An update from the European Journal of International Security
Our journal European Journal of International Security (EJIS) bring you their latest updates.
A new month brings a new EJIS issue - European Journal of International Security Volume 10 Issue 4 is out now, just one month after Issue 3! It contains eight articles, ranging from Ostpolitik and the Ukraine War to the far-right in Brazil.
We also have a number of high-quality open-access firstview articles that have been published this month:
David Blagden, Ronald R. Krebs, Ronald R. Krebs, and Robert Ralston's "What do we owe soldiers? Evidence from the UK Armed Forces Covenant" asks what people in liberal polities believe they owe soldiers for their service.
Shuqi Wang and Mingjiang Li's "Soft wedging: China’s strategic response to the Japan–South Korea entente under US-led trilateral security cooperation" examines China’s strategic response to the Japan–South Korea entente within the broader context of US-led trilateral security cooperation since the 2010s, deepening our understanding of multi-target wedging dynamics and China’s strategic objectives in Northeast Asia’s evolving security landscape..
Maria Papageorgiou and Valentina Feklyunina's "Alignment as a process: Explaining the trajectory of the Sino–Russian relationship" asks which factors make aligned relationships possible, focusing on specific upgrades in the Sino–Russian relationship as presented by both states in 1996, 2001, 2011, and 2021 while also discussing more recent developments after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Scott Fisher, Graig R. Klein, Juris Pupcenoks, and Juste Codjo's excellent article "China, DIME, and innovative deterrence methodology: How authoritarian states react to deterrence activities through information" attempts to shift deterrence scholarship from its disproportionate focus on military instruments, instead addressing this imbalance through a new methodology for analysing how authoritarian states respond to the range of foreign policy tools.
Felix Schulte, Juris Pupcenoks, and Māris Andžāns' "Cultural memory and the minority effect in (un-)willingness to fight for the country: Evidence from Russian speakers in Latvia" was particularly timely and insightful look into how and why people may (or may not) fight for their country
Finally, "Atomic responsiveness: How public opinion shapes elite beliefs and preferences on nuclear weapon use" from Michal Smetana, Lauren Sukin, Stephen Herzog, and Marek Vranka is proving a popular and influential article which highlights the role of public opinion as both an enabling and constraining force on nuclear use and provide new theoretical and empirical insights into elite decision-making in nuclear politics.
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