Zachary Selden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1599121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Selden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Selden |
| SIGNATURE | SELDEN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7527-4896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Nazi legacy in the Development of West German Intelligence
Norman Ridley tells a fascinating story of Reinhard Gehlen, a German artillery officer who becomes a key player in the development of German military intelligence during World War II and intelligen
A New “Cult of the Offensive?” Elite Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Military Affairs in the United States and the People’s Republic of China
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in military affairs is largely limited to logistics, transport, reconnaissance, and other support functions at present. Yet, the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are also making significant progress in developing autonomous combat vehicles and other offensive applications of AI. The ambiguous nature and multifaceted applications of AI in military affairs could be seen as either increas…
The History of Economic Sanctions in War
Special Intelligence Service of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Special Intelligence Service (SIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created in 1940 as a foreign intelligence collection and analysis agency operating in the Western Hemisphere. Despite initial difficulties, it rapidly grew into a significant service, expanding its operations to Europe and providing finished intelligence products for the Department of State and other bureaucracies. The SIS was gradually closed in the years fol…
The General Intelligence Division
The United States maintains a constellation of sophisticated intelligence agencies that comprise a critical component of what some scholars refer to as the national security state. Many historians
Taming the bear
The rapid growth of US LNG exports is promoted by the US government in Europe as a viable substitute for Russian gas. But is American LNG actually the “game-changer” that some officials claim it to be? At one level it is not, simply because LNG is more expensive than Russian gas and plays a relatively small role in the overall energy mixture used in Europe. Taking a broader perspective, however, American LNG acts as an underwriter of European ene…
Economic interdependence and economic sanctions
Economic sanctions impose costs on sender as well as target states, and those costs increase with the degree of interdependence between the states in question. We test the hypothesis that EU member states that are more economically interdependent with Russia would be the most opposed to the imposition of sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine in 2013–2014. However, an analysis of the debate over the imposition of sanctions show…
Demography, defence budgets, and the transatlantic alliance
Is French defence policy becoming more Atlanticist
France is one of the most prominent European military powers and a strong proponent of an independent European military capability. Yet, France’s actions since 2009 suggest that it may be prioritizing the transatlantic relationship over the development of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Does this signal a fundamental Atlanticist shift in the way that France envisions its future defence and security, or does it simply sign…
Competing Identities and Security Interests in the Indo–US Relationship
The United States and India have forged a remarkably close security relationship since 2000, given the previous hostility of India to American foreign policy in general. Indian state identity until the mid-1990s was shaped by nonalignment and antipathy to the US-led liberal economic order. If identity is the source of interests, then how do states adopt policies that conflict with core elements of their identity when geopolitical shifts push stat…
Balancing Against or Balancing With? The Spectrum of Alignment and the Endurance of American Hegemony
During the 2001–2009 period when American foreign policy was internationally unpopular and perceived as unilateral, many states strengthened their security cooperation with the United States and facilitated the reach of the us military. This behavior spans a range of actions along a spectrum from reaffirming traditional alliances to far more subtle forms of alignment. This pattern is in large part driven by the actions of regional powers such as …
The European Debt Crisis and American Security Policy
The European Union (EU) is building the institutional capability to play a larger role in global security affairs and there is an acknowledged need for it to develop improved power projection capabilities if it is going to engage in the full range of crisis management tasks. European militaries, however, are for the most part still in the process of transforming themselves from static defense forces into deployable units that are useful for the s…
A Stability-Seeking Power
Journal Article A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts by Jonathan Paquin Get access A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflictsby Jonathan Paquin. Quebec, Canada, McGill-Queenʼs University Press, 2010. 230pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $27.95. Zachary Selden Zachary Selden University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
Power is Always in Fashion
