The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2014, Volume 37, Number 1

The format is approximately 6.75 inches by 10 inches. 165, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Some of the pages have some bending at the top right corner. Substantial ink marks have been noted. Cover has minor wear. The Washington Quarterly Editorial Offices are at The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. The contents include Military Humanitarianism: Syria Hasn't Killed It by Thomas Weiss; The Myth of Petroleum Independence and Foreign Policy Isolation by Sarah Emerson and Andrew Winner; How Autocracies Fall by Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz; Identifying Truly fragile States by Seth Kaplan; Agenda for a New Great Power Relationship by Wu Xinbo; East Asia's Maritime Disputes: Fishing in Troubled Waters by Alan Dupont and Christopher Baker; The South China is Not a Flashpoint by Brendan Taylor; Strategic Recalibration: Frame for a 21st-Century National Security Strategy by Bruce W. Jentleson; A Strategy of Discriminate Power: A Global Posture for Sustained Leadership by Michael J. Mazarr; Sizing U.S. Ground Forces: From "2 Wars" to "! War + 2 Missions" by Michael O'Hanlon. Michael Edward O'Hanlon (born May 16, 1961) is an American policy analyst currently serving as director of research and senior fellow of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.[1] He began his career as a budget analyst in the defense field. The Washington Quarterly (abbreviated as TWQ) is a magazine of international affairs covering topics and issues concerning global security, diplomatic relations, and policy implications. TWQ is published by the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, in Washington, DC. The Washington Quarterly was founded in 1978 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of the top think tanks in the United States. TWQ's original publisher was MIT Press. In 2014, TWQ came under the patronage of the George Washington University, via the Elliott School of International Affairs. In 2008, TWQ's publishing agreement with MIT Press had ended and it began to be published by Taylor & Francis. The Washington Quarterly is a global security policy journal that provides diverse perspectives on strategic changes, trends, and relations around the world along with their public policy implications. The journal addresses a broad range of topics within this theme, including the following: the future of global order and the US role in the world; the role of China, India, and other rising powers; nuclear security challenges including among new, aspiring, or great nuclear powers; democracy's geopolitical future—its strengths, weaknesses, and prospects; sanctions and other means of coercion in an interdependent world; the information contest and the security implications of disinformation; transnational security threats such as climate change, pandemics, and terrorism. Contributors reflect diverse political, regional, and professional perspectives, coming from in and outside of the United States. Essays are authoritative yet written for the informed global affairs generalist. Members of the analytical, diplomatic, intelligence, media, and policymaking communities value TWQ as a source of incisive, independent thinking about global political and security challenges and policies. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue on U.S. Security Strategy.…