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From an Ocean of Peace to a Sea of Friends

Iskander Rehman June 13, 2013 Brookings Institution

Although New Delhi has long recognized the importance of the Indian Ocean, it has only recently begun to display the underpinnings of a true maritime geostrategy.
Op-Ed

Shallow Nations, Deep Waters

Iskander Rehman May 31, 2013 Diplomat

For relatively small coastal states such as Pakistan and Israel, the quest for maritime depth has given birth to naval nuclear force structures with the potential to undermine stability during a crisis.
Op-Ed

Prague as the Nonproliferation Pivot

C. Raja Mohan May 3, 2013 Washington Quarterly

The United States should focus on building a stable balance of power to best curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
Article

China’s Leadership Opportunity in Afghanistan

Raffaello Pantucci April 2, 2013 中文

As NATO prepares to pull out of Afghanistan in 2014, China has an opportunity to assert some leadership in helping steer Afghanistan in a more positive direction.
Op-Ed

Arc of Crisis 2.0?

Iskander Rehman March 7, 2013 National Interest

One of the defining geopolitical narratives of this past half-decade has been the emergence of the Indo-Pacific as the maritime epicenter of global activity. In reality, however, the sudden recognition of the Indian Ocean’s centrality is anything but a new phenomenon.
Op-Ed

Russian Policy on India and South Asia

Petr Topychkanov February 27, 2013 Moscow Defense Brief

The Russian government should transition to a comprehensive and overarching strategy in South Asia.
Op-Ed

Beijing's Nukes

C. Raja Mohan February 13, 2013 Indian Express

This is a good moment for India to actively intervene in the global nuclear debate, articulate its priorities, and seek to promote a nuclear consensus among the major powers.
Other Publications

Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia

Toby Dalton January 30, 2013 Stimson Center

India and Pakistan need more than incremental steps toward peace and stability in South Asia—they must also make symbolic leaps.
Op-Ed

Doubting Delhi

C. Raja Mohan January 8, 2013 Indian Express

In the face of mounting international skepticism, India must take real steps to pursue strategic partnerships with the United States and other nations.
Other Publications

The Non-Unitary Model And Deterrence Stability In South Asia

George Perkovich November 13, 2012 Stimson Center

Deterrence stability is a better framework for conceptualizing and redressing the nuclear challenge in South Asia than focusing on preventing "loose nukes" and nuclear terrorism.

Book

Do Unto Others: Toward a Defensible Nuclear Doctrine

George Perkovich April 1, 2013

President Barack Obama should articulate a narrowed framework for the legitimate use of nuclear weapons that the United States believes would be defensible for others to follow as long as nuclear weapons remain.
Report

Crux of Asia: China, India, and the Emerging Global Order

Sean Mirski, Ashley J. Tellis January 10, 2013

A close examination of Chinese and Indian perspectives reveals stark Sino-Indian differences on many of today’s most pressing international issues.
Book

The China–India Nuclear Crossroads

Lora Saalman September 25, 2012 Washington

Leading Chinese and Indian experts examine the political, military, and technical factors that affect Sino-Indian nuclear relations, providing a comprehensive framework through which China and India can pursue enhanced cooperation.
Paper

Understanding the Arms "Race" in South Asia

Toby Dalton , Jaclyn Tandler September 13, 2012

India and Pakistan are entangled in a long-standing security competition, but they are chasing vastly different goals—and certainly aren't locked in an arms race.
Paper

India and Europe in a Multipolar World

Bernd von Muenchow-Pohl May 10, 2012

While the relationship between the European Union and India has a great deal of potential, it has underperformed. To revitalize it, both sides need to move from dialogue to joint action on a regional or multilateral level.
Policy Outlook

Keeping NATO Relevant

Jamie Shea April 19, 2012

A slimmed down NATO could do a better job of harmonizing transatlantic positions in crisis situations, be the hub of multinational, high-end military operations, and develop expertise and capabilities to deal with new threats such as cyber attacks.
Policy Outlook

