When does nuclear counterproliferation succeed? When does it lead to preventive war? We argue that as the ratio between (i) the effect of nuclear acquisition on the balance of power and (ii) the costs of preventive war increases, counterproliferation becomes more successful but mistaken preventive wars also become more likely. We apply this logic to comparing the dynamics of proliferation durin...

As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job. Over the past few years while conducting research during Arctic operations (Figure 1) we have experienced the challenges of trying to conduct basics tasks outside in the extreme cold. As civilian scientis...

CONTEXT The rising number of deaths among United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces after the Cold War has made some troop-contributing countries hesitant to participate in peacekeeping operations. While the number and scale of missions have increased, no data have demonstrated a parallel increase in risks to peacekeepers. OBJECTIVE To determine the association of characteristics of UN peacekee...

Geopolitical regionalisms are a mechanism of managing influence in particular region at point time. They exist and driven by powers vying for the expense others, turn, influenced nature geopolitical era which they exist. The Cold War saw bipolar world, where were achieved two superpowers, often through their proxies. This was replaced monopolar world order after collapse Soviet Union 1991. curr...

The following essay is based on a Keynote Address to the OECD ‘‘High Level Meeting of the Committee for Scientific and Technology Policy,’’ Oslo, March 4, 2008, on the topic ‘‘Adjusting Policy to New Dimensions in Science, Technology and Innovation.’’ The objective of the talk was to point out the difficulty of linking specific policies to specific measures of successful innovation, while never...

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has unleashed the largest and most lethal war on European continent since 1945. Vladimir Putin Russian government bear responsibility for its terrible humanitarian consequences. However, explanations deriving from domestic political dynamics or Putin’s imperial nostalgia do not provide a comprehensive understanding crisis that led to war. Situating ensuing w...

The first in this series Of three articles, published in the September-October 1997 issue of ARMOR. addressed American lank developmenJ during the HbrJd \\brs. This article focuses upon lhe Cold "'b, era prior to the development of the M I Abrams, illustrating the injlutnu oj the Soviet military threat. The desire to field a technologically superior lank that would more than offset Soviet numer...

the caucasus has seen numerous crises since the region gained independence following the collapse of the soviet :union:. some of these crises have not been resolved yet as evidenced by recent russia-georgia conflict. this paper seeks to analyze such crises within the framework of significant geopolitical changes unfolded by the collapse of the soviet :union:. the author argues that in the post-...