The Virtual Weapon: Dilemmas and Future Scenarios

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The cyber revolution challenges conventional mechanisms of deterrence and conflict management. It is difficult to attribute responsibility for and even detect cyber operations. The growing ability of nonstate actors to conduct offensive action further complicates the design of measures to repulse it. A large-scale cyberattack could instigate an intensifying spiral of escalation involving conventional strikes.

R2P’s Unfinished Journey: the Lingering Promise of Prevention

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Monica Serrano, Professor of International Relations, El Colegio de México, presents her recent book The International Politics of Human Rights: Rallying to the R2P Cause? (co-edited with Thomas G. Weiss), which covers the debates on the prevention of mass atrocities and the Reponsibility to Protect (R2P’s) normative prospects.

British Diplomacy and Changing Views of Chinese Governmental Capability over the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

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Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military, and political domination. This shifted dramatically during WWII, when alliances needed to be realigned, resulting in the evolution of China's relationships with the USSR, the U.S., Britain, France, India, and Japan.
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