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🚨New article online "Securing cyberspace is a public concern, but often a private task." M. Weiss and N. Krieger analyse 290 business exchanges between USCYBERCOM and private suppliers to better understand public-private coordination in cybersecurity. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New article online In this article, Z. Arynov and T. Umirbekov study public perceptions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). They focus on Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, where the CSTO has become a much-debated organisation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New article online In this article, Christopher Spearin shows how Russia's use of Authoritarian Conflict Management (ACM) techniques in Africa through Wagner Group has also disrupted several Chinese efforts. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New article online Military exercises have an important role as sources of political-military messaging, argues Gregory Raymond. So, what does the decline in the scale of exercise Cobra Gold in the past 15 years tell us about the Thailand-US alliance? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New article online "In today’s Sino-US strategic competition, US allies face significant costs for alignment with Washington" Do citizens of secondary powers penalize their leadership for retracting alignment commitments? Insights from South Korea: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy to see this paper is finally out! Special thanks to Matt Fuhrmann and Texas A&M Political Science for supporting this project. x.com/CSP_journal/st…

🚨New article "Conventional arms control and military balance in Europe" W. Lippert & J. Becker determine when rival states in Europe decide to sacrifice some of their relative military capability when entering conventional arms control agreements. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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🚨New article online How do states seek to weaken a competitor externally or internally for negative balancing purposes? In this article, Tongfi Kim @tongfi-kim.bsky.social & Luis Simón provide a novel framework for analysing wedge strategies. doi.org/10.1080/135232… CSDS

🚨New article online As part of a forthcoming special section on joint military exercises and regional order building in Asia, Chow-Bing Ngeow and Chiew-Ping Hoo show why Malaysia pursues defense cooperation and military exercises with the US and China. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New article online In this article, Laurie Nathan studies mediations undertaken by African multilateral organizations in response to 22 coups between 2000-2022 to show how/when mediators engage in bargaining with conflict parties. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…