This paper continues and builds on efforts to center the study of national security policy as a field in American and comparative politics and public policy. The traditional division of labor that kept national security policy predominantly the province and concern of IR has eroded, especially...

The paper investigates determinants of investments in state capacity and institutional change in contemporary Ukraine. After formulating a simple sequential two-stage model of investments in state capacity, the paper estimates autoregressive distributed lag and vector autoregressive models to...

The coming of the third front campaign -- Good people and good horses go to the third front -- Concentrating forces to wage wars of annihilation -- Produce first and consume later -- Industrial development amid cold war insecurity -- Epilogue: the demilitarization of Chinese socialism.