Frozen conflicts, situations in which war ended yet stable peace did not materialize, trouble
both Asia and Europe. Despite the clear policy relevance of this problem, the notion of …

This paper motivates and sketches a set of nuclear-use cases involving conflict on the
Korean peninsula. The cases reflect a wide range of ways that nuclear weapons might be …

ABSTRACT The Russia–Ukraine war has caused decision-makers worldwide to
acknowledge the thinkability (plausibility) of limited nuclear war. It has probably reduced any …

I am grateful to Dr. Cynthia Lightfoot and Dr. Kristin Woolever of Penn State Brandywine; Dr.
Lee Ann Banaszak, Head, Department of Political Science, University Park; and Dr. Madlyn …

The COVID19 pandemic has reinforced two of the main contributing factors to the current
age of disruption: the tendency of national leaders to act unilaterally; and the global decline …

Representing causal social science knowledge in models is difficult: much of the best
knowledge is qualitative and ambiguously conditional, unlike the knowledge in “physics …

The 2016 decision to deploy Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korea
has generated multitude of intensely politicized issues and has proved highly controversial …

This chapter develops from a presentation in a 2016 workshop on wargaming sponsored by
the Deputy Secretary of Defense as part of an initiative to use wargaming to help foster …

The purpose of this paper is to develop cases for the DPRK's use of nuclear weapons. As
background, firstly, the deterrence and countermeasure strategies of the United States-ROK …

Purpose This paper aims to provide a case study of complex conflict management within the
arms race on the Korean Peninsula. Exploring the complex nexus of nuclear weapons …