U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS

 “East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS by Michael O’Hanlon  Missile defense has emerged as probably the most important defense issue in the 2000 presidential campaign, and one of the most difficult issues in current U.S. diplomacy.  It may also be […]

The Second Collaborative Workshop on East Asia Regional Security Futures: Participants

“Partnership for Peace: Building Long-term Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia”  The Second Collaborative Workshop on East Asia Regional Security Futures The Center for American Studies, Fudan University Shanghai, China, March 3-4, 2001 PARTICIPANTS United States David FINKELSTEIN, The CNA Corporation Bonnie GLASER, Independent Consultant on Asian Affairs Derek MITCHELL, CSIS, International Security Program Brad ROBERTS, […]

NPP Weekly FLASH Update 14 July, 2000

Missile Defense 1. US Missile Defense Test Speaking about the failed test of a US missile interceptor this last weekend, US Defense Department officials said that the malfunction occurred during the routine procedure of launching a payload, not in the much more innovative technology required to knock down a warhead. Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish, Director […]

IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR EAST ASIA: U.S. VIEW

  “Partnership for Peace: Building Long-term Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia”  The Second Collaborative Workshop on East Asia Regional Security Futures IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW BUSH ADMINISTRATION  FOR EAST ASIA: U.S. VIEWby Derek Mitchell ABSTRACT Given a lengthy political transition process and a skeletal foreign policy team now in place in the United States, Asians […]

IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW U.S. ADMINISTRATION FOR EAST ASIA: A CHINESE VIEW

  “Partnership for Peace: Building Long-term Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia”  The Second Collaborative Workshop on East Asia Regional Security Futures IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW U.S. ADMINISTRATION FOR EAST ASIA:  A CHINESE VIEW by Shen Dingli ABSTRACT Since George W. Bush became the new U.S. President, the U.S. foreign policy toward East Asia has seemed to […]

TMD, US-JAPAN RELATIONS, AND EAST ASIAN SECURITY

   “East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000  TMD, US-JAPAN RELATIONS, AND EAST ASIAN SECURITY(1) by DUAN Hong There has been a certain kind of cooperation between Japan and the United States on ballistic missile defense since the late 1980s, but that cooperation has […]

NMD, TMD, and Nuclear Arms Control

 “East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 NMD, TMD, and Nuclear Arms Control by UMEMOTO Tetsuya Abstract The assumption that large-scale missile defense is incompatible with nuclear arms control has been premised on an intensely hostile relationship between the hypothetical attacker and the defender, […]

NMD AND ARMS CONTROL DEBATES AT THE 2000 NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE

 “East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000  NMD AND ARMS CONTROL DEBATES  AT THE 2000 NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE by Mitsuru KUROSAWA Abstract The issue of the NMD (National Missile Defense)/ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Treaty was one of the most controversial one at the 2000 NPT […]

NPP Weekly Flash Update 7 June, 2000

Nonproliferation and Arms Control 1. US-Russian Arms Control Talks Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Bill Clinton failed to narrow their difference over US proposals for a missile defense system. They did sign agreements to share information about nuclear missile launches aimed at either nation and to scuttle 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium […]

NPP Weekly FLASH Update 22 February, 2000

Arms Control 1. US Arms Control Policy Avis Bohlen, assistant secretary of state for arms control, told a dinner meeting of Women in International Security February 15 that efforts at building support for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and work toward a presidential decision on deploying a National Missile Defense (NMD) system rank highest […]