This week, we cover international nuclear "control" issues. As background not included in the syllabus, I encourage you take a few...
just happened upon an interesting piece in The Diplomat likening the Megara Decree , which we discussed last week, to current US-Japane...
Economic skirmishing is a fundamental component of cold wars, if not the defining characteristic. In this regard, the Cold War between th...
As we will discuss in the upcoming class session, the Cold War offered policy makers a decidedly stable conceptual framework within which ...
Economist piece on nuclear detection technologies.
See following Wired magazine story on Pentagon's efforts to spurn commercial-side innovation for military consumption purposes.
We'll be discussing the Iran case/issue later in the semester. In the interim, I found this interesting post by Michael Krepon. Mike is ...
on to dual-use this week. As we discussed last, the new defense innovation cycle can now be described more in terms of spinning-on, rather ...
Syllabus readings for week IV are more factual than suppositional. For class, please familiarize yourselves with the data, linking back arms...
as noted, I am out of the country this week. I am attending a joint US-EU event in UAE for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. se...
Building upon weeks 1 and 2 discussions, we now arrive at power: namely, what is it in relation to economics and trade? Setting aside the ca...
Criminally, I neglected to include Baldwin's work on "unbundling" as it relates to globalization - specifically, trade and pr...
The defense industry is more closely tied to national interest than any other. But Vivek Lall, the head of global strategy for General Ato...
please see links to right for syllabus and Cupitt text. Also, we will be on the 4th floor next week, so bring your oxygen tank.
We begin the term and course reviewing (challenging) a fundamental tenet of the globalization literature: namely, globalization is, well, tr...