Robert S Litwak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5768466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Litwak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Litwak |
| SIGNATURE | LITWAK R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recalibrating Deterrence to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose
Journal Article How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose Get access How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battleby Gideon Rose. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2010. 432pp. $27.00. Robert S. Litwak Robert S. Litwak Woodrow Wilson Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 126, Issue 4, Winter 2011, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2…
Living with Ambiguity: Nuclear Deals with Iran and North Korea
Between the poles of nuclear-weapons acquisition and transparent disarmament lies a third option: cultivating ambiguity about capabilities. The current crises with Iran and North Korea are playing out against the backdrop of the contrasting nonproliferation precedents set in 2003 - in Iraq, through a change of regime, and, in Libya, through change within a regime. Washington has sent mixed messages to Tehran and Pyongyang whether the US objective…
Debating Iran's nuclear aspirations
External pressure is a necessary but insufficient strategy to ensure that Iran is complying with its nonproliferation commitments. A complementary effort is needed to influence nuclear politics within Iran by generating a real debate among the Iranian public
Non-proliferation and the Dilemmas of Regime Change
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert S. LitwakRobert S. Litwak is Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He is the author of Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and served as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council staff in 1995–96.
Non-proliferation and the Dilemmas of Regime Change
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert S. LitwakRobert S. Litwak is Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He is the author of Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and served as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council staff in 1995–96
The new calculus of pre-emption
The End of Dual Containment: Iraq, Iran and Smart Sanctions
The following is an edited transcript of a conference sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Middle East Policy Council and the Stanley Foundation. The meeting was held on June 20, 2001, in the Library of Congress with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr. and Mary Jane Deeb moderating
Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War
Henry Kissinger's Ambiguous Legacy
On 12 June 1969, Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon's national security adviser, met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin for a wide-ranging discussion of superpower relations that touched on Vietnam, the Middle East, and arms control. In his long report to the Politburo on this so-called back channel conversation, Dobrynin concluded with “several words about Kissinger”: Observing the work of Nixon and his main foreign policy advisers (a…
The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security, 1984-87
Soviet activism in the Third World
Strategic Defenses and Soviet-American Relations
This book presents papers on ballistic missile defense. Topics considered include the historical aspects of US strategic concepts and programs, Soviet perspectives on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), national security, international cooperation, nuclear proliferation, arms control and SDI, the technical feasibility of the SDI, foreign policy, and US and Soviet views on prospects for a cooperative transition in strategic defense
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Journal Article Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969–1976. By Robert S. Litwak. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. viii + 232 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95.) Get access Dan Caldwell Dan Caldwell Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Page 198, https…
Security in the Persian Gulf
Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War
Debating Iran's nuclear aspirations
External pressure is a necessary but insufficient strategy to ensure that Iran is complying with its nonproliferation commitments. A complementary effort is needed to influence nuclear politics within Iran by generating a real debate among the Iranian public
The new calculus of pre-emption
Living with Ambiguity: Nuclear Deals with Iran and North Korea
Between the poles of nuclear-weapons acquisition and transparent disarmament lies a third option: cultivating ambiguity about capabilities. The current crises with Iran and North Korea are playing out against the backdrop of the contrasting nonproliferation precedents set in 2003 - in Iraq, through a change of regime, and, in Libya, through change within a regime. Washington has sent mixed messages to Tehran and Pyongyang whether the US objective…
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Non-proliferation and the Dilemmas of Regime Change
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert S. LitwakRobert S. Litwak is Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He is the author of Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and served as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council staff in 1995–96
The End of Dual Containment: Iraq, Iran and Smart Sanctions
The following is an edited transcript of a conference sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Middle East Policy Council and the Stanley Foundation. The meeting was held on June 20, 2001, in the Library of Congress with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr. and Mary Jane Deeb moderating
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Journal Article Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969–1976. By Robert S. Litwak. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. viii + 232 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95.) Get access Dan Caldwell Dan Caldwell Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Page 198, https…
Security in the Persian Gulf
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Journal Article Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969–1976. By Robert S. Litwak. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. viii + 232 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95.) Get access Dan Caldwell Dan Caldwell Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Page 198, https…
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976
Soviet activism in the Third World
Strategic Defenses and Soviet-American Relations
This book presents papers on ballistic missile defense. Topics considered include the historical aspects of US strategic concepts and programs, Soviet perspectives on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), national security, international cooperation, nuclear proliferation, arms control and SDI, the technical feasibility of the SDI, foreign policy, and US and Soviet views on prospects for a cooperative transition in strategic defense
The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security, 1984-87
Henry Kissinger's Ambiguous Legacy
On 12 June 1969, Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon's national security adviser, met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin for a wide-ranging discussion of superpower relations that touched on Vietnam, the Middle East, and arms control. In his long report to the Politburo on this so-called back channel conversation, Dobrynin concluded with “several words about Kissinger”: Observing the work of Nixon and his main foreign policy advisers (a…
Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War
The End of Dual Containment: Iraq, Iran and Smart Sanctions
The following is an edited transcript of a conference sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Middle East Policy Council and the Stanley Foundation. The meeting was held on June 20, 2001, in the Library of Congress with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr. and Mary Jane Deeb moderating
The new calculus of pre-emption
Debating Iran's nuclear aspirations
External pressure is a necessary but insufficient strategy to ensure that Iran is complying with its nonproliferation commitments. A complementary effort is needed to influence nuclear politics within Iran by generating a real debate among the Iranian public
Non-proliferation and the Dilemmas of Regime Change
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert S. LitwakRobert S. Litwak is Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He is the author of Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and served as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council staff in 1995–96.
Non-proliferation and the Dilemmas of Regime Change
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert S. LitwakRobert S. Litwak is Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. He is the author of Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and served as Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council staff in 1995–96
Living with Ambiguity: Nuclear Deals with Iran and North Korea
Between the poles of nuclear-weapons acquisition and transparent disarmament lies a third option: cultivating ambiguity about capabilities. The current crises with Iran and North Korea are playing out against the backdrop of the contrasting nonproliferation precedents set in 2003 - in Iraq, through a change of regime, and, in Libya, through change within a regime. Washington has sent mixed messages to Tehran and Pyongyang whether the US objective…
How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose
Journal Article How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose Get access How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battleby Gideon Rose. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2010. 432pp. $27.00. Robert S. Litwak Robert S. Litwak Woodrow Wilson Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 126, Issue 4, Winter 2011, Pages 681–682, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2…
Recalibrating Deterrence to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
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