Preventing WMD Proliferation: Myths and Realities of Strategic Trade Controls

Togzhan Kassenova January 25, 2012

Given that products that rely on the same technologies and materials as weapons of mass destruction are everywhere, the challenge for states is to ensure that trade in dual-use goods and technologies does not contribute to WMD proliferation.
Report

The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group

Mark Hibbs December 13, 2011

The Nuclear Suppliers Group faces a host of challenges ranging from questions about its credibility and future membership to its relationship to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other multilateral arrangements.
Policy Outlook

A Criteria-Based Approach to Nuclear Cooperation With Pakistan

Toby Dalton , Mark Hibbs , George Perkovich June 22, 2011 中文

The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan provides Beijing with an opportunity to pause and contemplate conditioning its nuclear cooperation with Pakistan on improvements in nuclear safety and security.
Report

Toward Realistic U.S.–India Relations

George Perkovich October 25, 2010

Near-term expectations for a partnership between the United States and India too often overlook how the interests, policies, and diplomatic style of the two countries sometimes diverge.

TV/Radio Broadcast

Securing 'Loose Nukes'

Deepti Choubey, Toby Dalton , Matthew Rojansky March 29, 2012 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Different regional actors had different agendas and priorities for the recent Seoul Nuclear Security Summit.
TV/Radio Broadcast

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nonproliferation

George Perkovich July 10, 2011 BloggingHeads TV

The realization that both the United States and the Soviet Union shared an interest in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons led to a 1968 agreement that existing nuclear weapons states would work toward nuclear zero if other states agreed not to develop nuclear weapons.
TV/Radio Broadcast

Three Dimensionality in Chinese Views on India and Space

Lora Saalman February 4, 2011 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

China’s perception of India’s military modernization and space capabilities has evolved over recent years, and growing bilateral strains demonstrate the need for collaborative measures to reduce tensions and clarify national policies.
TV/Radio Broadcast

The Asia Questions

Ashley J. Tellis November 16, 2009 KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio

The global economic crisis, the growing instability in Pakistan, and the Afghanistan War present several challenges to U.S. foreign policy in Asia.
TV/Radio Broadcast

Worldwise: Russian Relations

Dimitri Simes, James Collins October 12, 2009 Bloggingheads.tv

Russia and the United States are not likely to come to agreement on the best way to approach Iran’s nuclear ambitions any time soon. This issue is likely to be at the top of Secretary Clinton’s agenda during her time in Moscow.
TV/Radio Broadcast

U.S., India Advance Nuclear Trade Deal

Ashley J. Tellis July 9, 2008 NPR's Morning Edition

Behind the scenes at the G-8 summit, U.S. and Indian officials appear to be moving forward on an agreement that would lift the U.S. ban on nuclear trade with India and allow it to assist India’s civilian nuclear program. Ashley Tellis discusses the details of the deal on NPR’s Morning Edition and notes that it is unlikely to make India a closer U.S. ally.

Event

Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out

Zia Mian, Pervez Hoodbhoy, George Perkovich March 5, 2013 Washington, DC

The nuclear landscape in South Asia is dynamic, a complex mixture of politics, technology, and emotion. Analysis of these issues is often overshadowed by partisanship and hyperbole.
Event Panel

The Stability of Deterrence in South Asia

Neil Joeck, Iskander Rehman , George Perkovich January 31, 2013

Despite the appearance of improved relations, the possibility of war in South Asia remains very real.
Event

Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb

Peter Lavoy, Feroz Khan, George Perkovich November 15, 2012 Washington, D.C.

The story of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons development remains in dispute, with a rich literature of colorful and differing accounts.
Event

India-China Relations: The Need for Confidence Building Measures

Monika Chansoria, Toby Dalton , Frederic Grare October 9, 2012 Washington, D.C.

