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Studies in Global Security

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BOOKS
American Academy Studies in Global Security
This series was launched in 2003 by the Committee on International Security Studies and is published by The MIT Press. More information is available here.
	The Minimal Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age By Jeffrey Lewis Order from the Publisher
	Statehood and Security: Georgia after the Rose Revolution Edited by Bruno Coppieters and Robert Legvold Order from the Publisher
	The Russian Military: Power and Policy Edited by Steven E. Miller and Dmitri Trenin Order from the Publisher
	Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine Edited by Robert Legvold and Celeste A. Wallander Order from the Publisher
	Thinking Strategically: The Major Powers, Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian Nexus Edited by Robert Legvold Order from the Publisher For Russian version, click here to download a PDF file. (834 KB)
Other CISS Titles
	The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law Edited by Sarah Sewall and Carl Kaysen (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
	Belarus at the Crossroads Edited by Sherman W. Garnett and Robert Legvold (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999)
	Environment, Scarcity, and Violence Thomas F. Homer-Dixon (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
	Light Weapons and Civil Conflict Edited by Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC., 1999)
	Israeli-Palestinian Security: Issues in the Permanent Status Negotiations Jeffrey Boutwell and Everett Mendelsohn, Principal Authors (Cambridge: AAAS, 1995)
	Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons Edited by Jeffrey Boutwell, Michael T. Klare, Laura W. Reed (Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995)
	Collective Responses to Regional Problems: The Case of Latin America and the Carribean (out of print) Edited by Carl Kaysen, Robert A. Pastor, and Laura W. Reed (Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994)
	Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention (out of print) Edited by Laura W. Reed and Carl Kaysen (Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993)
	Transition to Palestinian Self-Government: Practical Steps Toward Israeli-Palestinan Peace (out of print) Edited by Ann Mosley Lesch, Principal Author (Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992)

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CISS Occasional Papers

CISS has published numerous papers from its study projects and meetings. These papers are distributed to policy makers, scholars, and the interested public at no charge. These papers can be ordered from the Academy here.

Previous Papers

Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence

A Joint Project of CISS and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Toronto.
- "The Case of China"
  Elizabeth Economy, Council on Foreign Relations (1997)
- "The Economic Costs of China's Environmental Degradation"
  Vaclav Smil and Mao Yushi, Project Coordinators (1998)
- "The Case of Indonesia"
  Charles Victor Barber, World Resources Institute (1997)
Peace Operations by the United Nations:
The Case for a Volunteer UN Military Force (1996)

This report by Carl Kaysen and George Rathjens is the product of a CISS study group from the Academy's program on "Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention," which included CISS member general (ret.) Edward Meyer (former chief of staff, US Army) and ambassador Robert Oakley. Through case studies on Somalia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Haiti, Rwanda, and the Congo, the group analyzed the feasibility of developing a dedicated combat force under UN control that could be deployed to areas of conflict early enough to effect a cease-fire and allow time for political negotiations. The working group and report were funded by the Bechtel Foundation and the Ploughshares Fund.
Emerging Issues Series (1989-1995)
- "The Impact of the New Borderlands on the Russian Military"
  by Sherman W. Garnett, Occasional Paper No. 9 (August 1995). 24 pages.
- "The Saladin Syndrome: Lessons from the Gulf War"
  by Ze'ev Schiff and Walid Khalidi, Occasional Paper No. 8 (August 1991). 45 pages.
- "Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: Jerusalem in the Framework of an Israeli-Palestinian Settlement"
  by Naomi Chazan with commentary by Fouad Moughrabi and Rashid I. Khalidi, Occasional Paper No. 7 (March 1991). 39 pages.
- "The Palestinian Right of Return: Two Views"
  by Rashid I. Khalidi and Itamar Rabinovich, Occasional Paper No. 6 (October 1990). 31 pages.
- "Verification and Conventional Arms Reduction"
  by Jürgen Altmann, Péter Déak, Catherine Kelleher, and Vadim Makarevsky, Occasional Paper No. 5 (June 1990). 46 pages.
- "Environmental Change and Violent Conflict"
  by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Occasional Paper No. 4 (June 1990). 47 pages.
- "Middle East Security: Two Views"
  by Ahmad S. Khalidi and Yair Evron, Occasional Paper No. 3 (May 1990). 50 pages.
- "Nuclear Weapons and International Systemic Stability: A Preliminary Methodological Inquiry"
  by John Lewis Gaddis, Occasional Paper No. 2 (January 1990). 27 pages.
- "Global Transformations"
  by James N. Rosenau, Occasional Paper No. 1 (November 1989). 20 pages.
Environmental Change and Acute Conflict (1992-1993)

These papers were prepared for a joint project of the University of Toronto and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The project investigated how environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources might contribute to social strife and conflict in many parts of the world. Through a series of case studies and conferences in 1991-92, the project looked specifically at the links between environmental change and conflict in three areas: water scarcity, population displacement, and the economic repercussions of reduced agricultural and resource productivity.
- "Pressure Points: Environmental Degradation, Migration and Conflict"
  by Astri Suhrke and "Bangladesh and Assam: Land Pressures, Migration and Ethnic Conflict," by Sanjoy Hazarika, Occasional Paper No. 3 (March 1993). 67 pages.
- "Environmental Change as a Source of Conflict and Economic Losses in China"
  by Vaclav Smil and "Imminent Political Conflicts Arising from China's Environmental Crises," by Jack A. Goldstone, Occasional Paper No. 2 (December 1992). 60 pages.
- "Water and Conflict"
  by Peter H. Gleick and "West Bank Water Resources and the Resolution of Conflict in the Middle East," by Miriam R. Lowi, Occasional Paper No. 1 (September 1992). 62 pages.