Volume 13 Issue 1 - Spring 2019 Published Feb. 26, 2019 Strategic Studies Quarterly, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL POLICY FORUM China’s Competitive Strategy: An Interview with Robert O. Work China’s competitive strategy is designed to overcome technological inferiority, move to technological parity, and achieve technological superiority. Here’s how. FEATURE ARTICLE Pessimism and Nostalgia in the Second Nuclear Age Christopher J. Fettweis Why does pessimism about the second nuclear age, and even nostalgia for the Cold War persist among nuclear scholars? PERSPECTIVES Conventional Arms Transfers and US Economic Security Eugene Gholz Should conventional arms transfer decisions include an economic security analysis, how to conduct the analysis, and who should conduct the analysis? The Changing Dynamics of Twenty-First-Century Space Power James Clay Moltz What dynamics may reshape traditional definitions of space power and the prospects for US success in future competition with China and Russia? Horizontal Escalation: An Asymmetric Approach to Russian Aggression? Michael Fitzsimmons Can horizontal escalation help deter Russian aggression or manage escalation in a US/NATO-Russia crisis—particularly in the Baltic States? Deterring Terrorists Abroad: The Implausibility of Indirect Deterrence Ann Mezzell Is security force assistance an effective means of shoring up partner stability, inhibiting civil war, and deterring terrorists? Or does it risk leaving partner states more susceptible to intrastate war, and the US more susceptible to terrorist threats? DOWNLOAD FULL EDITION
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