Naval War College

About: Naval War College is a education organization based out in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: International law & China. The organization has 233 authors who have published 519 publications receiving 6652 citations. The organization is also known as: United States Naval War College & U.S. Naval War College.

The Proliferation Security Initiative: A Global Prohibition Regime in the Making?

Abstract: In October 2003, intelligence, law enforcement, diplomatic and military services from the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany collaborated to track and divert the merchant ship BBC China, which was carrying a shipment of uranium centrifuge parts to Libya for use in Tripoli’s nuclear weapons program. American and British politicians touted the interdiction as a triumph for the newly minted Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), asserting that it had constituted a critical factor impelling Libya to give up its weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD) programs. While the operation clearly kept certain centrifuge parts out of Libyan hands, however, it is less clear whether the interdiction was really the driving force in Libya’s overall decision that Western pronouncements claimed. Indeed, considerable debate has ensued over which factors account for the Libyan government’s turnaround. Citing the BBC China affair, the US government has nonetheless hailed the PSI as an example of “effective multilateralism”. This one very public example and the attendant claim that the initiative is “effective” ought to provide some basis for analyzing this new, relatively unique, undertaking in multilateral diplomacy dealing with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Drawing on the words of US spokesmen, we propose some indices of effectiveness for the PSI:

Can the Ulster Defense Association Transition into Mainstream Politics

Abstract: (2008). Can the Ulster Defense Association Transition into Mainstream Politics? Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 7-30.

Broadsides: Caricature and the navy, 1756-1815

Abstract: Academics sometimes mistakenly ignore the publications that accompany museum exhibitions. Museums publish them for various reasons, not all of which are academic. This short and richly illustrated ...

Challenge of Climate Change in Himalayan Asia

Abstract: There is now general and widespread agreement among scientists that the Earth’s climate is changing and warming primarily due to human activities — particularly the release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. According to the German Advisory Council on Global Change, “without resolute counteraction, a global increase in temperature of 2–7 degrees Celsius (°C) relative to pre-industrial levels can be expected by 2100”1, while greenhouse gases (GHGs) already released into the atmosphere will impact climate possibly for centuries to come. Despite this widespread agreement and increasingly robust evidence that global climate is changing, uncertainty remains over the extent of future temperature rise and other associated aspects of climate change, especially at regional scales.2 Nonetheless, the consequences of climate change are so significant that a panel of distinguished retired US generals and admirals has concluded that “prudence demands their effects on security need to be assessed”.3 Whatever the precise effects turn out to be, global climate change will profoundly shape the physical and human dynamics of Himalayan Asia’s freshwater crisis and transboundary river politics because climate is intertwined with every facet of the hydrological cycle. Geographer L. Allan James explains, “anthropogenic changes to the environment [such as climate change] often alter hydrologic processes that result in changes to water budgets, water quality, flood frequencies, soil erosion, sedimentation, and aquatic ecology.”4

Inspirational, Aspirational and Operational Heroes: Recruitment, Terror and Heroic Conflict from the Perspective of Armed Groups

Abstract: For every Medal of Honor winner, every four-star general and every sergeant who has sacrificed themselves for the safety and survival of the people they fight with, there is the equivalent on the other side of the equation; heroes among the armed groups who inspire admiration and shape the narrative of what is expected from those who take up arms to fight.1 Just as conventional militaries do, armed groups carry with them historic heroes and villains: myths and stories of what it means to be an extraordinary person, both good and bad, within the context of a group’s cultural norms and within warfare. Indeed, sometimes those heroes are a key element around which group identity and cohesion is based.