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European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogue
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-10) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Hersman, Rebecca; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
The project will investigate challenging nuclear issues facing NATO in general, and the P-3 (United States, United Kingdom, and France) in particular, to promote trilateral understanding on nuclear issues, enhance scholarship on the emerging challenges faced by these critical allies, and provide insight to policymakers, experts, and the public about the evolving nature and future of the P-3 partnership. This effort is increasingly important as new obstacles to P-3 unity on nuclear issues emerge from both external challenges and internal barriers to consensus policy positions.
The Strategic Chain: China, India, Pakistan, and the United States
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-05) Einhorn, Robert; Center on Contemporary Conflict; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
Objective: This project will examine the strategic linkages among Pakistan, India, China, and the United States. This chain represents a series of relationships that possess the most active nuclear weapon, missile, and missile defense programs in the world. Pakistan looks to India as its principal threat, and India bases its threat perceptions off both Pakistan and China. China, meanwhile, looks to the United States and India. Foremost, the project seeks to identify policies and measures that could promote strategic stability and reduce incentives for arms buildups within the wider strategic chain. The research will also seek to promote a better understanding of the diverse strategic interconnections among these four nuclear powers and examine to what extent this chain represents an obstacle to strategic restraint.
Projecting the Future World of Illicit Nuclear Trade and Developing Countermeasures
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC); Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
The objective of the project is to produce a monograph evaluating the world of illicit nuclear trade 5-10 years from now. The project will advance this body of knowledge and improve the chances of detecting covert nuclear programs, potentially delaying the development of nuclear programs of proliferant states, and providing more time for counter-WMD activities to succeed.
Baltic States and Poland Track 2 Deterrence and Strategic Stability Dialogue and Study
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-05) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Sanok-Kostro, Stephanie; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
Objective: New questions arise daily concerning overall NATO alliance cohesion and commitment in the face of Russian aggression. Understanding how deterrence and crisis stability operate within conflict and how crisis actions may affect overall strategic stability is vital to efforts to prevent or de-escalate future tensions, particularly in NATO frontline states. CSIS will examine deterrence challenges that face frontline states on NATO’s eastern border with Russia and the implications of military posture and security matters in that geography for overall strategic stability between the United States/NATO and Russia. This project will bring together U.S., Polish, and Baltic experts to review and discuss topics such as forwarddeployed, non-strategic nuclear weapons, “gray zone” conflicts, and the importance of energy and economic markets to crisis stability. This project will provide scholars with new knowledge on emerging deterrence challenges faced in light of the Ukrainian crisis.
2012 U.S. and Brazilian Perspectives on Global and Regional Security
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012-05) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
The dialogue will discuss ways in which to diminish the threat of weapons of mass destruction, promote international non-proliferation, and address regional security in the Americas by informing the decision-making of defense and diplomatic policymakers in both countries. The two-day event will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, and will bring together approximately 15 academics, former military officers, former defense officials, and former diplomats that specialize in international security, US-Brazil relations, global non-proliferation, and nuclear issues.
U.S. Engagement in the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Debate
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-10) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Sagan, Scott; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
This research project seeks to encourage more extensive public understanding of and more effective U.S. engagement in debates about the humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. There is a vibrant international debate about whether the use of a nuclear weapon could ever be legal under international humanitarian law as well as how to mitigate the environmental effects of nuclear weapons production and use. However, the U.S. public is largely unaware of this international debate. Thus, this project will investigate the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons in order to improve the engagement and interactions of the U.S. public and the government with international organizations and movements concerned with the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons.
Scoping Study and Model Development for South Asian Stability Workshop 3.0
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-10) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Khan, Feroz; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
This research project will develop a new model and design a new scenario for conducting a third iteration of the South Asian Stability Workshop. This project will seek new game mechanisms that will allow for greater fidelity in depicting a nuclear-tinged future crisis in South Asia with the potential to draw in China and the United States. This project builds upon the foundations and feedback from previous TTXs conducted by the principle investigator. These previous exercises revealed several disconnects in each country’s strategic rationale; limitations on their understandings of the intentions and capabilities of the other country; their assumptions about escalation control; and, most importantly, their assumptions and visualizations of the roles of international powers in South Asian crises. This crisis simulation exercise model will seek to incorporate best practices for conducting four-team war games and will incorporate regional force trajectories over the next ten years, as well as projected geopolitical trends.
Assessing the Potential of Societal Verification by Means of Social Media in the Areas of Nuclear Disarmament, Nonproliferation, and Nuclear Security
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2013) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC); Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.); Monterey Institute of International Studies
In a tech-savvy world, open source technology could open the door to new methods of verification. It could empower civil society to assist in strengthening the nonproliferation verification regime and increase global public awareness and understanding of the relevance of nuclear proliferation in everyday life. In situations where there is public access or major public policy concern, social media can reinforce nonproliferation, arms control agreements, and norms. By addressing the opportunities and limitations for enhancing international security, the project will develop a new media _roadmap_ for nuclear nonproliferation experts and policymakers to better understand the potential of applying such a rapidly evolving, powerful medium to the issues of nuclear security.
International Biosecurity: Engagement between American and MENA Scientists
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
CSTSP will provide guidance concerning the development of scientific engagement approaches to MENA countries. This will encourage partnerships on bio-surveillance or infectious disease response between the United States and regional scientific stakeholders and address gaps in scientific engagement initiatives in the region across U.S. agencies.
Workshop on the Global Movement and Tracking of Chemical Manufacturing Equipment
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013) Center on Contemporary Conflict; Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC); National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Before Saddam Hussein co-opted pesticide production facilities in Iraq to produce chemical weapons, the world_s inspection and verification regimes were designed to govern large-scale chemical manufacturing facilities located within developed countries. Globalization has reduced the efficacy of the current inspection regimes and opened verification gaps through the proliferation of chemical manufacturing equipment and infrastructure. The project will examine the movement and tracking of chemical manufacturing equipment of dual-use concern. The National Academy of Sciences will focus on current systems, their shortcomings, and the impacts of technology advancements, as well as explore recommendations for future tracking and monitoring operations.