Special Issues/Other

November 2006
What If a Nuclear-Armed State Collapses?
by MICHAEL O'HANLON
"The nuclear danger posed by the potential for state failure in a North Korea or a Pakistan is one of the most menacing facing the international environment."

November 2006
The New Threats Nuclear Amnesia, Nuclear Legitimacy
by JACK MENDELSOHN
"It will be up to the next US administration to remove nuclear arms from the quiver of threat responses and war-fighting scenarios and begin the process of delegitimizing nuclear weapons."

November 2006
The Limits and Liabilities of Missile Defense
by PHILIP E. COYLE
The most effective route in dealing with nuclear and missile proliferation threats may be through creative diplomacy, not military technology."

November 2006
Deterrence or Preemption?
by JEFFREY W. KNOPF
"Given reasonable prospects for successful deterrence and the variety of other policy tools that can be used . . . preemption generally does not appear to be the best choice in dealing with WMD threats."

March 2006
Is Globalization Our Friend? Women’s Allies in the Developing World
by Nandini Deo
"Reforms most closely tied to the globalization of economies, considered separately from domestic neoliberal policies, clearly benefit the most vulnerable women in developing countries."

March 2006
Does Lower Fertility Threaten Feminism?
by LEONARD SCHOPPA
"The ability to opt out of—or at least to postpone well into their 30s—the challenge of working while still having children means few young women today are motivated to demand changes in social policy or even to demand that men do more housework."

March 2006
Digital Scheherazades in the Arab World
by FATEMA MERNISSI
The Arab Gulf's previously all-male ruling elite is investing in female brains as the winning card for information-fueled power.

March 2006
Educating Girls, Unlocking Development
by RUTH LEVINE
"Compelling evidence, accumulated over the past 20 years . . . , has led to an almost universal recognition of the importance of focusing on girls' education as part of broader development policy."

March 2006
Poland Provoked: How Women Artists En-Gender Democracy
by ELZBIETA MATYNIA
"It is women artists who, by entering into an open debate with central elements of the Polish cultural tradition, pose the main questions concerning the nature of democratic citizenship, toleration, and pluralism."

March 2006
From Victims to Saviors? Women, Power, and Corruption
by HUNG-EN SUNG
"Increased female participation in public life is a good and just end, but it does not in itself offer an effective means to achieve clean government."

March 2006
Feminists and Fundamentalists
by KAVITA RAMDAS
"Reassertions of an idealized past and a restored 'women's place' are occurring, from Kabul to Cambridge, at a time when the international community has concurred that women's rights are a global good."

February 2006
Separation Anxiety: Quebec versus Canada, Again
by JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
"In the past year Quebec's separatist movement has revived in dramatic fashion. Polls show that over half of Quebecers would vote for sovereignty if a new referendum were called. . . ."

April 2005
Sixty Years After Hiroshima, A New Nuclear Era
by Thomas Graham Jr.
Ambassador THOMAS GRAHAM JR., senior counsel with Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, is a former US special representative for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament and the author, most recently, of Common Sense on Weapons of Mass Destruction (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004).

April 2005
The Seven Myths of Nuclear Terrorism
by Matthew Bunn and Anthony Wier
"A small but dedicated and resourceful terrorist group could very plausibly design and build at least a crude nuclear bomb. And the danger that they could get the nuclear material needed to do so is very real."

April 2005
Arms Control and American Security
by Michael A. Levi and Michael E. O'Hanlon
"The United States and the world . . . need a new strategy for controlling dangerous technologies in an age of terror."

April 2005
The Last Taboo: Israel's Bomb Revisited
by Avner Cohen
"Is it really possible to redesign and buttress the nonproliferation regime, as the Iranian case requires, while leaving Israel's nuclear capacity an untouched taboo? Is it healthy for Israeli democracy or global security to continue with the path of nuclear opacity?"

April 2005
Nuclear Asia's Challenges
by Dinshaw Mistry
The middle-term challenges of averting a nuclear arms race in Asia are closely linked to the more immediate concern of reversing proliferation in North Korea.

April 2005
The Persian Dilemma: Will Iran Go Nuclear?
by Sanam Vakil
"The Iranians have continued to take advantage of international disunity. Clearly, they hope to use the uproar over their nuclear aspirations to extract as many concessions as possible."

December 2003
Democracy: Terrorism's Uncertain Antidote
by Thomas Carothers
"There is no inherent reason why the Arab world cannot join the global democratic trend. Yet there are very real . . . reasons why the democratization of Arab societies will prove unusually slow, difficult, and conflictive."

December 2003
The Reluctant Nation Builders
by Alan Sorensen
"The largely unilateral, dubiously rationalized, and defiantly prosecuted occupation of Iraq has distracted from the need to develop international consensus and capacity for nation building and other benevolent interventions. What the world needs now . . . is possibly a new multilateral organization or two specialized in peacekeeping and state-building operations."