As far as understanding GOF research goes, I heavily recommend the first 30 pages of Arms and Influence (1966) by Thomas Schelling (yes, the Schelling).
Summary: credibly threatening to destroy the world with deranged offensive WMD activity (including research) tends to be a winning strategy for coercing rival superpowers into accepting a worse bargaining position, even if the adversary’s leadership tries very hard to not establish a precedent of giving in to that type of coercion.
The strategic logic of why it tends to works so well is described mostly in the first 2 chapters of the book, which is one of the most well-known foreign affairs/diplomacy books in the field. If Balsa has research interns then it should definitely be on their list.
As far as understanding GOF research goes, I heavily recommend the first 30 pages of Arms and Influence (1966) by Thomas Schelling (yes, the Schelling).
Summary: credibly threatening to destroy the world with deranged offensive WMD activity (including research) tends to be a winning strategy for coercing rival superpowers into accepting a worse bargaining position, even if the adversary’s leadership tries very hard to not establish a precedent of giving in to that type of coercion.
The strategic logic of why it tends to works so well is described mostly in the first 2 chapters of the book, which is one of the most well-known foreign affairs/diplomacy books in the field. If Balsa has research interns then it should definitely be on their list.