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Orbis Spring 2016

All articles from Orbis are available at the Orbis website on Elsevier’s Science Direct.

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  • Orbis
  • Spring 2016
  • Volume 60
  • Number 2

Editor’s Corner Spring 2016

  • Mackubin Thomas Owens

Article References

Could Four Simmering Global Crises Boil Over?

  • Arthur Waldron

The Cyber Threat to Nuclear Stability

  • Paul Bracken

The Fall of Empires and the Formation of the Modern Middle East

  • Adam Garfinkle

Avoiding Strategic Inertia: Enabling the National Security Council

  • Frank G. Hoffman
  • Ryan Neuhard

On Strategy, Grand and Mundane

  • Paul Miller

The Futility of Buffer Zones in International Politics

  • Lionel Beehner
  • Gustav Meibauer

Why Germany Won’t Be Dropping Bombs on Syria, Iraq or Mali

  • Douglas C. Peifer

Global Governance Structure for Infectious Disease: An Enforceable Strategy

  • Harvey Rubin
  • Nicholas Saidel

Beijing’s March West: Opportunities and Challenges for China’s Eurasian Pivot

  • Michael Clarke

Review Essays

Why Turkey and the PKK Have Failed to Make Peace

  • Nick Danforth

The Crucial Role of Leaders in Democratic Transitions

  • Adrian A. Basora
Orbis Spring 2016

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