Security Studies 

About: Security Studies is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Security studies & Political science. It has an ISSN identifier of 0963-6412. Over the lifetime, 808 publications have been published receiving 21863 citations.

Neorealism's status‐quo bias: What security dilemma?

Abstract: (1996). Neorealism's status‐quo bias: What security dilemma? Security Studies: Vol. 5, Realism: Restatements and Renewal, pp. 90-121.

International politics is not foreign policy

Abstract: (1996). International politics is not foreign policy. Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 54-57.

Stuxnet and the Limits of Cyber Warfare

Abstract: Stuxnet, the computer worm which disrupted Iranian nuclear enrichment in 2010, is the first instance of a computer network attack known to cause physical damage across international boundaries. Some have described Stuxnet as the harbinger of a new form of warfare that threatens even the strongest military powers. The influential but largely untested Cyber Revolution thesis holds that the internet gives militarily weaker actors asymmetric advantages, that offense is becoming easier while defense is growing harder, and that the attacker's anonymity undermines deterrence. However, the empirical facts of Stuxnet support an opposite interpretation; cyber capabilities can marginally enhance the power of stronger over weaker actors, the complexity of weaponization makes cyber offense less easy and defense more feasible than generally appreciated, and cyber options are most attractive when deterrence is intact. Stuxnet suggests that considerable social and technical uncertainties associated with cyber operations ...

Horses for courses: Why nor neorealist theories of foreign policy?

Abstract: (1996). Horses for courses: Why nor neorealist theories of foreign policy? Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 7-53.

European Union Security and Defense Policy: Response to Unipolarity?

Abstract: The European Union has, since 1999, moved deliberately, if slowly, to develop the capability to undertake autonomously a range of demanding political military operations beyond Europe's borders. This effort, the European Security and Defense Policy (esdp), is a puzzle insofar as post-Cold War Europe is very secure, and most European nations are members of an established alliance, the u.s.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization. esdp is best explained by the international relations theory known as structural realism, the modern guise of balance of power theory. Balance of power theory is contrasted with balance of threat theory. Though European states are not motivated by a perception of an imminent threat from the United States, they are balancing u.s. power. The concentration of global power in the United States, unipolarity, is uncomfortable even for its friends who fear the abandonment that u.s. freedom of action permits and who wish to influence the global political environment the United States could...