Strategist article of TNSR Volume 8, Issue 3: “Artificial Intelligence and
Nuclear Weapons: A
Commonsense Approach
to Understanding Costs
and Benefits” by Herbert Lin
This article offers a novel explanation for the variation in China’s policy toward North Korea’s nuclear program. It argues that Beijing’s willingness to constrain Pyongyang is shaped by the perceived level of US assurance regarding Taiwan. Specifically,…
The articles in this issue highlight enduring questions around how states use military force to achieve (or fail to achieve) their strategic and political objectives.
Lawrence Rubin, Lincoln Hines, and Dayana Alagirova examine China's space diplomacy across the Middle East and North Africa by analyzing how regional states—specifically Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran—utilize space partnerships with Beijing to…