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Contemporary Security Policy

At the nexus of proof and policy, we have published research on armed violence, intervention, and conflict resolution since 1980.

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Recent Posts

  • First SSCI Impact Factor

    Contemporary Security Policy is now included in the Social Science Citation Index. Our first impact factor = 1.574, which ranks the journal #33 out of 91 in the category International Relations. Read more →

  • The Afghanistan model for Somali peace negotiations

    The talks with the Taliban held in Doha and Moscow have generated some enthusiasm in Somalia, as many Somalis demand similar talks with Al-Shabaab. This post discusses how the United States should engage. Read more →

  • Why Australia remains a close ally despite Donald Trump

    Mark Beeson and Alan Bloomfield show that it takes more than Donald Trump to upset American-Australian security relations. The alliance with the United States is deeply ingrained and institutionalized in Australian strategic culture. Read more →

  • The Ban Treaty and the Politics of Power

    Nick Ritchie analyses the power politics behind the recent Ban Treaty. He argues that the Ban Treaty challenges the set of core international social institutions of nuclear order. Whether this challenge is sustained remains to be seen. Read more →

  • THAAD and Nuclear Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula

    The deployment of THAAD in South Korea has resulted in considerable controversy. Inwook Kim and Soul Park however argue that THAAD is vulnerable to countermeasures. They suggest that the threat of retaliation should continue to be a dominant deterrence strategy. Read more →

  • How should we use cyber weapons?

    In a recent article in Read more →

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