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Parameters Autumn 2006 Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
Parameters Summer 2004 P. W. Singer |
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture In the fight against terrorism, are we deterring more terrorists than are being trained for the future? Are we spending so much money trying to capture them, that we're really getting behind? |
Reason November 2003 Tim Cavanaugh |
Talking With Terrorists Jessica Stern's new book reports from the front lines of the War on Terror. |
Parameters Spring 2007 Dale C. Eikmeier |
Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism If we are to know our enemy in the war on terrorism we must first recognize that regardless of the vintage or variety of militant Islam it is the "ideology" of the group or sect that serves as its center of gravity. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Shawn Brimley |
Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
Reason October 2002 Ted Carpenter |
Fixing Foreign Policy How the U.S. should wage the war on terror |
Parameters Spring 2004 Matthew J. Morgan |
The Origins of the New Terrorism A history of terrorism and where it's headed. |
Parameters Summer 2008 Jeffrey Record |
Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work. |
Reason January 2003 Mueller & Lindsey |
Should We Invade Iraq? A debate |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
Parameters Summer 2004 |
Editor's Shelf Authors examine the relationship between the military and the society it serves. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gawdat Bahgat |
Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East It is time that those responsible for crafting the policies and strategies for the region understand that US and Iranian interests are not by definition mutually exclusive. |
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Stan Crock |
Back To The Cold War? Rogue nations like Iran and North Korea are amassing a nuclear arsenal. What should Washington do? |
National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Military Officials Warn Al Qaeda Determined To Attack With WMD Most attacks probably would be small-scale, incorporating improvised delivery systems and easily produced chemicals, toxins or radiological substances. |
Salon.com September 26, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Islam's flawed spokesmen Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against terrorist groups... |
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Erin McCarthy |
Director Lucy Walker Takes on Nuclear Weapons in Countdown to Zero In Countdown to Zero, Walker aims to show the world that nuclear weapons are an even bigger threat now than they were in the Cold War. |
Reason October 2006 Walker & Gillespie |
The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Daniel S. Roper |
Global Counterinsurgency: Strategic Clarity for the Long War Though policy initiatives since September 11, 2001 have positively influenced certain agencies in their efforts to secure America, some steps have actually limited the nation's effectiveness in countering the threats it faces. |
Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back? |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Robert M. Cassidy |
Terrorism and Insurgency Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives is a collection of essays that provide insight into the challenges that make this perennial and irregular war exceedingly difficult. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 Chris Zambelis |
The Strategic Implications of Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Middle East Promoting democracy in the Middle East will mark a positive shift in American foreign policy if and when Washington decides to back up its rhetoric with action. |
Salon.com October 24, 2002 Robert Scheer |
How to defeat the Axis of Evil The United States has more powerful weapons than planes and tanks: Trade, aid and Hollywood. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
Parameters November 2004 Philip Seib |
The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations" "For the first time in history, global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational." As the balance of power among civilizations shifts, the relative influence of the West is declining. |
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
Mutually assured dysfunction President Clinton's nuclear missile defense plan will spur a new arms race, a report by top intelligence agencies predicts. |
Reason June 2005 Stephen J. Lyons |
The Fog of War How can we tell if we're winning the War on Terror? Book reviews: Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror, by Richard Miniter... Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security---An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State, by Matthew Brzezinski... |
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 |
Review Essays Joseph C. Myers, The Quranic Concept of War... George H. Quester, Asia's Nuclear Dilemma... Larry M. Wortzel, Resolving China and Taiwan's Differences... |
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Stan Crock |
Why Iran Is Giving The West The Willies The Iranians on July 31 announced they would resume building the centrifuges that can enrich uranium to weapons-grade strength. What should, and can, the West do about it? |
Parameters Spring 2005 Christopher Henzel |
The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy If American strategists fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. |
Scientific American December 26, 2005 Luis Miguel Ariza |
Virtual Jihad The Internet as the ideal terrorism recruiting tool. |
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons |
United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals. |
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum |
Fighting A New Cold War The U.S. and Europe must commit to a global offensive to defeat terrorism akin to the decades-long battle against communism |
Reason June 2003 Jesse Walker |
What Next for U.S. Foreign Policy? Power, stability, and the post-Iraq world order: interviews with three men with very different ideas about the emerging world system. |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Smith |
A New Threat for Investors Worrying news from London about the Middle East could rattle markets. |
Salon.com September 25, 2001 David Rieff |
There is no alternative to war Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him... |
InternetNews December 4, 2007 |
Al Qaeda-Linked Web Sites Proliferating A researcher found that more than 5,600 Al Qaeda-linked Web sites have sprouted up in the past few years and more than 900 are added each year. |
Wired April 2002 Bruce Sterling |
Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes... |
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 John Rossant |
How Will Europe Cope? Putting security front and center will call for unprecedented cooperation |
Salon.com January 2, 2003 Robert Scheer |
Bush's illogical foreign policy The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine. |
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson |
When It Comes to The Battle of Ideas, The U.S. Has No General On a day to day basis, who is responsible for information operations for the United States government? |
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Robert Scheer |
The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action." |
Wired December 2001 John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt |
Fighting The Network War Conventional military power stands little chance against a band of swarming 14th-century terrorists, according to the authors, RAND analysts who wrote the book on "netwar." Here's their five-point plan to tear apart the terror network... |
Mother Jones May/Jun 2002 Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
Salon.com October 18, 2001 M. A. Muqtedar Khan |
A memo to American Muslims It's time for us to search our souls. How can the message of Muhammad become a source of horror and fear? How can Islam inspire thousands of youth to dedicate their lives to killing others? |
Reason October 2006 David Weigel |
It Can't Happen Here The fantasy worlds of War on Terror novels: If these are the first drips in a flood of wartime fantasies, we can count on many more years of paranoia. We should hope instead that these books become something the authors never intended: classic War on Terror kitsch. |