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As background to an understanding of possible burdensharing problems in NATO's fifth decade, this report briefly reviews some of the traditional sources of burdensharing disputes within the Alliance.
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Addresses the implications of political developments and prospects in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for NATO crisis planning and management.
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Examines U.S. national space policy and military space policy, focusing on the space control debate. It considers the status of space control-related capabilities, such as the antisatellite (ASAT) and national aerospace plane (NASP) programs.
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This paper discusses various arms control proposals that would have major effects on the security of the Pacific Rim. While an effective arms control agreement between NATO and the Soviet Union in Europe could do much to reduce the security problems ...
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Recent progress in European arms reduction is the result of a unique combination of developments not likely to occur in other regions, including Korea. While the potential for meaningful arms control may not seem very promising in the case of Northea...
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Since the division of the Korean peninsula along ideological lines after World War II and the subsequent Korean War of 1950-1953, the restoration of a Korean national community has been a high priority on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone. This pa...
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Develops a conceptual framework for thinking about future NATO policies. It analyzes, individually and interactively, the major variables that seem likely to shape NATO's role over the period 1990-2005.
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Parents in Indonesia, Pakistan, and the Philippines typically choose to get more education for their sons than for their daughters. Governments need to increase access to schools and establish incentives and subsidies to increase women’s education.
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One, the reserve option, would create additional NATO forces from the pool of unused or underused European reservists. To assess the feasibility of the reserve option, this study examines one technical and two policy issues:...
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In view of the dramatic changes within the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev, NATO faces the challenge of coordinating its defense planning with its diplomatic approaches to the Soviet Union.
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Since the late 1970s, Italian policy toward NATO has been characterized by increasing assertiveness, but this has not threatened the basic national commitment to coalition defense and is unlikely to do so in the future.
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Using a number of scenarios, this Note examines variables likely to affect U.S. NATO policy during the first term of the Bush Administration.
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Assesses future West German attitudes toward NATO and the factors that are likely to shape them into the mid-1990s.
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Discusses the postwar course of Danish and Norwegian security policy, addressing the pattern of constraints at work in these countries' security consensuses.
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Argues for a joint monitoring mechanism that would play a crucial part in formulating and implementing Canadian-U.S. policy in the Arctic.
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This paper discusses Mikhail Gorbachev's "peace offensive" and NATO members' perceptions of and reactions to the Soviets' arms reduction policies as they affect the NATO position on disarmament. The author suggests that Soviet unilateral arms reducti...
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This paper is the text of a presentation at the Crossroads Peace Institute's Peace Weekend, Palos Verdes, California, June 23, 1989. The author reviews the role of nuclear weapons as tools of diplomacy that have prevented a confrontation between the ...
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This paper is based on a presentation made to a conference held October 28-29, 1988, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Arms Control Without Negotiation: Unilateral and Independent Initiatives. It describes and discusses the philosophic roots behind the...
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Explores the reasons that European defense spending is proportionately less than that of the United States, and contrasts the European spending record with their more impressive record in supplying defense resources to the Atlantic Alliance.
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In March 1988, a conference was held in Ebenhausen, West Germany, on Reconstructing NATO Strategy for the 1990s, to discuss the future of Alliance strategy.
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