This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds-including historical, political, and moral. But, Brad Roberts argues, it has not so far been informed by the experience of the United States since the Cold War in trying to adapt deterrence to a changed world, and to create the conditions that would allow further significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy and posture. Drawing on the author's experience in the making and implementation of U.S. policy in the Obama administration, this book examines that real world experience and finds important lessons for the disarmament enterprise. Central conclusions of the work are that other nuclear-armed states are not prepared to join the United States in making reductions, and that unilateral steps by the United States to disarm further would be harmful to its interests and those of its allies. The book ultimately argues in favor of patience and persistence in the implementation of a balanced approach to nuclear strategy that encompasses political efforts to reduce nuclear dangers along with military efforts to deter them.

This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds-including historical, political, and moral. But, Brad Roberts argues, it has not so far been informed by the experience of the United States since the Cold War in trying to adapt deterrence to a changed world, and to create the conditions that would allow further significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy and posture. Drawing on the author's experience in the making and implementation of U.S. policy in the Obama administration, this book examines that real world experience and finds important lessons for the disarmament enterprise. Central conclusions of the work are that other nuclear-armed states are not prepared to join the United States in making reductions, and that unilateral steps by the United States to disarm further would be harmful to its interests and those of its allies. The book ultimately argues in favor of patience and persistence in the implementation of a balanced approach to nuclear strategy that encompasses political efforts to reduce nuclear dangers along with military efforts to deter them.

This timely reader focuses on the broad foreign policy agenda that is emerging in the 1990s. Traditional as well as new policy issues are considered in light of the recent and far-reaching changes that are occurring abroad. The 23 articles selected from The Washington Quarterly address such important concerns as the United States in a new era, transformed alliances, regional policies, updated policy instruments, a more complex agenda, and the question of U.S. leadership. Brad Roberts is a Research Fellow in International Security Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Contents Starting at Zero: U.S. Foreign Policy for the 1990s, Robert Hunter * The Crisis of Leninism and the U.S. Response, Robert Scalapino * The Emerging European Security Order, Hans Binnendijk * Germany, Japan, and the False Glare of War, Dan Hamilton and James Clad * The Japan-U.S. Bilateral Relationship: Its Role in the Global Economy, Raymond Vernon * East Central Europe: Democracy in Retreat? Jan Zielonka * Who Killed the Third World? Richard Bissell * Regional Order in the 1990s: Challenge of the Middle East, Richard Haass * Southern Asia After the Cold War, Rodney Jones * In Search of a Latin America Policy, William Perry * After the Cold War: U.S. Interests in SubSaharan Africa, David Newsom * Can Arms Control Survive Peace? James Goodby * U.S. Intelligence in an Age of Uncertainty, Paula Scalingi * Foreign Aid for a New World Order, John Sewell * Public Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War Era, Paul Blackburn * The Security Challenges of Global Environmental Change, Ian Rowland The Future of the International Trading System, Peter Ludlow * The Geopolitical Implications of a Global Capital Shortage, Penelope HartlandThurberg * Global Demographic Trends into the Year 2010, Gregory D. Foster * Democracy, Conflict, and Development in the Third World, Robert L. Rothstein * Democracy and World Order, Brad Roberts * The Quest for Bipartisanship: A New Beginning for a New World Order, Jay Winik * Congress and Foreign Policy, Robert Pastor * Morality and Foreign Policy in America's Third Century, George Weigel * The Comeback of Liberal Internationalism, Richard N. Gardner