2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Sino-Indian border war, yet the present regional and bilateral conditions are still far from congenial.
Event

The China-India Nuclear Crossroads

Li Bin , Lora Saalman , Ashley J. Tellis, Wang Ting, Gaurav Kampani October 2, 2012 Washington, D.C.

As China and India’s nuclear and conventional capabilities evolve, there is a growing need to establish an open dialogue to overcome misperceptions and opacity surrounding each country’s nuclear posture.
Event

The A.Q. Khan Network and its Fourth Customer

Joshua Pollack, George Perkovich January 23, 2012 Washington, DC

While it has been known since early 2004 that the illicit proliferation network headed by A.Q. Khan of Pakistan supplied the nuclear programs of Iran, North Korea, and Libya, certain questions have not yet been resolved.
Event

Understanding Sino-Indian Nuclear Dynamics

Toby Dalton , Lora Saalman , Ashley J. Tellis July 28, 2011 Washington, DC

India’s rise as a global power poses new challenges to China’s interests in its near-abroad. Relations between Delhi and Beijing have improved on the basis of shared economic interests, but strategic uncertainties remain.
Event

The Nuclear Chain: U.S.-China, China-India, India-Pakistan

Zhang Xinying, Li Deshun, Lora Saalman, Lin Yunzhi, Ma Jie, Li Hui July 10, 2011 Beijing

Despite the increasing multilateralism of nuclear dynamics, analyses often remain confined to the bilateral or trilateral level. Nowhere is this more evident than in discussions of strategic stability.
Event

China and India’s Nuclear Energy Policy

Cheng Ruisheng, Dipankar Banerjee, Zhang Li, Gu Zhongmao, V.S. Arunachalam, Lora Saalman, Fan Jishe, Rajesh Rajagopalan, Li Hong, R. Rajaraman, Zhou Zhiwei, Zou Yunhua, Swaran Singh June 3, 2011 Beijing

China and India have vast energy demands and civil nuclear programs. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan, nuclear safety and security will play a major role in both countries’ nuclear evolution and cooperation in the years to come.
Event

China and India’s Nuclear Posture and Practice

Li Bin , Paul Haenle, Yang Yi, Lora Saalman, Srikanth Kondapalli, P.K. Singh, Pan Zhenqiang, Arun Prakash, Yao Yunzhu, Rajeswari Rajagopalan, C. Bhaskar June 2, 2011 Beijing

China and India possess a number of similarities in nuclear posture. Their advancing missile and missile defense programs, as well as their nuclear modernization programs, have strong implications for strategic stability.

Other Publications

From an Ocean of Peace to a Sea of Friends

Iskander Rehman June 13, 2013 Brookings Institution

Although New Delhi has long recognized the importance of the Indian Ocean, it has only recently begun to display the underpinnings of a true maritime geostrategy.
Op-Ed

Shallow Nations, Deep Waters

Iskander Rehman May 31, 2013 Diplomat

For relatively small coastal states such as Pakistan and Israel, the quest for maritime depth has given birth to naval nuclear force structures with the potential to undermine stability during a crisis.
Op-Ed

Prague as the Nonproliferation Pivot

C. Raja Mohan May 3, 2013 Washington Quarterly

The United States should focus on building a stable balance of power to best curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
Article

China’s Leadership Opportunity in Afghanistan

Raffaello Pantucci April 2, 2013 中文

As NATO prepares to pull out of Afghanistan in 2014, China has an opportunity to assert some leadership in helping steer Afghanistan in a more positive direction.
Book

Do Unto Others: Toward a Defensible Nuclear Doctrine

George Perkovich April 1, 2013

President Barack Obama should articulate a narrowed framework for the legitimate use of nuclear weapons that the United States believes would be defensible for others to follow as long as nuclear weapons remain.
Op-Ed

Arc of Crisis 2.0?

