PUBLICATIONS

If you are interested in writing or co-authoring an article or issue brief for the Program, please contact Natalie Goldring. We are especially interested in analyses of security and disarmament issues such as links between chemical and biological weapons and nuclear proliferation, regional perspectives on disarmament prospects, and analysis of ways in which historical proposals may be relevant for current arms control and disarmament efforts.

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Working Papers

Issue Briefs

Recent Articles and Other Publications

Selected Media Cites

Working Papers

ISA 2003 Paper #1: "Keeping the Genie in the Bottle: A Framework for Analysis," prepared for the panel on Arms Control and Disarmament: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 2003
by Dr. Natalie J. Goldring Word

ISA 2003 Paper #2: "Domestic Politics and Nuclear Disarmament Diplomacy: Limits of the Japanese Antinuclear Movement," prepared for the panel on Arms Control and Disarmament: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 2003
by Akira Kurosaki Word

ISA 2003 Paper #3: "The Politics of Japanese Nuclear Disarmament Initiatives: Where Government Policies and Civil Society Converge and Diverge," prepared for the panel on Arms Control and Disarmament: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 2003
by Dr. Anthony DiFilippo Word

ISA 2003 Paper #4: "The Changing Character of War, Moral Beliefs About War, and International Institutions to Prevent War," prepared for the panel on Conditions of Peace, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 2003
by Dr. Randall Forsberg Word

"Global Guide to Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education," paper for the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Nonproliferation Education, March 2002
by Dr. Natalie J. Goldring and Dr. Kathleen Sullivan html Word pdf

• Provides a concise overview of historical and current proposals on this issue.

Working Paper #2: Annotated Bibliography: Disarmament and Related Issues  html pdf
by Christopher J. Fettweis with the assistance of Dr. Natalie J. Goldring and Alex Campbell 

• This extensive list includes primary sources such as treaties and official documents, as well as books and articles on arms control, weapons of mass destruction, and conventional weapons.

Working Paper #3: Introducing De Facto Disarmament: The Disintegration of the Red Army. html pdf
by Christopher J. Fettweis

• This paper explores the possibility that the economic deterioration of the former Soviet Union may present an unprecedented opportunity for progress in international arms control.

Working Paper #4: Amid the Nuclear Quagmire: the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella and the Japanese 'non-Nuclear' Myth html pdf
by Masakatsu Ota

• The extent to which Japan is integrated into U.S. nuclear strategy has never been fully explained to the Japanese people. Japan prides itself on being a "non-nuclear" nation, but this historical analysis of the Japanese relationship with American crisis planners suggests otherwise.

Issue Briefs

Issue Brief Number 1: Dividing the Empire: Collapse of the Red Army html  pdf
by Christopher J. Fettweis

• This case study assesses the extent to which renunciation of nuclear weapons was linked to reductions in conventional weapons in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

Issue Brief Number 2: Will Japan Keep Renouncing Nuclear Weapons in the Coming Century? Lessons from the 1960s Deter the Decision to "Go Nuclear" html  pdf
by Masakatsu Ota

• Since the end of World War II, Japan has developed the scientific capability and economic strength to become an independent nuclear power. But the first nation to be victimized by nuclear weapons is still traumatized by the effects, and this trauma does not seem likely to disappear.

Recent Articles and Other Publications

"Remember the Gulf of Tonkin" Washington Post op-ed, September 22, 2002
by Gar Alperovitz html

"Role of the non-proliferation regime in preventing non-state nuclear proliferation" speech given to IEER Conference Nuclear Dangers and the State of Security Treaties, United Nations, New York, April 9, 2002
by Natalie Goldring html

"Each Warhead Destroyed Adds to U.S. Security" Global Beat Syndicate op-ed, May 27, 2002
by John Spykerman html

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