All Outputs (8)

The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, M., & Burman, S. (2024). The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei. Global Policy, 15(2), 355-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13352

This paper offers an analysis of US strategy in the unfolding US-China ‘tech war’ and its consequences. We argue that a tech war is now underway, and that Washington is the driving force behind it. Here we focus on the most impactful policy so far: t... Read More about The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei.

Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror (2019)
Book
RYAN, M. (2019). Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press

America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew out of it played out across multiple fronts beyond the Middle East. M... Read More about Full spectrum dominance : irregular warfare and the war on terror.

‘Enormous Opportunities’ and ‘Hot Frontiers’: Sub-Saharan Africa in U.S. Grand Strategy, 2001-Present (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan, M. (2019). ‘Enormous Opportunities’ and ‘Hot Frontiers’: Sub-Saharan Africa in U.S. Grand Strategy, 2001-Present. International History Review, 42(1), 155-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2018.1529696

This article argues that, in the 21st century, there has been a significant turnaround in the US approach to Sub-Saharan Africa. No longer is the region viewed solely as the site of human tragedy and internal wars where Washington has no tangible int... Read More about ‘Enormous Opportunities’ and ‘Hot Frontiers’: Sub-Saharan Africa in U.S. Grand Strategy, 2001-Present.

Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009 (2017)
Journal Article
Ryan, M. (2017). Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009. International Politics, 54(5), 561-582. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0054-8

This article challenges the common characterisation of George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “unilateral.” It argues that the Bush administration developed a new post-9/11 understanding of terrorism as a transnational, networked phenomenon shaped by the... Read More about Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009.

Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection (2017)
Journal Article
Siepielski, A. M., Morrissey, M. B., Buoro, M., Carlson, S. M., Caruso, C. M., Clegg, S. M., …MacColl, A. D. (2017). Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science, 355(6328), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag2773

Climate change has the potential to affect the ecology and evolution of every species on Earth. While the ecological consequences of climate change are increasingly well documented, the effects of climate on the key evolutionary process driving adapt... Read More about Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection.

The 'war on terror' and the new periphery (2017)
Book Chapter
Ryan, M. (2017). The 'war on terror' and the new periphery. In B. Sewell, & M. Ryan (Eds.), Foreign policy at the periphery: the shifting margins of international relations since World War II. University Press of Kentucky

This chapter exmaines the emergence of 'peripheral' fronts in the Bush administration's 'war on terror.' Since this 'war' was conceived from its inception as global in scope, it permitted the development of both 'core' and 'peripheral' fronts - the l... Read More about The 'war on terror' and the new periphery.

Wilful blindness or blissful ignorance? The United States and the successful denucelarization of Iraq (2014)
Journal Article
Ryan, M. (in press). Wilful blindness or blissful ignorance? The United States and the successful denucelarization of Iraq. Intelligence and National Security, 29(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2014.895596

This article examines the successful denuclearization of Iraq by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the early 1990s and the apparent failure of the US Intelligence Community (IC) to rethink its assessments of Saddam’s desire for nuclear... Read More about Wilful blindness or blissful ignorance? The United States and the successful denucelarization of Iraq.

'Full spectrum dominance': Donald Rumsfeld, the Department of Defense, and US irregular warfare strategy 2001-2008 (2014)
Journal Article
Ryan, M. (in press). 'Full spectrum dominance': Donald Rumsfeld, the Department of Defense, and US irregular warfare strategy 2001-2008. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2014.893600

This article examines the evolution of US irregular warfare (IW) doctrine and practice from 2001 onwards. It argues that, after 9/11, top-tier civilian policymakers in the US Department of Defense (DoD) and across the US government developed a height... Read More about 'Full spectrum dominance': Donald Rumsfeld, the Department of Defense, and US irregular warfare strategy 2001-2008.