PREVENTIVE DEFENSE PROJECT PUBLICATIONS
March 17, 2006
Panel: Preventing Acquisition and/or Use of WMD by Hostile State or Non-State Actors
Presentation
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Carter discusses the Bush Administration's failure to propose an adequate strategy for combating WMD in the 2006 QDR.
April 5, 2005
A Failure of Policy, Not Spying
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
The fallacy in the Bush administration's appointment of a commission to study intelligence failures is that there is almost never such a thing as a pure intelligence failure. Intelligence failure is usually linked to policy failure.
July 2002
Preventing Inadvertent War: Problems and Prospects for Sino-American Crisis Management
Paper
PDP paper on Sino-American Crisis Management Procedures, Practices, and Organization
September 2000
Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
Book
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Defense experts explore how the United States can rectify organizational and managerial problems to maximize its military effectiveness.
August 1999
Preventive Diplomacy and Preventive Defense in South Asia: The U.S. Role
Occasional Paper, volume 2
By Warren Christopher, David Hamburg, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
Conference Report on the challenges of preventive diplomacy and preventive defense in South Asia.
February 1999
"Reforming the Department of Defense: The Revolution in Business Affairs"
Occasional Paper, volume 1
By John P. White, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Steven J. Kelman and Michael J. Lippitz, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2003-2004
Conference Report on the "Revolution in Business Affairs" that is improving efficiency at the Department of Defense.
January 1, 1999
"Fulfilling the Promise: Building an Enduring Security Relationship Between Ukraine and NATO"
Occasional Paper, volume 1
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project
Report on April 1998 PDP-sponsored workshop to discuss the future of the relationship between Ukraine and NATO
October 1998
"Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy"
Occasional Paper, volume 1
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, John M. Deutch, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Philip D. Zelikow, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Faculty Affiliate, International Security Program
While the danger of Catastrophic Terrorism is new and grave, there is much that the United States can do to prevent it and to mitigate its consequences if it occurs. The objective of the Catastrophic Terrorism Study Group is to suggest program and policy changes that can be taken by the United States government in the near term, including the reallocation of agency responsibilities, to prepare the nation better for the emerging threat of Catastrophic Terrorism.
July 1998
"Content of U.S. Engagement with China"
Occasional Paper, volume 1
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
This workshop report describes the policies and programs that will give content to the security dimension of engagement and increase the probability that China will emerge as a security partner, rather than an adversary, of the United States in the 21st century.
