editorial Advisory Board

Table Of Contents

Foreword–Ambassador Robert G. Joseph

Preface–Dr. Keith B. Payne

About the Contributors

Executive Summary

Chapter 1–Tailored Deterrence: China and the Taiwan Question

Chapter 2–A Victory Denial Approach to Deterrence

Chapter 3–Victory Denial Deterrence and a “Porcupine Strategy” for Taiwan

Chapter 4–Building Alliance Partnerships in Support of Deterrence

Chapter 5–Potential Economic Tools for a Victory Denial Deterrence Strategy

Chapter 6–The Prospect of Nuclear Proliferation as a Deterrent Factor

Chapter 7–Conclusions

Appendix

Appendix A - A Deterrence Framework

Appendix B - Interviews

Appendix C - Interview Findings

Appendix D - Christopher A. Ford, Defending Taiwan: Defense and Deterrence

Vol. 2, No. 1 | Full Issue

Editorial Advisory Board

Table Of Contents

Editor’s Note

Analysis

Great Powers and World Order: Plus Ça Change...?

The Jus Ad Bellum Character of Nuclear Warfare

The Long Path to the Current State of Sino-American Relations

Missile Defense in Multipolar World

Interviews

Vice Admiral Robert R. Monroe (USN, Ret.)

Lieutenant General Henry A. “Trey” Obering III (USAF, Ret.)

Proceedings

Deterring Potential Chinese Aggression Against Taiwan

Deterrence Implications of the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

US Nuclear Employment Strategy

Literature Reviews

Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

Dmitry Adamsky, Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy

Ilan Berman (ed.) Wars of Ideas: Theology, Interpretation and Power in the Muslim World

Documentation

Document No. 1. Brad Roberts, “China and the 2021 US Nuclear Posture Review,” Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, June 10, 2021.

Document No. 2. General Glen D. VanHerck, United States Air Force, Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, Statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, June 9, 2021.

From the Archive

Deterrence is Not Enough: Security Requirements for the 21st Century,” Speech given by the Rt Hon the Baroness Thatcher LG OM FRS to a Conference of the National Institute for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., Thursday, 3 December 1998