China-Russia Security Relations: Strategic Parallelism Without Partnership or Passion?

Politics & Social Sciences

Richard Weitz

Politics & Government

Strategic Studies Institute, U

<p>The case studies in this volume confirm the conclusions of other PNSR analyses that the performance of the U.S. national security apparatus in inconsistent. Although some cases illustrate relatively clear, integrated strategy development, unified policy implementation, and coherent tactical planning, coordination, and execution; others depict flawed, divided, contradictory, and sometimes nonexistent strategy promulgation and enactment. Similarly, the U.S. national security system can provide resources efficiently, but it also can do so inadequately and tardily. Flawed responses recur in issue areas as diverse as biodefense, public diplomacy, and military intervention. They also occur across many presidential administrations, from the onset of the Cold War to the present day. The piecemeal organizational reforms enacted to date have not fostered improved policy outcomes or decisionmaking, while capability building, especially in the civilian national security agencies, remains less than optimal.</p>

Project on National Security - Case Studies Working Group Project Volume II

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

<p>Over the last two decades, relations between China and Russia have grown closer in ways that pose significant challenges for the United States and its allies and partners. Recently, as Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have consolidated power, the two leaders have cultivated a strategic axis that, while not a formal alliance, aims to undermine the United States and other liberal nations while expanding Chinese and Russian influence abroad. In this volume, leading U.S. experts explore the contours of this emergent axis of authoritarians in multiple domains and consider policy options for the United States to strengthen its position and defend its interests.</p>

Axis of Authoritarians: Implications of China-Russia Cooperation

Richard J. Ellings

Angela Stent

James B. Steinberg

Robert Sutter

Charles E. Ziegler

Peter Mattis

National Bureau of Asian Research

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