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Uncertainty is the Sea Where All Swim
Article from The Washington Post on learning to live with terrorism which refers to work undertaken at CDI’s Terrorism Project and features analysis by CDI Research Analyst Mark Burgess.
Feb. 15, 2003
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Conduct Of War:
Choice Need Not be Between
Old Rules or No Rules at All
Tomas Valasek
Director, Center for Defense Information
Dec. 6, 2002
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Letter by CDI's Tomas Valasek posted on the Financial Times website on December 6, 2002.
Concerns report that the sorry legal situation of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay may require changes to the Geneva Convention ("Perpetual limbo", December 4). But the recent transatlantic spat over the terrorist suspects is only the latest example of the inadequacy of existing laws of war in the era of new threats such as terrorism. What is needed is not a piecemeal change but rather a new set of rules governing the use of force; one that takes into account phenomena such as failed states and international terrorism. It must allow for effective action against new threats while preserving the overall legal architecture and averting a collapse of international norms on war.
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Moscow News Interviews Nikolai Zlobin, CDI Senior Fellow and
Editor in Chief, Washington Profile
March 13, 2002
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Dr. Nikolai Zlobin discusses the U.S. war on terrorism and U.S.-Russian relations with Moscow News, the major Russian daily. In the March 13 interview, Dr. Zlobin notes the Bush administration's moves to distance itself from international organizations and treaties as part of an effort to maintain greater flexibility in its conduct of foreign and security policy.
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A Call To Disarm
What made the events of Sept. 11 all the more shocking was the realization that the United States' unparalleled military capabilities — above all, its thousands of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, built up over a half-century at a cost of trillions of dollars and touted as a cornerstone of national security — proved useless, either as a deterrent or as weapons of war.
IEEE Spectrum Online Feature Article featuring analysis by Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President.
Jan. 22, 2002
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Shaking Off the Cold War, At Last
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago, critics both inside and outside the U.S. military have called for a radical rethinking of the way it prepares for war. Only of late, though, has the momentum for such a military transformation started to build. To find out what a transformed U.S. military might look like, IEEE Spectrum spoke to Rear Adm.(Ret.) Stephen H. Baker, CDI Senior Fellow.
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Is U.S. Arming Future Adversaries Through Sales, Military Training?
As the war on terrorism moves into its next phase, the United States continues to build upon an international coalition. As part of this effort, the administration of President George W. Bush has expressed a willingness to provide weapons to countries that in the past have been criticized for human rights violations, lack of democracy and even support of terrorism. Analysis by CDI Senior Analyst Rachel Stohl, from Defense News, Dec. 4, 2001.
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Citing Terrorism, Groups Urge End of Nukes
Terrorist use of nuclear material is likely unless nations take action to reduce the threat
of nuclear conflict and rid the world of nuclear weapons, disarmament and medical experts said.... From the IPS Daily Journal, Nov. 16, 2001, in PDF format (requires Acrobat Reader).
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Washington ProFile Interview: Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The following is a Nov. 8 interview conducted by Washington ProFile, the Russian-language news service, of Anatol Lieven, senior associate for foreign and security policy at the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace. Lieven specializes in Russia and Eurasia. A former journalist with The Times of London, he covered Afghanistan during the final years of Soviet occupation and the first years of the country's long-running civil war. Lieven talked with Washington ProFile's Editor-in-Chief Nikolai Zlobin about the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan.
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Opinion
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Another war, another round of landmines?
RADM Eugene Carroll, U.S.N (Ret.), former CDI Vice President, and Rachel Stohl, CDI Senior Analyst
Article first appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 18, 2003
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Who is Behind the Groups?
Nov. 1, 2002
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Vek article by Dr. Nikolai Zlobin, CDI Senior Fellow and Director, Russian and Asian Programs, on terrorist groups and the Moscow Hostage Crisis
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Nuclear Time Warp
Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President
April 8, 2002
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President George W. Bush's new Nuclear Posture Review harks back to the stone age, or at least to the 1950s, when America's most beautiful minds struggled to devise a strategy to deal with the original rogue state — the Soviet Union. The latest exercise to devise a nuclear strategy to neutralize threats of weapons of mass destruction wielded by the 2002-class of rogue states such as Iraq and North Korea is proof that time folds over on itself, and that higher-order nuclear intelligence is as elusive as table-top fusion. This repetition of history isn't funny, but it is dangerous.
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A Half-Democratic Russia Will Always be a Half-Ally to the United States
Nikolai Zlobin, Senior Fellow at the Center for Defense Information, Director of the International Information Agency Washington ProFile, Washington
Michael McFaul, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, San Francisco
First appeared in Obshchaya Gazeta, Nov. 15-21, 2001 #46
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The Moment of Truth for the Kremlin
Dr. Michael McFaul, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace,
Professor at Stanford University,
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Dr. Nikolai Zlobin, CDI Senior Fellow,
Executive Editor of Demokratizatsiya,
The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization
First appeared in Obshaya Gazeta, Oct. 11-18, 2001 #41.
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