Recent Publications

Tacit Acceptance and Watchful Eyes: Beijing’s Views about the U.S.-ROK Alliance
January 24, 1997 — Author: Dr Fei-Ling Wang In October 1995, the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute and the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University, in partnership with the Defense Nuclear Agency and The Korea Society, hosted in Seoul, Korea, an international workshop on the U.S.-ROK Alliance. For nearly a half century, the security... MORE

The Chemical Weapons Convention: Strategic Implications for the United States
January 8, 1997 — Author: Mr Frederick J Vogel On January 13, 1993, in Paris, 130 countries signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to ban the entire class of chemical weapons. Many of those nations have since ratified it. In this country, debate continues on the strategic implications of the convention, as drafted, and whether it is in the U.S. national... MORE

The Peace process, Phase One: Past Accomplishments, Future Concerns
January 3, 1997 — Author: Dr Stephen C Pelletiere As a result of a conference on the peace process in the Middle East, co-hosted by the Strategic Studies Institute and North Georgia College in March 1996, the authors discussed the developing crisis in that area. They have analyzed three crucial areas of relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors--Jordan, Syria,... MORE

Force, Statecraft and German Unity: The Struggle to Adapt Institutions and Practices
December 1, 1996 — Author: Dr Thomas-Durell Young One can make two general observations concerning Bonn's ongoing attempt to adapt institutions and practices. First, confusion in German policy making is clearly a manifestation of officials largely navigating in a little-known policy milieu. Realpolitik, let alone Machtpolitik (either as mere terms, let alone as... MORE

Asian Security to the Year 2000
December 1, 1996 — Authors: Prof Marc Jason Gilbert, Prof Paul HB Godwin, Mr Abraham Kim, LTC Dianne L Smith, Dr William J Taylor Jr, Dr Robert J Wirsing, Mr Perry L Wood In January 1996, the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a conference on "Asian Security to the Year 2000."... MORE

The ASEAN Regional Forum: Asian Security without an American Umbrella
December 1, 1996 — Author: Dr Larry M Wortzel U.S. Asian policy today is a curious blend of seemingly firm bilateral commitments and occasionally startling ambiguities. The latter, while preserving American flexibility, run the risk of signaling weakness when friends and potential adversaries probe for clarity of purpose. This American "inscrutability" in Asia is all... MORE

Managing Strains in the Coalition: What to Do About Saddam?
November 1, 1996 — Author: Dr Stephen C Pelletiere For 5 years U.S. policy has managed to steer a coalition of states which share broad interests in regional stability and free trade. Yet below these common interests, the United States has walked a tightrope stretched between competing objectives vis-à-vis Iraq, e.g., undermining Saddam while preserving Iraq as a... MORE

Civil-Military Relations and the Not-Quite Wars of the Present and Future
October 1, 1996 — Author: Dr Vincent Davis Three papers presented at the Patterson School-Strategic Studies Institute Symposium focused on civil-military relations at various levels. West Point professor Don M. Snider maintains that continued pressures on the armed forces—especially the Army—to put aside war-fighting missions in favor of other missions will further... MORE

The Strategist and the Web Revisited: An Updated Guide to Internet Resources
October 1, 1996 — Authors: LTC James Kievit, Dr Steven Metz Every day of the "Information Age" makes more material available via the Internet. Yet simply "surfing the 'Net'," while perhaps enjoyable as recreation, is ill-suited for rapidly locating valid, salient information. This is particularly true for analysts or military professionals seeking to develop... MORE

Ethnic Conflict and European Security: Lessons from the Past and Implications for the Future
October 1, 1996 — Author: Ms Maria Alongi On October 23-25, 1995, coinciding with the Bosnia peace talks being held in Dayton, Ohio, Women in International Security (WIIS), an international, nonpartisan educational program; The Friedrich-Eberet Foundation; the U.S. Institute of Peace; and the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute sponsored a conference,... MORE

Finnish Security and European Security Policy
September 1, 1996 — Author: Dr Stephen J Blank In 1995 Finland joined the European Union (EU). This action culminated several years of a fundamental reorientation of Finnish security policy as Finland moved from the neutrality imposed on it by the Soviet Union to a policy with a priority on European integration through the European Union. Finland, in joining the EU,... MORE

Managing a Changing Relationship: China’s Japan Policy in the 1990s
September 1, 1996 — Author: Prof Robert S Ross In April 1996, the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute held its Seventh Annual Strategy Conference. This year's theme was, "China into the 21st Century: Strategic Partner and…or Peer Competitor." The author of the following monograph, Dr. Robert S. Ross, of Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian... MORE