James R Schlesinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 975612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Schlesinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlesinger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLESINGER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6941-2634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When enough is enough: Terrorism, counterterrorism, and public opinion
How does the public judge counterterrorism policy? Using conjoint analysis, I study the effects of terrorism and counterterrorism engagement on public opinion in a democracy, where public opinion is expected to have a greater influence on policy outcomes in the future. While conjoint analysis is being employed more frequently in terrorism studies, this is the first use of a survey to study the features of counterterrorism policy, as well. I asses…
Terror, Political Risk, and Effect on Foreign Direct Investment
Terrorist attacks have important social, political, and economic effects. One of the effects of terrorism involves the impact on foreign direct investment (FDI). While existing research suggests that terrorism negatively impacts FDI by increasing political risks, it is unclear how the effects of terrorism are conditioned by host country institutions. Political institutions may affect investors’ perceptions of political risk following a terrorist …
Politics, audience costs, and signalling: Britain and the 1863–4 Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Audience costs theory posits that domestic audiences punish political leaders who make foreign threats but fail to follow through, and that anticipation of audience costs gives more accountable leaders greater leverage in crisis bargaining. We argue, contrary to the theory, that leaders are often unaware of audience costs and their impact on crisis bargaining. We emphasise the role of domestic opposition in undermining a foreign threat, note that…
Minimum Deterrence: Examining the Evidence
Preface Executive Summary I. Introduction: Minimum Deterrence II. Minimum Deterrence and U.S. Policy III. Minimum Deterrence: Assumptions, Logic and Conclusions IV. Examining and Testing the Fundamental Assumptions and Logic of Minimum Deterrence V. Summary and Conclusion: How Does Minimum Deterrence Fare Against Available Evidence and What Alternative Guidelines May Be Better? Notes Appendix
Rulers and rascals: The politics of gold in Mongolian Qing history
This article examines the politics of gold mining in the Mongolian cultural region during the Qing period and today. By drawing on archival material and accounts by travellers of the period, the authors situate the current mining boom within its greater historical context. Since the exploration of gold has been surrounded by enduring notions of exclusivity and purity, the article shows how mining for gold has historically been closely related to …
Commentary: The demise of arms control
Nonproliferation and U.S. nuclear policy
The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History
(1993). The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 5-12
Quest for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
WITH THE END of the Cold War, the disintegra tion of the Soviet Union and the shrinkage and transmutation of the Soviet threat, the United States has lost the magnetic north for calibrating its foreign policy. Major decisions taken in recent years, seeming ly firm in execution, rest upon an uncertain direction in underlying policy. The United States has strength to spare in responding to individual challenges, yet it clearly lacks the overall str…
New Instabilities, New Priorities
America at Century's End
Describes modern American society, examines America's domestic and foreign policy, and identifies trends in government
Strategy and Resources
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames R. SchlesingerJames R. Schlesinger is a counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This article was originally delivered as a keynote address to the CSIS National Leadership Forum on June 9, 1986
Reykjavik and Revelations: A Turn of the Tide
Maintaining Global Stability
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames R. SchlesingerJames R. Schlesinger currently serves as senior advisor at CSIS. He formerly served as secretary of defense and secretary of energy
Rhetoric and Realities in the Star Wars Debate
The Eagle and the Bear: Ruminations on Forty Years of Superpower Relations
Crossing the Energy Watershed: Obligations of Public Policy
The continuing repercussions of the energy watershed of the 1970s, coupled with the enormous economic and social costs of the current recession, require an adjustment of both policies and public understanding to the drastically changed energy and economic conditions
ABM Revisited: Promise or Peril
The Strategic Environment, by James R. Schlesinger BMD Technology, by Donald M. Kerr, Guy Barasch and Jack Ruina The Soviet View, by William G. Hyland and Raymond L. Garthoff The Pros and Cons of ABM, by Robert H. Kupperman, Harvey A. Smith, William R. Van Cleave, Adam Yarmolinsky and Glenn A. Kent
American Power and the Survival of the West
Document
The Geopolitics of Energy
The Evolution of American Policy towards the Soviet Union
I t is a special pleasure to be here this evening in Cambridge to deliver the Pollak Lecture. For one who has been part of the Harvard community such an occasion demands reflectionand inspiration. In a way that few other institutions can match, Harvard molds the attitudes and even the character of those whom it welcomes within its gates. Consequently, one remains particularly sensitive to the prevailing sentiments in Cambridge. So the occasional …
Opinion: On Making Too Much of Our Present Discontents
Uses and abuses of analysis: US Senate Memorandum 90th Congress, 2nd Session
Quantitative Analysis and National Security
The long-time neglect of the military establishment by the economics profession at large is now in the process of being rectified. It hardly seems necessary to justify this awakening interest. Since resource allocation is fundamental in military problems, the economist, whose primary interest is the logic of the allocative process, is particularly well-qualified to make a contribution. To be sure, this contribution is purely formal. Economics hel…
Rulers and rascals: The politics of gold in Mongolian Qing history
This article examines the politics of gold mining in the Mongolian cultural region during the Qing period and today. By drawing on archival material and accounts by travellers of the period, the authors situate the current mining boom within its greater historical context. Since the exploration of gold has been surrounded by enduring notions of exclusivity and purity, the article shows how mining for gold has historically been closely related to …
Quest for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
WITH THE END of the Cold War, the disintegra tion of the Soviet Union and the shrinkage and transmutation of the Soviet threat, the United States has lost the magnetic north for calibrating its foreign policy. Major decisions taken in recent years, seeming ly firm in execution, rest upon an uncertain direction in underlying policy. The United States has strength to spare in responding to individual challenges, yet it clearly lacks the overall str…
