Toward New Thinking About Our Changed and Changing World; A Five-Year CGSR Progress Report, LLNL-MI-815280
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Global Security Research, 2020. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. [2], 126 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Illustrations (most in color). Dr. Brad Roberts has served as director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy. In this role, he served as policy director of the Obama administration’s Nuclear Posture Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review and led their implementation. Prior to entering government service, Dr. Roberts was a research fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, editor of The Washington Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Between leaving the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2013 and assuming his current responsibilities, Dr. Roberts was a consulting professor at Stanford University and William Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). While at CISAC, he authored a book entitled The Case for US Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2016. Doctorate in international relations, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Masters, London School Economics and Political Science; and Bachelors in international relations, Stanford University. The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) was founded in 1994 to serve as a bridge between the technical and policy communities. Its core mission is to ensure that each community has some understanding of the perspectives and priorities of the other. In its first decade, the Center focused heavily on defining the realm of the necessary and possible for cooperative threat reduction with the post-Soviet states. In its second decade, the Center’s interests expanded to include proliferation and nonproliferation. In 2015, it set out on a new course. In order to come to terms with a changed and changing security environment, it re-focused on the new issues of deterrence, assurance, and strategic stability. This change followed in part from the conviction of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory leadership that the Laboratory needed to do more to strengthen “the bridge” on these topics. It followed also from the call to action issued by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz: “We must challenge our thinking…in order to permit far-sighted actions that may reduce the chance for surprise and that buttress deterrence.” To encourage well-focused exploration of emerging issues, in 2015 we framed a new analytical approach for the Center, built around five thrust areas: 1. Major Power Rivalry and Deterrence; 2. Regional Challengers and Challenges;
3. Toward Integrated Strategic Deterrence; 4. The Future of Cooperative Measures to Reduce Nuclear/Strategic Dangers; 5. The Future of Long-Term Competitive Strategies. In each area, we then sketched out some high-level framing questions. Then we went to work. Over the following five years, CGSR convened 45 two-day workshops and hosted 116 speakers. It issued 20 major publications and scores of research surveys and workshop summaries. It has built a student program and put more than 100 research associates at work on parts of the Center’s agenda. It has kept stakeholders involved in defining and executing its program of work. It also expanded its mission to put a new focus on encouraging the development of emerging communities of interest. This report summarizes key insights gained over this five-year period. It is comprehensive in approach, touching on all aspects of the CGSR agenda. But it is not exhaustive. After all, it would be impossible to capture in a single report the totality of that work. Instead, this report attempts to provide a coherent set of answers to the high-level framing question, as derived from that work. These should be thought of as initial hypotheses, subject to further inquiry and analysis. The report backs these up with a select discussion of aspects of our work bearing on those answers. The full record is available at the CGSR website. Condition: Good / No Dust Jacket issued.
Keywords: Major Powers, Deterrence, Regional Challenges, Integrated Strategic Deterrence, Cooperative Measures, Nuclear Dangers, Strategic Dangers
ISBN: 9781952565045
[Book #85125]
Price: $75.00