EASTERN EUROPE
September 2006
The Fog of Peace and War Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty
Book
By Talbot C. Imlay and Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy
This volume sets out to examine and analyse how governments and military organizations planned for an uncertain and potentially threatening future during four different peacetime periods spanning from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of the Second World War.
June 2006
Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations
Report
By Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project and Steven Cook
Council on Foreign Relations publication on the U.S.-Turkey relationship
April 30, 2006
Acquiescense, Attack, and a Nuclear Iran
Op-Ed, Miami Herald
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
The emerging U.S.-Iran confrontation is a slow motion Cuban Missile Crisis in which events are moving, seemingly inexorably, toward a showdown at which President Bush will be forced to choose between acquiescence in a nuclear Iran and a military attack to prevent that outcome.
Winter 2005-06
"Experts Work to Put Energy Security on the Global Fast Track"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
When explosions tore open the main pipeline carrying gas from Russia to neighboring Georgia during extreme sub-zero weather in late January, Georgian officials blamed Russia and Russia blamed Islamic militants. Whatever the cause, the effect was severe disruption of every aspect of Georgian life and heightening of international concerns about the multiple aspects of energy security. The incident occurred on the heels of Russia's closure of gas pipelines to Ukraine over a disagreement on pricing, a move that limited gas to much of continental Europe.
December 2005
"Until the Sun Grows Cold: Persisting Nuclear Dangers in a Complacent World"
Book Chapter
By Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Presented as a Plenary Lecture at the 55th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs "60 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
22-27 July 2005, Hiroshima, Japan.
March 16, 2005
"For Our Benefit, for Our Values"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Magill Magazine, Ireland's Leading Political and Cultural Monthly
By Thomas J. Wright, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2007
Thomas Wright argues that only America can give the world the leadership it needs.
Winter 2004/05
"The Perils of Counterinsurgency: Russia's War in Chechnya"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 29
By Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer examines the tactics used by Chechen guerrillas and the responses of Russian military and security forces.
Summer 2004
Timing Is Almost Everything: Obstructionist Leadership, Cypriot Style
Journal Article, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, issue 2, volume 28
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
April 8, 2004
Cyprus Must Not Miss this Chance to Reunify
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Discusses the negotiations in 2004 to reunify Cyprus.
September 3, 2002
"Keeping Nukes Out of Terrorist Hands"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Anthony Wier, Former Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2002-2007 and 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
"...There is no one person anywhere in the government with the full-time job of leading and coordinating efforts to keep nuclear weapons — or other weapons of mass destruction — out of terrorist hands. With no single leader, there is also no integrated plan or overarching strategy that would allow these programs to work together efficiently, close the gaps in our nation's response, and eliminate overlap and duplication. We have a great fleet, but no admiral steering its course...."