Iskander Rehman March 7, 2013 National Interest

One of the defining geopolitical narratives of this past half-decade has been the emergence of the Indo-Pacific as the maritime epicenter of global activity. In reality, however, the sudden recognition of the Indian Ocean’s centrality is anything but a new phenomenon.
Event

Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out

Zia Mian, Pervez Hoodbhoy, George Perkovich March 5, 2013 Washington, DC

The nuclear landscape in South Asia is dynamic, a complex mixture of politics, technology, and emotion. Analysis of these issues is often overshadowed by partisanship and hyperbole.
Op-Ed

Russian Policy on India and South Asia

Petr Topychkanov February 27, 2013 Moscow Defense Brief

The Russian government should transition to a comprehensive and overarching strategy in South Asia.
Op-Ed

Beijing's Nukes

C. Raja Mohan February 13, 2013 Indian Express

This is a good moment for India to actively intervene in the global nuclear debate, articulate its priorities, and seek to promote a nuclear consensus among the major powers.
Other Publications

Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia

Toby Dalton January 30, 2013 Stimson Center

India and Pakistan need more than incremental steps toward peace and stability in South Asia—they must also make symbolic leaps.

James M. Acton

Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Acton is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in nonproliferation, deterrence, and disarmament.

Muthiah Alagappa

Nonresident Senior Associate
Asia Program

Alagappa is the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in international studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research focuses primarily on Asian security, the political legitimacy of governments, civil society and political change, and the political role of the military in Asia.

Alexei Arbatov

Scholar in Residence
Nonproliferation Program
Moscow Center

Arbatov, a former member of the State Duma, is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.

Shahram Chubin

Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Chubin, who is based in Geneva, focuses his research on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.

Toby Dalton

Deputy Director
Nuclear Policy Program

Dalton is the deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his research focuses on cooperative nuclear security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia.

Pierre Goldschmidt

Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment.

Mark Hibbs

Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Hibbs is a Berlin-based senior associate in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. Before joining Carnegie, for over twenty years he was an editor and correspondent for nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Week and NuclearFuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Togzhan Kassenova

Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Kassenova is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow.

Tomoko Kurokawa

Nonresident Scholar
Nuclear Policy Program

Kurokawa is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program.

Stefan Lehne

Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe

Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states.

Ariel (Eli) Levite

Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

Li Bin

Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program

Li is a senior associate working jointly in the Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews

President

Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

C. Raja Mohan

Nonresident Senior Associate
South Asia Program

Mohan is a nonresident senior associate in Carnegie’s South Asia Program, where his research focuses on international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

George Perkovich

Vice President for Studies

Perkovich’s research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.

Iskander Rehman

Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Rehman is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research focuses on security and crisis stability in Asia, specifically the geopolitical ramifications of naval nuclearization in the Indian Ocean.

Matthew Rojansky

Deputy Director
Russia and Eurasia Program

Rojansky, formerly executive director of the Partnership for a Secure America, is an expert on U.S. and Russian national security and nuclear-weapon policies.

Lora Saalman

Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Saalman is a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment whose research focuses on Chinese nuclear-weapon and nonproliferation policies and Sino-Indian strategic relations.

Karim Sadjadpour

Senior Associate
Middle East Program

Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.

James L. Schoff

Senior Associate
Asia Program

Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. His research focuses on U.S.-Japanese relations and regional engagement, Japanese politics and security, and the private sector’s role in Japanese policymaking.

Paul Schulte

Nonresident Senior Associate
Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe

Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

Michael Swaine

Senior Associate
Asia Program

Swaine is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies.

Ashley J. Tellis

Senior Associate
South Asia Program

Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

Petr Topychkanov

Associate
Nonproliferation Program
Moscow Center

Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program.

Dmitri Trenin

Director
Moscow Center

Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

Sinan Ülgen

Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe

Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues.

Frederic Wehrey

Senior Associate
Middle East Program

Wehrey’s research focuses on political reform and security issues in the Arab Gulf states, Libya, and U.S. policy in the Middle East more broadly. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.

Nicholas Wright

Associate
Nuclear Policy Program

Wright is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research draws on his background in neuroscience to explore political decisionmaking in economics and nuclear security.