Overview
What is ‘compound security’? What is the ‘Compound Security Dilemma’? How might this new security dilemma alter world-system power-politics?
- Walter Russell Mead, “The End of History Ends,” The American Interest (2013)
- Wilson III, Isaiah. “The True Tragedy of American Power, Parameters, Vol 43 (No.4) Winter 2013-14. PDF
- Isaiah Wilson III & Scott A. Smitson, "The Compound Security Dilemma: Threats at the Nexus of War and Peace," Parameters 50, no. 2 (2020)
- Christopher Rudolph, “Sovereignty and Territorial Borders in a Global Age,” International Studies Review 7, no. 1 (2005), 1-20 in JSTOR. PDF
Readings for case study:
- 2018 NDS IW Annex (Unclass)
- Kevin Bilms, “Better Understanding Irregular Warfare in Competition,” Military Times, 01 January 2021
- Richard H. Shultz and Gen. Richard D. Clarke, “Big Data at War: Special Operations Forces, Project Maven, and Twenty-First-Century Warfare,” Modern War Institute
- General Richard Clarke and Dr. Isaiah Wilson III, “Rediscovering the Full Utility of Special Operations Forces,Foreign Affairs (forthcoming).