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NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance, Cato Policy Analysis No. 635

As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 60th birthday, there are mounting signs of trouble within the alliance and reasons to doubt the organization's relevance regarding the fo...
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Cracks in the Foundation: NATO's New Troubles, Cato Policy Analysis No. 608

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is beginning to fracture. Its members, sharing the triumphalism that underpinned U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War, took on burdens that have proved ...
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The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence, Cato Polic

Executive Summary It appears increasingly likely that the Bush administration's diplomatic approach to Iran will fail to prevent Iran from going nuclear and that the United States will have t...
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Iran's Nuclear Program: America's Policy Options, Cato Policy Analysis No. 578

Executive Summary Although it is possible that negotiations between the leading powers in the international community and Iran may produce a settlement to the vexing issue of Iran's nuclear progra...
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Don't Resurrect the Law of the Sea Treaty, Cato Policy Analysis No. 552

Executive Summary For more than 20 years, the United States has refused to become a party to the Law of the Sea Treaty. Advocates of the treaty, a comprehensive measure governing navigationa...
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European Union Defense Policy: An American Perspective, Cato Policy Analysis No.

Executive Summary For almost 50 years, proposals by the European Union to develop a common foreign and security policy for all member states failed. Since the late 1990s, however, the s...
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Mending the U.S.-European Rift over the Middle East, Cato Policy Analysis No. 48

Executive Summary The war in Iraq has created tensions between the United States and some of its leading allies in Europe and exposed a deep diplomatic rift between the traditional tran...
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Casualties of War: Transatlantic Relations and the Future of NATO in the Wake of

Executive Summary The Iraq War represents a turning point in transatlantic relations. Euro-American ties have been ruptured, and never again will be the same. But the growing estrangeme...
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Missile Defense: Defending America or Building Empire?, Cato Foreign Policy Brie

Executive Summary The rationale for missile defense put forward by its advocates is often a "doom and gloom" picture: America and its citizens are defenseless against the threat of ball...
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Is Chinese Military Modernization a Threat to the United States?, Cato Policy An

Executive Summary The ongoing modernization of the Chinese military poses less of a threat to the United States than recent studies by the Pentagon and a congressionally mandated commis...
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Should the United States "Weaponize" Space? Military and Commercial Implications

Executive Summary Control of space is at the crux of the debate about the future of U.S. military space policy. The question is not about militarizing space. Clearly, we have been using...
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Reducing a Common Danger: Improving Russia's Early-Warning System, Cato Policy A

Executive Summary During the past 20 years the world has survived at least four false alerts for nuclear war. Each time, space-based early-warning systems played a major role. In three of the fo...
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Death Knell for NATO? The Bush Administration Confronts the European Security an

Executive Summary One of the first foreign policy challenges President George W. Bush and his foreign policy team must face is the changing nature of the transatlantic relationship. For several ...
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The Rogue State Doctrine and National Missile Defense, Cato Foreign Policy Brief

Executive Summary The Clinton administration underestimated the technological ability of several of the "rogue" states to develop long-range missiles and politicized its intelligence es...
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Are We Prepared for Terrorism Using Weapons of Mass Destruction? Government's Ha

Executive Summary In 1996 the U.S. Congress passed and the president signed the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Act on domestic preparedness for terrorism using weapons of mass destruction. That law directs...
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Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention, Cato F

Executive Summary The 1972 Biological Toxins and Weapons Convention--often called the Biological Weapons Convention, or BWC--requires the signatories to renounce the development, employment, tra...
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Arms Control and Missile Defense: Not Mutually Exclusive, Cato Policy Analysis N

Executive Summary Traditionally, strategic offensive arms control and ballistic missile defense have been viewed as mutually exclusive. During the Cold War, the general belief was that anti-ball...
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Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later, Cato Policy Analysis No. 373

Executive Summary One year after NATO ended its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, the Clinton administration's Kosovo policy is a conspicuous failure. Kosovo is now the scene of a brutal ethn...
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Green Wars: Making Environmental Degradation a National Security Issue Puts Peac

Executive Summary Since the end of the Cold War, a fundamental shift in national security policy has taken place in the United States. No longer restricting itself to such issues as military all...
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Faulty Justifications and Ominous Prospects: NATO's "Victory" in Kosovo, Cato Po

Executive Summary With the withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo, President Clinton triumphantly proclaimed, "We have achieved a victory." Yet the Clinton administration's ill-conceived Kosov...
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