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Dr. William J. Perry
Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
19th Secretary of Defense for the United States
March 1999
Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America
Book
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
"The most important book by any ex-Clinton official."
-Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times (April 16, 1999)
January 1992
A New Concept of Cooperative Security
Book
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, John D. Steinbruner, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1973-1977 and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
Innovative book by Carter, Steinbruner, and Perry
August 1990
New Thinking and American Defense Technology
Book
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
Report of the Carnegie Comission on Science, Technology, and Government
2007
China's Rise in American Military Strategy
Book Chapter
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
The U.S. has no choice but to adopt a two-pronged strategy towards China: one prong of engagement to encourage China to be a "responsible stakeholder" and another prong of hedging against the prospect of a downturn in relations.
September 2006
Proliferation on the Peninsula: Five North Korean Nuclear Crises
Book Chapter
By Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
Dr. William J. Perry's book chapter in Confronting the Spector of Nuclear Terrorism.
September 2000
Countering Asymmetric Threats
Book Chapter
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and David Aidekman
Chapter in Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
1999
Defining NATO's Purpose
Book Chapter
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and Hilary D. Driscoll
Article examining NATO's past, present, and future for the Eisenhower InstituteOctober 16, 2006
China's Rise in American Military Strategy
Conference Paper
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
Carter and Perry call for a two-pronged strategy towards China: one prong of engagement to encourage China to be a "responsible stakeholder" and another prong of hedging against the prospect of a downturn in relations.
Jan/Feb/Mar 2008
No Torture. No Exceptions.
Journal Article, The Washington Monthly, issue 1-3, volume 40
By Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
PDP Co-Director Perry contributes to this collection of essays on the subject of torture.
Autumn 2007
The Day After: Action Following a Nuclear Blast in a U.S. City
Journal Article, Washington Quarterly, issue 4, volume 30
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and Dr. Michael M. May, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Failure to develop a comprehensive contingency plan, such as the one proposed here, and inform the American public, where appropriate, about its particulars will only serve to amplify the devastating impact of any nuclear attack on a U.S. city



