Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space argues that US military and economic security is best served by avoiding the flight-testing and deployment of space weaponry. The pursuit of space dominance could impair global commerce, produce environmental debris in space, and harm relations between the United States, Russia, and China. Written by Stimson senior associate Michael Krepon and Christopher Clary, this book proposes useful steps that the United States and the international community can take to avoid the weaponization of space while continuing to utilize space for military and peaceful purposes.

Space Assurance or Space Dominance: The Case Against Weaponizing Space

Krepon, Michael

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Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and US-PRC Relations draws extensively on the US-PRC negotiating record to assess the issues and dynamics at play on the Taiwan question. While Beijing and Taipei are ultimately responsible for their future relationship, the book argues that American leaders, inattentive to the history and the nuances of normalization, have generated unintended crises – and could do so again. Written by Stimson senior associate and East Asia program director Alan D. Romberg, this study has been hailed as "the definitive work on the evolution of the Taiwan question."

Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and US-PRC Relations

Romberg, Alan D.

The Brahimi Report and the Future of Peace Operations assesses implementation to date of the "Brahimi Report," a landmark document published in 2000 that recommended sweeping changes in UN peacekeeping and associated post-conflict peacebuilding efforts. This book also examines the implications of this landmark report on the UN's ability to anticipate and successfully implement complex operations. The authors assess situations where implementation has achieved, fallen short of, or exceeded the objectives laid out by the Report and propose additional recommendations to enhance UN operational capacity in a rapidly evolving global political and conflict environment.

The Brahimi Report and the Future of UN Peace Operations

Durch, William J.

Holt, Victoria K.

Earle, Caroline R.

Shanahan, Moira K.

Japan’s Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century is the culmination of a joint US-Japan task force assembled to examine the prospect of a nuclear Japan, a notion fueled by burgeoning Japanese nationalism and the prospect of a nuclear North Korea. Led by Stimson senior associate Benjamin Self and Jeffrey Thompson, the task force included specialists on Japanese domestic politics, East Asian regional security, and nuclear non-proliferation. Participants approached Japan’s nuclear options from three perspectives – Japan’s security, political, and policy contexts – and concluded that Japan is unlikely to "go nuclear" in the foreseeable future.

Japan's Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia offers new insight into nuclear policy and conflict avoidance on the subcontinent. Edited by Michael Krepon, Rodney W. Jones, and Ziad Haider, this collection of essays from prominent Indian, Pakistani, and American experts seeks to shed light on the current state of Indian-Pakistani nuclear rivalry and its implications for the international community. This volume represents the beginning of a new literature that pays homage to the intellectual legacy of the Cold War, but also recognizes the need for fresh thinking grounded in South Asian realities.

Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia

Is the world prepared to use military force to protect civilians from mass violence? In 2001, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty argued that when nations failed to protect their citizens from large-scale violence and genocide, the international community should take on that "responsibility to protect." As policymakers embrace the idea of such a responsibility, 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. It considers likely international actors and the tools used to prepare forces - mandates, rules of engagement, doctrine, and training - to support their missions. Key issues confronting peacekeepers mandated to protect civilians are examined in the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This book identifies clear gaps that must be addressed if aspirations to protect civilians are to transcend rhetoric and translate into effective action in the field.

The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the Responsibility to Protect and Modern Peace Operations

Victoria K. Holt and Tobias C. Berkman

Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences explores how Iraq impacts America's regional and global standing and examines how the costs of Iraq affect America's other foreign policy and domestic priorities. With chapters from leading experts, the book provides in-depth, pragmatic insight into the issues of governance, security and reconstruction as well as US policy options, capabilities and leverage.

Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences

Ellen Laipson, Maureen S. Steinbruner, Paul Pillar, Barbara Bodine, Robin Raphel, David Edelstein, Michael Eisenstadt, Avis Bohlen, Daniel Poneman, Nancy Soderberg, Michael Kraig, Gordon Adams, Denis McDonough

Maintaining peace has traditionally been the job of nations but, as populations grow, distances shrink, borders leak, and belief systems clash, it has increasingly become a multinational, collaborative task. As evidence, consider the number of peace support operations (PSOs) now working in the world's least-well-governed, most-conflict-ridden regions and the growing number of institutions supporting them. These operations bring military, policing, and other resources to bear, under international mandate, in the wake of war. This volume offers a critical "institutional performance review" of PSO security providers--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.

Who Should Keep the Peace? Providing Security for Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations

William Durch and Tobias Berkman

Japan's era of Friendship Diplomacy with China developed and flourised in the aftermath of Japan's World War II defeat and flourished in the unique circumstances of the Cold War. However, Friendship Diplomacy succeeded only so long as Japan maintained a penitent and conciliatory policy towards China and abjured militarism, and China at least tacitly recognized Japan's regional leadership position and remained dependent on Japanese aid, investment and trade. The end of the Cold War roughly coincided with China's explosion of economic growth and the bursting of Japan's bubble economy of the late 1980s and the onset of economic stagnation. The Friendship paradigm could not survive the emerging sense of threat from China and North Korea, which fueled Japan's "reluctant realism" and reawakened nationalism. In these circumstances, Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine touched a deep nerve and created mutual estrangement. The election of the populist-nationalist Abe Shinzo as prime minister in September 2006 both confirmed Japan's new direction and offered the possibility of reestablishing normal and cooperative, if not friendly relations. In light of North Korea's newly demonstrated nuclear capability, the peace and security of Northeast Asia may hang in the balance.

The Dragon's Shadow: the Rise of China and Japan's New Nationalism

Benjamin Self

The United States and Japan have been celebrating a transformation of the US-Japan alliance in recent years. But has Japan really changed as much as often protrayed? As the United States continues to work with Japan to make the US-Japan alliance more functional, US policymakers must be aware of this gap. Japan's National Security Policy Infrastructure: Can Tokyo Meet Washington's Expectations? offers a window into the often opaque Japaneses national security policy infrastructure among US policymakers as well as those who are interested in Japanese security policy and its impact on the US-Japan alliance.

Japan's National Security Policy Infrastructure

Yuki Tatsumi

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