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New Study Charts Practical Steps for Getting Further, Faster with US Nonproliferation Programs
A new book by Brian D. Finlay and Elizabeth Turpen, Ph.D.
Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster provides a critical and contemporary assessment of the programs intended to reduce the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons’ proliferation risks stemming from the collapse of the Former Soviet Union (FSU). This book and its condensed policymakers’ companion piece, 25 Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terror: A Guide for Policymakers, by Stimson Senior Associates Brian Finlay and Elizabeth Turpen, offer a fresh and bold approach to building on programs created at the end of the Cold War aimed at dismantling Soviet-era weapons programs and engaging scientists in peaceful pursuits.Read more »
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The Dragon's Shadow: The Rise of China and Japan's New Nationalism
Japan's Friendship Diplomacy with China succeeded only so long as it maintained a penitent and conciliatory policy towards China and adjured militarism. But with the end of the Cold War, the explosion of China's economic growth, and the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, the Friendship paradigm gave way to an emerging sense of threat from both China and Korea. In The Dragon's Shadow, Ben Self chronicles the development of Japan's "reluctant realism" and the possible consequences for future stability in Northeast Asia and the US-Japan alliance. Rich Cronin's thoughtful afterword explores the near term policy impact on the United States.
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21st Century Peace Operations analyzes ten years of achievements, challenges and lessons learned
In this new century, a rising proportion of the world's societal wars are ending not in victory for one side but in stalemate and negotiated peace, outside military intervention, or both, as events in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, and Sierra Leone have borne witness. Additionally, a rising number of soldiers, police officers, and other personnel from the international community have helped war-damaged lands regain their footing through peace operations run by the United Nations, NATO, and other organizations. 21st Century Peace Operations, edited by Dr. William J. Durch, gives a comprehensive analysis of ten years of sustained effort and explores what has been accomplished and what lessons have been learned?
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Who Should Keep the Peace?
Authors Dr. William Durch and Tobias Berkman offer a critical "institutional performance review" of security providers in peace operations--from the United Nations to the private sector--comparing them on many dimensions, from legitimacy and deployment agility to firepower and staying power. Its concluding observations stress the risks of either privatizing peace or of making its rebuilding a largely military enterprise. This "comprehensive and accessible account...will be required reading for analysts and policy-makers alike."
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The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the Responsibility to Protect, and Modern Peace Operations
Is the world prepared to use military force to protect civilians from mass violence? As policymakers embrace the idea of an international "responsibility to protect" civilians from genocide and mass violence, more attention is needed on how military missions should protect civilians and what multinational organizations and national armed services are doing to prepare for such operations. This study looks at these tough questions, examines various concepts of civilian protection and identifies the challenges.
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Leading Experts Promote Pragmatic Course Correction for Iraq
America's engagement in Iraq will have profound consequences for US interests and American national security for the foreseeable future. To contribute to the national debate, the Stimson Center brought together former policy practitioners and experts to examine the impact of Iraq on America's interests and identify achievable outcomes and available options.
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Study Explores US Crisis Management Lessons from South Asia's Twin Peaks Crisis
The case study of the "Twin Peaks" crisis by Polly Nayak and Michael Krepon, is based on over two dozen interviews with US crisis managers who were situated at the time in Washington, New Delhi, and Islamabad. Among those interviewed were Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill, and US Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell.
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Stewardship or Censorship? Balancing Biosecurity, the Public Health and the Benefits of Scientific Openness
Stewardship or Censorship? tackles the thorny issue of how bioscience research, public health, and national security interact in the complicated post-September 11 legal and policy environment. Dr. Julie Fischer outlines the passionate disagreements that have arisen over new requirements imposed on scientific research as a result of the anthrax scare and enduring concern about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
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