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is in large part a product of the institutional development of the EU and the consolidation of its authority over internal issues. This parallels the development of the United States as a global actor shortly after the federal government consolidated power over domestic affairs in the 1890s
Stabilization and Democratization
The transatlantic disagreement over how to deal with the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 gave rise to a spate of warnings about the imminent demise of NATO. (1) To some extent it is easy to discount many of those predictions based on the endurance of the alliance and its ongoing expansion. But there is an underlying concern that should not be ignored: The original mission of the alliance disappeared 15 years ago and nothing has completely taken …
Nato’s New Members
Whether NATO continues to expand will be determined in part by how well the most recent members integrate into the alliance
Foreign Policy Failure in the White House
Journal Article Foreign Policy Failure in the White House: Reappraising the Fall of the Shah and the Iran-Contra Affair. By Charles-Philippe David, Nancy Ann Carrol, and Zachary A. Seiden. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993. iv, 191 pp. Cloth, $46.50, ISBN 0-8191-9075-6. Paper, $21.50, ISBN 0-8191-9076-4.) Get access James Goode James Goode Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Foreign Policy Failure in the White House
Power is Always in Fashion
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is in large part a product of the institutional development of the EU and the consolidation of its authority over internal issues. This parallels the development of the United States as a global actor shortly after the federal government consolidated power over domestic affairs in the 1890s
Economic interdependence and economic sanctions
Economic sanctions impose costs on sender as well as target states, and those costs increase with the degree of interdependence between the states in question. We test the hypothesis that EU member states that are more economically interdependent with Russia would be the most opposed to the imposition of sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine in 2013–2014. However, an analysis of the debate over the imposition of sanctions show…
Is French defence policy becoming more Atlanticist
France is one of the most prominent European military powers and a strong proponent of an independent European military capability. Yet, France’s actions since 2009 suggest that it may be prioritizing the transatlantic relationship over the development of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Does this signal a fundamental Atlanticist shift in the way that France envisions its future defence and security, or does it simply sign…
Balancing Against or Balancing With? The Spectrum of Alignment and the Endurance of American Hegemony
During the 2001–2009 period when American foreign policy was internationally unpopular and perceived as unilateral, many states strengthened their security cooperation with the United States and facilitated the reach of the us military. This behavior spans a range of actions along a spectrum from reaffirming traditional alliances to far more subtle forms of alignment. This pattern is in large part driven by the actions of regional powers such as …
A New “Cult of the Offensive?” Elite Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Military Affairs in the United States and the People’s Republic of China
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in military affairs is largely limited to logistics, transport, reconnaissance, and other support functions at present. Yet, the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are also making significant progress in developing autonomous combat vehicles and other offensive applications of AI. The ambiguous nature and multifaceted applications of AI in military affairs could be seen as either increas…
Competing Identities and Security Interests in the Indo–US Relationship
The United States and India have forged a remarkably close security relationship since 2000, given the previous hostility of India to American foreign policy in general. Indian state identity until the mid-1990s was shaped by nonalignment and antipathy to the US-led liberal economic order. If identity is the source of interests, then how do states adopt policies that conflict with core elements of their identity when geopolitical shifts push stat…
Foreign Policy Failure in the White House
Foreign Policy Failure in the White House
Foreign Policy Failure in the White House
Journal Article Foreign Policy Failure in the White House: Reappraising the Fall of the Shah and the Iran-Contra Affair. By Charles-Philippe David, Nancy Ann Carrol, and Zachary A. Seiden. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993. iv, 191 pp. Cloth, $46.50, ISBN 0-8191-9075-6. Paper, $21.50, ISBN 0-8191-9076-4.) Get access James Goode James Goode Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Nato’s New Members
Whether NATO continues to expand will be determined in part by how well the most recent members integrate into the alliance
Stabilization and Democratization
The transatlantic disagreement over how to deal with the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 gave rise to a spate of warnings about the imminent demise of NATO. (1) To some extent it is easy to discount many of those predictions based on the endurance of the alliance and its ongoing expansion. But there is an underlying concern that should not be ignored: The original mission of the alliance disappeared 15 years ago and nothing has completely taken …
