In Fall 2012 U.S. Foreign Policy Professor Sharon Weiner published her latest book, Our Own Worst Enemy?: Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise. The book explores U.S. efforts to prevent former Soviet nuclear experts from selling their knowledge on the open market after the end of the Cold War. Weiner outlines how these efforts were not as effective as planned, largely due to the organizational interests of the U.S. bureaucracies involved. Cindy Williams of the Security Studies Program at MIT is echoes the strong reviews the book has received when she writes: "Our Own Worst Enemy? is a must-read for scholars, policymakers, and other readers with an interest in how government decisions get made and why it has been so hard to control the spread of knowledge about nuclear weapons."

Professor Gordon Adams:

A New Way Forward: Rebalancing Security Assistance Programs and Authorities, (with Rebecca Williams), Washington, DC: Stimson Center, March, 2011

"The Office of Management and Budget: The President's Policy Tool," in Roger Z. George and Harvey Rishikof (eds.), The National Security Enterprise: Negotiating the Labyrinth, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2011, pp.55-78

"A Leaner and Meaner Defense: How to Cut the Pentagon's Budget While Improving its Performance." Foreign Affairs, January/February 2011.

Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for its Global Role and Safety at Home. (With C. Williams.) Routledge Press, 2009.

A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future: Fixing the Crisis of Diplomatic Readiness, with Rick Nygard, et al., Washington, DC: Stimson Center and American Academy of Diplomacy, October 2008. 

Testimony on "The Role of Civilian and Military Agencies in the Advancement of America’s Diplomatic and Development Objectives," for the House Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, March 5, 2009.

Professor Philip Brenner:

"The Missile Crisis Fifty Years Later: What We Should Have Learned," Pensamiento Propio 34 (July-Dec), 2011.

“David and Gulliver: Fifty Years of Competing Metaphors in the Cuban-U.S. Relationship,” Diplomacy and Statecraft (Fall 2009).

A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution. (Co-edited with M. Jimenez, J. Kirk, and W. LeoGrande.) Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

 

Professor Shoon Murray:

“McClellan Right: Press Too Deferential,” Foreign Policy In Focus, June 6, 2008.

"Tough Talk, Public Predispositions, and Military Action: Reassessing the Rally-'Round-the-Flag-Phenomenon." in Approaches, Levels and Methods of Analysis in International Politics. Edited by H. Starr. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

"Private Polls and Presidential Policymaking," Public Opinion Quarterly, Winter 2006.

"Variations in White House Polling Operations: Carter to Clinton," Public Opinion Quarterly, 2002.

Professor Robert Pastor:

The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future. Oxford University Press, 2011.

'The Future of North America: Replacing a Bad Neighbor Policy," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008.

"U.S-Mexico Relations," Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, April 26, 2006.

Not Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua. Westview Press, 2002.

Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New. Institute for International Economics, 2001.

Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean. Westview Press, 2001.

 

Ambassador Anthony Quainton: 

"Refocusing America's Message," in America's Dialogue with the World. (Edited by W. Kiehl.) Public Diplomacy Council, 2007.

"Diplomacy: Still Our First Line of Defense," America, January 20, 2003.

 

Professor Jordon Tama:

"Congress is Already Post-Partisan: Agreement Across the Aisle on U.S. Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2013. With Joshua Busby and William Inboden, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Jonathan Monten, University of Oklahoma.

"The Power and Limitations of Commissions: The Iraq Study Group, Bush, Obama, and Congress," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 1 (March 2011)

Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

"Debt Commission's Fate Now in President's Hands," The Hill, January 26, 2010.

"Intelligent Design," Foreign Policy, January 11, 2010.

"Can the Government Commission National Security and Budgetary Reform?" Budget Insight, December 1, 2009.

“What’s Worth Fighting For? A Progressive View of the Use of Force,” with Benjamin Rhodes, Truman National Security Project Backgrounder, July 6, 2007.

“Commission Impossible?” TheAtlantic.com, December 6, 2006.

A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress, with Lee Hamilton, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002.

 

Professor Sharon Weiner:

Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise. MIT Press, 2011.

"Organizational Interest, Nuclear Weapons Scientists, and Nonproliferation," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 124, No. 4 (Winter 2009-10).

“Looking Out, Looking In: Competing Organizational Interests & the Proliferation of Soviet WMD Expertise,” Daedalus, Spring 2009.

“Reconsidering Cooperative Threat Reduction: Russian Nuclear Weapons Scientists and Non-Proliferation,” Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3 (December 2008).

 

Professor Guy Ziv:

"Simple vs. Complex Learning Revisited: Israeli Prime Ministers and the Question of a Palestinian State," Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 9, Issue 2 (April 2013): 203-222.

"Cognitive Structure and Foreign Policy Change: Israel's Decision to Talk to the PLO," International Relations, Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2011): 426-454.

Readings in U.S. Foreign Policy, Revised First Edition (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2011).

"Shimon Peres and the French-Israeli Alliance, 1954-1959," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2010): 406-429.

"To Disclose or Not to Disclose: The Impact of Nuclear Ambiguity on Israeli Security," Israel Studies Forum, Volume 22, Issue 2 (Winter 2007): 76-94.