Matthew C Waxman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1494629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew C Waxman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Waxman |
| SIGNATURE | WAXMAN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hoover Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Minding the Commitment Gap
Recent work in the alliance politics literature has highlighted various strategies of reassurance. We argue that this extensive literature overlooks a critical element in American reassurance of its allies: perceptions of an American presidency willing and able to act unilaterally. Specifically, while allies seek for the American commitment to be automatic, each US defense pact contains a procedural clause conditioning the American commitment on …
Presidential Alliance Powers
Among President Donald Trump’s most heterodox foreign policy instincts is his lifelong disdain for American alliances. His supporters argue that his transactional diplomacy has prompted allies to p
The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare
Candidate Barack Obama pledged in 2008 to end the Bush administration's heavy military deployments, but not to end the war against al-Qaeda and its associates. He said that as President he would ke
Regulating Resort to Force
Much of the international legal debate about regulating force and self-defence takes place on a substantive axis, focusing on the scope of force prohibitions and exceptions. This article instead focuses on their doctrinal form, or modes of argumentation and analysis through which facts are assessed in relation to legal directives, to illuminate how many of the assumptions about substantive policy goals and risks tend to be coupled with other assu…
Terrorism
Forum
In the February–March 2009 issue of Survival (‘Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready?’, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 5–12) Sibylle Scheipers discussed the role of US President Barack Obama's moves to reform the detention system as a step towards renewing close transatlantic ties and facilitating transatlantic cooperation. But she also argued that it poses a difficult challenge to Europeans. Survival invited comments from three distinguished experts, and Sch…
Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate
The following section provides an overview of how to think about air power and coercion, addressing several key limits of the current literature. We next examine NATO goals in Kosovo and the mixed success eventually achieved. Using that baseline, we explore various explanations for Belgrade's eventual capitulation and clarify how air power's role in each of them should be understood; we leave aside the issue of whether coercion was a proper strat…
Emerging intelligence challenges
(1997). Emerging intelligence challenges. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 317-331
Strategic Terror
Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate
The following section provides an overview of how to think about air power and coercion, addressing several key limits of the current literature. We next examine NATO goals in Kosovo and the mixed success eventually achieved. Using that baseline, we explore various explanations for Belgrade's eventual capitulation and clarify how air power's role in each of them should be understood; we leave aside the issue of whether coercion was a proper strat…
The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare
Candidate Barack Obama pledged in 2008 to end the Bush administration's heavy military deployments, but not to end the war against al-Qaeda and its associates. He said that as President he would ke
Regulating Resort to Force
Much of the international legal debate about regulating force and self-defence takes place on a substantive axis, focusing on the scope of force prohibitions and exceptions. This article instead focuses on their doctrinal form, or modes of argumentation and analysis through which facts are assessed in relation to legal directives, to illuminate how many of the assumptions about substantive policy goals and risks tend to be coupled with other assu…
Emerging intelligence challenges
(1997). Emerging intelligence challenges. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 317-331
Strategic Terror
Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate
The following section provides an overview of how to think about air power and coercion, addressing several key limits of the current literature. We next examine NATO goals in Kosovo and the mixed success eventually achieved. Using that baseline, we explore various explanations for Belgrade's eventual capitulation and clarify how air power's role in each of them should be understood; we leave aside the issue of whether coercion was a proper strat…
Forum
In the February–March 2009 issue of Survival (‘Closing Guantanamo: Is Europe Ready?’, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 5–12) Sibylle Scheipers discussed the role of US President Barack Obama's moves to reform the detention system as a step towards renewing close transatlantic ties and facilitating transatlantic cooperation. But she also argued that it poses a difficult challenge to Europeans. Survival invited comments from three distinguished experts, and Sch…
Terrorism
Regulating Resort to Force
Much of the international legal debate about regulating force and self-defence takes place on a substantive axis, focusing on the scope of force prohibitions and exceptions. This article instead focuses on their doctrinal form, or modes of argumentation and analysis through which facts are assessed in relation to legal directives, to illuminate how many of the assumptions about substantive policy goals and risks tend to be coupled with other assu…
The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare
Candidate Barack Obama pledged in 2008 to end the Bush administration's heavy military deployments, but not to end the war against al-Qaeda and its associates. He said that as President he would ke
Presidential Alliance Powers
Among President Donald Trump’s most heterodox foreign policy instincts is his lifelong disdain for American alliances. His supporters argue that his transactional diplomacy has prompted allies to p
Minding the Commitment Gap
Recent work in the alliance politics literature has highlighted various strategies of reassurance. We argue that this extensive literature overlooks a critical element in American reassurance of its allies: perceptions of an American presidency willing and able to act unilaterally. Specifically, while allies seek for the American commitment to be automatic, each US defense pact contains a procedural clause conditioning the American commitment on …
Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Terrorism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · War on terror (3 works) · Alliance (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Foreign policy (2 works)