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Dr. William J. Perry

Dr. William J. Perry

Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project

19th Secretary of Defense for the United States

 

 

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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 Institute
 

October 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

 

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