BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2008
War, Peace and Hegemony in a Globalized World:The Changing Balance of Power in the Twenty-First Century
This book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order.
Department of Defense
January 2008
Defense Management Challenges in the Post-Bush Era
By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities
Dr. Ashton Carter discusses the resource management challenges facing American defense leaders in the coming decade.
December 30, 2007
"Revolution and Counter Revolution: The Israeli Supreme Court from the 1980's onward, 1980–2004"
By Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
Ehud Eiran reviews the changes in the Israeli Supereme court since the 1980's and places them in the broader institutional, historical, and cultural contexts in this essay.
December 30, 2007
Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present
By Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz
An anthology of the most important documents on the domestic and foreign policy of the modern state of Israel, in relation to the rest of the Middle East.
November 14, 2007
"Afterword: Election '08, Smart Power '09"
By Richard Armitage and Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"We believe that the United States must become a smarter power by reinvesting in the global good — providing things people and governments in all quarters of the world want but cannot attain in the absence of U.S. leadership. Providing for the global good helps America reconcile its overwhelming power with the rest of the world's interests, values, and aspirations. It is not charity. It is effective foreign policy."
November 2007
"Peace Process"
By Boaz Atzili, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2006-2008
"A peace process is a series of persistent diplomatic and political initiatives to negotiate a resolution to a protracted conflict between political entities. The term was first used consistently during the 1970s to describe the efforts to negotiate peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Its use has spread since, both geographically and across social categories...."
November 2007
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
The second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition.
October 2007
Global Fissile Materials Report 2007
Over the past six decades, our understanding of the nuclear danger has expanded from the threat posed by the vast nuclear arsenals created by the superpowers in the Cold War to encompass the proliferation
of nuclear weapons to additional states and now also to terrorist groups. To reduce this danger, it is essential to secure and to sharply reduce all stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the key materials in nuclear weapons, and to limit any further production.
The mission of the IPFM is to advance the technical basis for cooperative international policy initiatives to achieve these goals.
October 2007
"Disposition of Excess Highly Enriched Uranium"
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and Anatoli Diakov
This chapter describes the progress of the Russian and U.S. HEU disposition programs and how they could be expanded and accelerated. It also provides a brief update on the progress of the international programs to clean out and dispose of civilian HEU. The quantities of HEU involved are much smaller than those in the weapons programs but civilian sites are typically much less secure than military ones. Cleaning them out may therefore contribute more to reducing the overall danger of nuclear theft.
