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The US-China ‘tech war’: decoupling and the case of Huawei (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, M., & Burman, S. (2024). The US-China ‘tech war’: decoupling and the case of Huawei. Global Policy, 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 US-China ‘tech war’: decoupling and the case of Huawei.

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.

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.