Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
March 2000
172 Pages
Brief Synopsis
This book provides insights into the competitive strategies methodology. Andrew Marshall notes that policymakers and analysts can benefit by using an analytical tool that stimulates their thinking about strategy in terms of long-term competition between nations with conflicting values, policies, and objectives.
The book also demonstrates the strengths of the competitive strategies approach as an instrument for examining U.S. policy. The method focuses on policies regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In shaping the international environment in the next millennium, no other national security issue seems as complex or important. The imperative here is to look to competitive strategies to assist in asking critical questions and thinking both broadly, as well as more precisely, about alternatives for pitting U.S. strengths against opponents weaknesses in global, regional or interstate competitions. Part I suggests that the competitive strategies approach has value for both the practitioner and the scholar. Part II uses the framework to examine and evaluate U.S. nonproliferation and counterproliferation policies formed in the final years of the 20th century. In Part III, the competitive strategies method is used to analyze a regional case, that of Iran.
Content
Foreword
Preface
Andrew Marshall
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Strategy, The Missing Link in Our Fight against Proliferation
Henry D. Sokolski
Part I
How Might Competitive Strategies Help against Proliferation?
1. Competitive Strategies: An Approach against Proliferation
David J. Andre
2. Competitive Strategies as a Teaching Tool
Bernard I. Finel
Part II
How Competitive Are U.S. Efforts against Proliferation?
3. Nonproliferation: Strategies for Winning, Losing, and Coping
Henry D. Sokolski
4. Nuclear Nonproliferation: Where Has the United StatesWon—and Why?
Zachary S. Davis
Mitchell B. Reiss
5. Counterproliferation: Shy of Winning
Thomas G. Mahnken
Part III
Iran: Two Competitive Strategies
6. Fighting Proliferation through Democracy: A Competitive Strategies Approach toward Iran
Kenneth R. Timmerman
7. Dual Containment as an Effective Competitive Strategy
Patrick Clawson
About the Authors
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