Quantitative Analysis and National Security
The long-time neglect of the military establishment by the economics profession at large is now in the process of being rectified. It hardly seems necessary to justify this awakening interest. Since resource allocation is fundamental in military problems, the economist, whose primary interest is the logic of the allocative process, is particularly well-qualified to make a contribution. To be sure, this contribution is purely formal. Economics hel…
The Eagle and the Bear: Ruminations on Forty Years of Superpower Relations
United States Fiscal Policy 1945-1959: Its Contribution to Economic Stability, by A. E. Holmans
Politics, audience costs, and signalling: Britain and the 1863–4 Schleswig-Holstein crisis
Audience costs theory posits that domestic audiences punish political leaders who make foreign threats but fail to follow through, and that anticipation of audience costs gives more accountable leaders greater leverage in crisis bargaining. We argue, contrary to the theory, that leaders are often unaware of audience costs and their impact on crisis bargaining. We emphasise the role of domestic opposition in undermining a foreign threat, note that…
The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History
(1993). The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 5-12
New Instabilities, New Priorities
Reykjavik and Revelations: A Turn of the Tide
Rhetoric and Realities in the Star Wars Debate
The Geopolitics of Energy
The Evolution of American Policy towards the Soviet Union
I t is a special pleasure to be here this evening in Cambridge to deliver the Pollak Lecture. For one who has been part of the Harvard community such an occasion demands reflectionand inspiration. In a way that few other institutions can match, Harvard molds the attitudes and even the character of those whom it welcomes within its gates. Consequently, one remains particularly sensitive to the prevailing sentiments in Cambridge. So the occasional …
A Note on the Inflation
The Budget and National Security
Essay| July 01 1960 The Budget and National Security James R. Schlesinger James R. Schlesinger Associate Professor of Economics, University of Virginia James R. Schlesinger was Academic Consultant in Economics at the United States Naval War College in 1957. He is the author of The Political Economy of National Security. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1960) 39 (227): 1–6. https://doi.org/…
Monetary Policy and Its Critics
A Suggested Framework for Monetary-Fiscal Analysis
T HE now orthodox treatment of monetary and fiscal policy is to present the two techniques separately as dissimilar devices for achieving the same general goals. Monetary policy, it is said, influences aggregate expenditures in the private sector indirectly by affecting the cost and availability of credit. Fiscal policy, on the other hand, affects aggregate demand directly by varying government expenditures and/or the tax load on the private sect…
The Sequel to Bills Only
W HEREVER the test of implementation Al is applied to prescriptions for policy based on a priori reasoning, the mortality rate in ideas is bound to be high. Washington, D.C. is notoriously the graveyard of fond hopes and high aspirations. It seems fair to suggest that the conventional fate has overtaken a number of the ambitions in the monetary field announced at the outset of the Kennedy administration. Generally speaking, the President's advise…
United States Fiscal Policy 1945-1959: Its Contribution to Economic Stability, by A. E. Holmans
Emerging Attitudes Toward Fiscal Policy
Quantitative Analysis and National Security
The long-time neglect of the military establishment by the economics profession at large is now in the process of being rectified. It hardly seems necessary to justify this awakening interest. Since resource allocation is fundamental in military problems, the economist, whose primary interest is the logic of the allocative process, is particularly well-qualified to make a contribution. To be sure, this contribution is purely formal. Economics hel…
Uses and abuses of analysis: US Senate Memorandum 90th Congress, 2nd Session
The Evolution of American Policy towards the Soviet Union
I t is a special pleasure to be here this evening in Cambridge to deliver the Pollak Lecture. For one who has been part of the Harvard community such an occasion demands reflectionand inspiration. In a way that few other institutions can match, Harvard molds the attitudes and even the character of those whom it welcomes within its gates. Consequently, one remains particularly sensitive to the prevailing sentiments in Cambridge. So the occasional …
Opinion: On Making Too Much of Our Present Discontents
The Geopolitics of Energy
American Power and the Survival of the West
Document
ABM Revisited: Promise or Peril
The Strategic Environment, by James R. Schlesinger BMD Technology, by Donald M. Kerr, Guy Barasch and Jack Ruina The Soviet View, by William G. Hyland and Raymond L. Garthoff The Pros and Cons of ABM, by Robert H. Kupperman, Harvey A. Smith, William R. Van Cleave, Adam Yarmolinsky and Glenn A. Kent
Crossing the Energy Watershed: Obligations of Public Policy
The continuing repercussions of the energy watershed of the 1970s, coupled with the enormous economic and social costs of the current recession, require an adjustment of both policies and public understanding to the drastically changed energy and economic conditions
Maintaining Global Stability
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames R. SchlesingerJames R. Schlesinger currently serves as senior advisor at CSIS. He formerly served as secretary of defense and secretary of energy
Rhetoric and Realities in the Star Wars Debate
The Eagle and the Bear: Ruminations on Forty Years of Superpower Relations
Reykjavik and Revelations: A Turn of the Tide
Strategy and Resources
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJames R. SchlesingerJames R. Schlesinger is a counselor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This article was originally delivered as a keynote address to the CSIS National Leadership Forum on June 9, 1986
America at Century's End
Describes modern American society, examines America's domestic and foreign policy, and identifies trends in government
New Instabilities, New Priorities
Quest for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
WITH THE END of the Cold War, the disintegra tion of the Soviet Union and the shrinkage and transmutation of the Soviet threat, the United States has lost the magnetic north for calibrating its foreign policy. Major decisions taken in recent years, seeming ly firm in execution, rest upon an uncertain direction in underlying policy. The United States has strength to spare in responding to individual challenges, yet it clearly lacks the overall str…
The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History
(1993). The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on History. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 5-12
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