US PRIMACY
Fall 2001
"Power and Resolve in U.S. China Policy"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 26
By Peter Hays Gries and Thomas Christensen
In our correspondence section, Peter Hays Gries challenges several points in Thomas Christensen's spring 2001 article, including Christensen's contention that by relying on asymmetric strategies, China may pose problems for the United States without needing to reach military parity. Christensen replies.
Summer 2001
"National Missile Defense and the Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 26
By Charles Glaser, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1982-1985; Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security and Steve Fetter, Former Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
As the debate on a U.S. national missile defense intensifies, the decision about whether the United States should develop an NMD system seems to be giving way to questions over the type of system to be deployed and its scope: For example, should the United States pursue NMD against Russia or China? What are the possible security benefits and costs of limited NMD? What can the United States do to counter the international political fallout of limited NMD?
Summer 2001
"International Security at Twenty-five: From One World to Another"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 26
By Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Though the end of the Cold War raised questions in some minds about the status of the field and the survival of IS, the journal has flourished over the last decade. A substantially new agenda has emerged, one that raises fundamental questions about America’s role in the world, the character of great power relations, and the feasibility and desirability of various possible post–Cold War international orders.
Winter 2001/02
"Beyond bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 26
By Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"The terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon triggered the most rapid and dramatic change in the history of U.S. foreign policy."
Winter 2000/01
"Whether to "Strangle the Baby in the Cradle": The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 25
By William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson
Based on an exhaustive study of newly declassified documents, the authors report that the Kennedy administration embarked on a huge intelligence effort that included U-2 flights, satellite reconnaissance, and even talks with the Soviet Union on joint action. By the time of China's first nuclear test on October 16, 1964, however, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, and his advisers had decided against direct confrontation with China, having concluded that not only was a nuclear China a threat the United States could live with, but that a confrontation with Beijing on the eve of a presidential election might prove politically unwise.
January/February 2001
Keeping America's Military Edge
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 1, volume 80
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Dr. Ashton B. Carter in Foreign Affairs.
Fall 2000
"Why China Cannot Conquer Taiwan"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 25
Growing tensions between Taipei and Beijing have led many to call for a more formal U.S. commitment to defend Taiwan. The author contends that even without direct U.S. military involvement, China cannot conquer Taiwan, a situation that is likely to hold for at least the next decade.
Winter 1999-2000
Adapting US Defence to Future Needs
Journal Article, Survival, issue 4, volume 41
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Article by Dr. Ashton B. Carter in Survival
Fall 1999
"Is Anybody Still a Realist?"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 24
By Andrew Moravcsik, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1986-1988 and Jeffrey W. Legro, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1987-1989
Realism, according to the authors, "is in trouble." They base this observation on their analysis of recent scholarship by neoclassical and defensive realists who, in an effort to address anomalies found in realist theory, have instead undermined the theoretical core of realism itself.
Summer 1999
"The Stability of a Unipolar World"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 24
By William Wohlforth, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Some have defined U.S. preponderance as "a unipolar moment"; others have suggested that the current structure is "uni-multipolar." Regardless of the characterization, the conventional wisdom maintains that unipolarity is unstable and conflict prone, and thus unlikely to prevail over the long term. In our lead article, the author challenges this logic.