Power is Always in Fashion
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is in large part a product of the institutional development of the EU and the consolidation of its authority over internal issues. This parallels the development of the United States as a global actor shortly after the federal government consolidated power over domestic affairs in the 1890s
A Stability-Seeking Power
Journal Article A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts by Jonathan Paquin Get access A Stability-Seeking Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflictsby Jonathan Paquin. Quebec, Canada, McGill-Queenʼs University Press, 2010. 230pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $27.95. Zachary Selden Zachary Selden University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
The European Debt Crisis and American Security Policy
The European Union (EU) is building the institutional capability to play a larger role in global security affairs and there is an acknowledged need for it to develop improved power projection capabilities if it is going to engage in the full range of crisis management tasks. European militaries, however, are for the most part still in the process of transforming themselves from static defense forces into deployable units that are useful for the s…
Balancing Against or Balancing With? The Spectrum of Alignment and the Endurance of American Hegemony
During the 2001–2009 period when American foreign policy was internationally unpopular and perceived as unilateral, many states strengthened their security cooperation with the United States and facilitated the reach of the us military. This behavior spans a range of actions along a spectrum from reaffirming traditional alliances to far more subtle forms of alignment. This pattern is in large part driven by the actions of regional powers such as …
Competing Identities and Security Interests in the Indo–US Relationship
The United States and India have forged a remarkably close security relationship since 2000, given the previous hostility of India to American foreign policy in general. Indian state identity until the mid-1990s was shaped by nonalignment and antipathy to the US-led liberal economic order. If identity is the source of interests, then how do states adopt policies that conflict with core elements of their identity when geopolitical shifts push stat…
Is French defence policy becoming more Atlanticist
France is one of the most prominent European military powers and a strong proponent of an independent European military capability. Yet, France’s actions since 2009 suggest that it may be prioritizing the transatlantic relationship over the development of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy. Does this signal a fundamental Atlanticist shift in the way that France envisions its future defence and security, or does it simply sign…
Demography, defence budgets, and the transatlantic alliance
Economic interdependence and economic sanctions
Economic sanctions impose costs on sender as well as target states, and those costs increase with the degree of interdependence between the states in question. We test the hypothesis that EU member states that are more economically interdependent with Russia would be the most opposed to the imposition of sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine in 2013–2014. However, an analysis of the debate over the imposition of sanctions show…
Taming the bear
The rapid growth of US LNG exports is promoted by the US government in Europe as a viable substitute for Russian gas. But is American LNG actually the “game-changer” that some officials claim it to be? At one level it is not, simply because LNG is more expensive than Russian gas and plays a relatively small role in the overall energy mixture used in Europe. Taking a broader perspective, however, American LNG acts as an underwriter of European ene…
The General Intelligence Division
The United States maintains a constellation of sophisticated intelligence agencies that comprise a critical component of what some scholars refer to as the national security state. Many historians
Special Intelligence Service of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Special Intelligence Service (SIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was created in 1940 as a foreign intelligence collection and analysis agency operating in the Western Hemisphere. Despite initial difficulties, it rapidly grew into a significant service, expanding its operations to Europe and providing finished intelligence products for the Department of State and other bureaucracies. The SIS was gradually closed in the years fol…
The History of Economic Sanctions in War
A New “Cult of the Offensive?” Elite Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Military Affairs in the United States and the People’s Republic of China
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in military affairs is largely limited to logistics, transport, reconnaissance, and other support functions at present. Yet, the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are also making significant progress in developing autonomous combat vehicles and other offensive applications of AI. The ambiguous nature and multifaceted applications of AI in military affairs could be seen as either increas…
The Nazi legacy in the Development of West German Intelligence
Norman Ridley tells a fascinating story of Reinhard Gehlen, a German artillery officer who becomes a key player in the development of German military intelligence during World War II and intelligen
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