CIAO DATE: 03/02

US Foreign Policy Agenda

 

Volume 4, Number 2, September 1999

Responding to the Challenge of Proliferation (Download the complete issue in PDF format)

Introduction

Focus


• Strengthening Nonproliferation: Essential to Global Security,  by Samuel R. Berger, National Security Adviser to President Clinton
• The Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Challenges and Responses,  by John D. Holum, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
• Small Arms Use and Proliferation: Strategies for a Global Dilemma,  by Eric David Newsom, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• A Landmine-Safe World by 2010: Not an Idle Dream,  by Ambassador Donald K. Steinberg, Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State for Global Humanitarian Demining and Laurie Zimmerman, Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow
• Adapting the CFE Treaty to New Realities and Challanges,  by Craig Gordon Dunkerley, Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

Commentary


• Weapons of Mass Destruction: The U.S. Experience,  by Lawrence Korb, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
• Arms Control in the 106th Congress,  by Amy F. Woolf, Specialist in National Defense, Congressional Research Service

Regional Issues


• Nunn-Lugar: An Impressive Record on Soviet Nuclear Arms Dismantlement,  by Senator Richard Lugar
• The Costs of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia,  by Peter R. Lavoy, Director of Counterproliferation Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• Preventing the Spread of Dangerous Weapons to Iraq and Iran,  by Bruce O. Riedel, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council

A Guide to Additional Reading


• Responding to the Challenge of Proliferation: Article Alert  (Abstracts of current articles)
• Responding to the Challenge of Proliferation: Bibliography  (Spotlighting other views)
• Responding to the Challenge of Proliferation: Key Internet Sites  (Internet links to resources on related issues)