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, […]

Agenda

 “East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000   AGENDA Saturday, June 24 Introduction — Project and Workshop Goals Dr. Wade HUNTLEY Hon. Larry SCHEINMANSession 1 — Briefing: U.S. NMD and TMD programs Dr. Michael O’HANLON* Dr. Michael GREEN Dr. David WRIGHT Session 2 — […]

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 […]

THE GLOBAL SULLIVAN PRINCIPLES – February 1, 1999

THE PREAMBLE The objectives of the Global Sullivan Principles are to support economic, social and political justice by companies where they do business; to support human rights and to encourage equal opportunity at all levels of employment, including racial and gender diversity on decision making committees and boards; to train and advance disadvantaged workers for […]

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 […]