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| AE World PoliticsPrefaceCorrelation GuideTopic GuideInternet References | |
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| The International System and Changing World Order of the Twenty-First Century Unit Overview | |
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| The Age of Nonpolarity: What Will Follow U.S. Dominance? | |
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| Foreign Affairs,May/June 2008 Theprinciple characteristic of the twenty-first-century international system is “nonpolarity:a world dominated not by one, two, or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of power | |
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| This represents a tectonic shift from the past.” | |
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| China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great-Power Politics? | |
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| The Washington Quarterly,Summer 2004 Globalization has become a lens through which Beijing’s grand strategy is filtered.For Chinese strategic thinkers, globalization-as manifested in transnational forces, international institutions, and a great need formultilateralism-is a means to “democratize” the U.S. hegemonic orderand to minimize unilateralist power | |
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| India’s Path to Greatness | |
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| The Wilson Quarterly,Summer 2006 India is emerging as an important strategic partner of the United States | |
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| Potentially, India may be one of the dominant future world powers, along with the United States and China.How welland whetherIndia manages its rise to power-along with relationshipswith other rising and status quo powers-could well determine the future ofthe whole region | |
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| Lulu’s Brazil: A Rising Power, but Going Where? | |
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| Current History,February 2008 Emerging powers like Brazil will play central roles in the balance of power dynamics of major global challenges such as climate change and nuclear proliferation | |
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| While Brazil’s President Lulu and the Workers Party government may be viewed as corrupt and ineffective at home | |
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| Brazil’sforeign policy is widely regarded as a great success story. . .and apotential bellwetherfor theglobal strategies of other emerging powers | |
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| The Power of Green | |
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| TheNew York Times Magazine,April 15, 2007 America can regain its international stature by taking the lead in alternative energy and environmentalism.Such a shift includes electing the first Green President and launching a bi-partisan massive push, much like Eisenhower’s interstate highway initiative or FDR’s New Deal, to develop a multi-prong effort to develop alternative energy sources | |
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| Friedman advocates implementing both free-market strategies, high governmental standards and consumption taxes | |
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| Managing Interstate Conflicts and the Proliferation of Weapons Unit Overview | |
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| Alliances, Balance of Power and the Use of Force | |
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| War in Georgia, Jitters All Around | |
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| Current History,October 2008 Russia’s military intervention in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia was Russia’s First military attack since the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 | |
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| Moscow’s actions came as a surprise and raises questions about Russia’s future plans in Europe | |
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| The invasion has mobilized international forces that will be difficult to contain.A new alliance among the Baltic states, Poland, and Ukraine promises to be a powerful force for action within the EU and NATO | |
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| The Long March to Be a Superpower,The Economist,August 4, 2007 | |
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| ThePeople’s Liberation Army is investingheavily to giveChina the military muscle to match its economic power | |
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| Butcan itbegin torival America?” | |
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| Israeli Military Calculations towards Iran | |
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| Military Technology,MILTECH January 2007 Israel shares the worries of Western countries about Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, but has unique concerns as well | |
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| Three-quarters of Israel’s population is concentrated “on a narrow strip of coastline from Ashkelon to Haifa | |
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| ”This demographic fact makes Israel “extremely vulnerable to nuclear strikes | |
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| Israel’s presumed second-strike capability might severely damage its attacker, but there would be no Israeli state left to take satisfaction.” While a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be difficult,“Israel has reshaped its air force for deep strike missionsof this kind.” | |
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| Proliferation of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Technology | |
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| Revving up the Cooperative Nonproliferation Engine | |
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| Nonproliferation Review,Vol. 15, No. 2, July 2008 The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) processis an“engine of Nonproliferation cooperation and expertisethat can be applied to many situations around the world | |
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| ” One of the architects, Senator Lugar discussesnew opportunities for partnershipsthat the United States should pursue to prevent the proliferation for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons | |
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| Pakistan: It’s Deacute;jagrave; Vu All over Again | |
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| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,May/June 2004 Leonard Weiss reviewshow Pakistan lied, stole, and conned its way to becoming anuclear weapons power | |
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| Now, thefather of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb program, A.Q.Khan, is doing the same as a nuclear broker | |
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| Weiss questions what the United States can do about the A.Q. Khan network, now that Pakistan is a major United States ally | |
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| Evolving Bioweapon Threats Require New Countermeasures | |
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| The Chronicle of Higher Education,October 6, 2006 Past, covert biowarfare activities in Iraq and South Africaas well as currentcivilian biotechnology research and development trends illustrate why control strategies will fail | |
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| Today, it is impossible to control the equipment, supplies, and knowledge needed to develop sophisticated or naturally occurring biological agents such as biological weapons | |
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| The time has come to designpublic policies that will promote new transparency norms | |
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| Foreign Policy Decision Making Unit Overview | |
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| Strategy and the Search for Peace | |
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| The Futurist,November/December2006 Much about the future is unpredictable, butforeign policy and military planners need strategic objectives to plan for the future | |
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| “Strategy is a philosophy of global conduct,a collective set of assumptions and beliefs that underlie our interpretation of the world and approach to dealing with it.” | |
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| It is alsoabout managing percepti | |