Isbn: 9781584870869 - beyond nunn-lugar: curbing the next wave of weapons proliferation threats from russia (3 Ergebnisse)

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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. No DJ issued. Presumed first edition/first printing. Glued binding. xii, 263, [1] p. Illustrations. Endnotes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Henry D. Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policymakers, scholars, and the media. He teaches as an adjunct professor at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. and at the University of Utah and has an appointment as Senior Fellow for Nuclear Security Studies at the University of California at San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. From 1989 to 1993, Sokolski served as the Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, for which he received the Secretary of Defense's Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Prior to this, he worked in the Secretary of Defense's Office of Net Assessment on strategic weapons proliferation issues. Originally commissioned by the NPEC as part of a study on the future of U.S. -Russian nonproliferation cooperation. It is different from other studies of U.S. -Russian cooperation because it relies on competitive strategies, which detail how best to pit one's strengths against a competitor's weaknesses in a series of moves and countermoves. The goal is to devise strategies that force one's competitor to spend more time and resources shoring up his weaknesses than in taking offensive action. Originally devised as a business management tool and subsequently used by the Pentagon to guide its military planning against the Soviet Union, the analytical approach based on competitive strategies requires analysts to evaluate long-term trends, 10 to 20 years out. Rather than beginning with one's own aims and strategies, however, competitive strategies demands that analysts first understand the objectives, strengths, and weaknesses of competitors and other key parties. A key objective of competitive strategies is to detail how best to pit one's strengths against a competitor's enduring weaknesses in a series of moves and countermoves. The goal is to devise strategies that force one's competitor to spend more time and resources shoring up his weaknesses than in taking offensive action. The working group also made several recommendations. One set had to do with how best to account for Russian nuclear weapons materials and to help pay for reducing the threats they and other Russian strategic weapons activities present. Discussion of this set of recommendations, which focused on allowing Russia to earn money storing U.S.-origin spent fuel from East Asia and Europe in exchange for better data on its nuclear inventory and the use of profits to help pay for important Nunn-Lugar programs, also can be found in Chapter 1. In making these recommendations, the working group benefited from the analyses of Army War College researcher Dr. Stephen Blank ('The Foundations of Russian Strategic Power and Capabilities,' Chapter 2); of Heritage Foundation's Russian Studies Director Dr. Ariel Cohen ('Russian Rule and the Regional Military Industrial Complexes,' Chapter 3); and of the Natural Resource Defense Council's Dr. Thomas Cochran ('New Metrics for Denuclearization,' Chapter 5). Finally, the working group made a set of recommendations regarding the next generation of Russian strategic weapons workers. This set of recommendations, which focused on increasing the quantity and quality of Russian and Western student exchanges, turned heavily on the analysis found in Chapter 6 by Professor Mark Kramer of Harvard University ('Demilitarizing Russian Weapons Scientists: The Challenge'); in Chapter 7 by Centra Technologies' Matthew Partan ('Defense Conversion: How Far Can Russia Expand Small and Medium Enterprises?'); and Chapter 8 by this book's coeditor and NPEC's Wohlstetter Fellow, Thomas Riisager ('Turning the Next Generation of Russians Away from Weapons Work'). None of these chapters makes for breezy readin.…