2007 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference Panel: Deterrence or Disarmament: The Future of Nuclear Weapons in China, France, and the UK.
2007 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference Panel:Taking Nuclear Disarmament Seriously.Chair: Kåre Aas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway; Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Africa; George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Ashley Tellis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
2007 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference Panel: Implementing International Measures to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Chair: William Potter, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Ambassador Peter Burian, Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the United Nations; Igor Khripunov, University of Georgia; William Tobey, U.S. Department of Energy.
Over the last five years, China has laid the groundwork to become an international power. It has done so not only with high-level diplomacy but also through the tools of soft power: aid, investment, culture and skilled diplomacy. This charm offensive has proved remarkably successful. But as some countries try to model China's success, it may backfire.
Carnegie launched a new policy brief on China’s ASAT by Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis. Jessica T. Mathews, Carnegie president, introduced the panel, which featured Dr. Tellis as the presenter, Dr. Michael D. Swaine, Senior Associate in Carnegie’s China program, and Dr. Peter Hays, Senior Policy Analyst with the Science Applications International Corporation, as discussants.
In a provocative new policy brief, Ashley Tellis challenges the conventional wisdom that China’s antisatellite test (ASAT) was a protest against U.S. space policy, arguing instead that it was part of a loftier strategy to combat U.S. military superiority and one that China will not trade away in any arms-control regime.
Since 2005, when then-Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick urged China to become a “responsible stakeholder,” policymakers have tried to determine what criteria define responsible stake-holding and whether China is meeting them.
As Japan reformulates its foreign policy in the quest to assume a greater leadership role in Asia, it finds it shares an unprecedented convergence in interests, values and strategies with a rising India. The India-Japan relationship can become a key driving force in the emergence of a new security architecture in Asia based on the protection of democratic values and market principles.
China’s soft power policy is fueled by pragmatism. Ideology has a very limited role.
Some issues surrounding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty deserve new attention. The future of verification and transparency is especially fertile ground and demands attention, given the Bush administration’s preference to see START and its verification protocol go out of force at the end of 2009.





























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