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    Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2015-04-10) Nau, Henry
    Henry R. Nau holds a bachelor's in economics, politics and science from  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and master's and doctoral degrees from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His latest book, Conservative Internationalism: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan, was published August 2013 by Princeton University Press.
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    A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2013-11-15) Friedberg, Aaron
    There may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. Political scientist Aaron L. Friedberg argues that our nation's leaders are failing to act expeditiously enough to counter China's growing strength. He explains how the United States and China define their goals and reveals the strategies each is now employing to achieve its ends. Friedberg demonstrates in this provocative book that the ultimate aim of Chinese policymakers is to "win without fighting," displacing the United States as the leading power in Asia while avoiding direct confrontation. The United States, on the other hand, sends misleading signals about our commitments and resolve, putting us at risk for a war that might otherwise have been avoided. A much-needed wake-up call to U.S. leaders and policymakers, A Contest for Supremacy is a compelling interpretation of a rivalry that will go far to determine the shape of the twenty-first century.
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    Trends in American Foreign Policy: What the Next Administration Will Face
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2012-10-30) Hill, Christopher
    Christopher R. Hill served as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from April 2009 until August 2010. He joined the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in September 2010. He is a career member of the Foreign Service whose prior assignment was assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. He also served as ambassador to the Republic of Korea. On February 14, 2005, he was named as the head of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Previously he has served as U.S. ambassador to Poland (2000-04), ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996-99) and special envoy to Kosovo (1998-99). He also served as special assistant to the president and senior director for southeast European affairs in the National Security Council.
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    New START Treaty and Beyond
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2011-02-22) Warner, Edward III; Mears, Zachary
    Each year the Mershon Center for International Security Studies selects one lecture in honor of Joseph J. Kruzel, an Ohio State faculty member in Political Science who served in the U.S. Air Force as well as other posts in the federal government. Kruzel was killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1995 while serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. Edward (Ted) Warner III discussed the buildup of nuclear arms between the United States and Russia during the Cold War. Since then, we have been working together to decrease our nuclear arms together. He explains how once the treaty takes effect, we each perform weapons inspection​s on each other's supplies which is a key part of the treaty. In the NEW Start Treaty, there was a lot of negotiatio​n of how these inspection​s would be handled between the two countries.
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    The Powers to Lead
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2009-02-11) Nye, Joseph
    Joseph Nye is University Distinguished Service Professor and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at Harvard University. He is also the former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Nye has worked in three government agencies. He served as Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, from 1977 to 1979. He held the position of chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the President, from 1993 to 1994. He then served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, from 1994 to 1995. Nye is author of numerous books and more than 150 articles in professional journals. His most recent publication is The Powers to Lead (Oxford University Press, 2008). In this book, Nye discusses the nature of leadership and how it has been transformed by the information revolution. He also explores his theory of soft power, a leadership approach that seeks to attract, inspire, and persuade rather than dictate.
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    Armchair Killers
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2005-05-04) Cohen, Eliot
    What difference does it make if a political leader has experienced war himself? Does military experience among wartime leaders make them more or less bellicose? Should voters care whether or not their political leaders have had military experience?
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    Future Security for Iraq
    (2004-04-14) Slocombe, Walter
    Walter B. Slocombe was, from May to November 2003, Senior Advisor and Director for Security Affairs (National Security and Defense) in the Coalition Provisional Authority for Iraq. Following his return from Iraq, he returned to his position as a partner at the Washington, DC, law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, from which he was on leave during his service. At CPA, he supervised the program for creating a new Iraqi Army and for planning the new armed forces of the country, assisted in the coordination of other programs to establish new or reformed security services for Iraq, oversaw the program for paying interim stipends to former Iraqi military personnel, and advised the Iraqi interim authorities on setting up national security institutions and procedures suitable for the new Iraq.
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    President of Brookings Institution to give annual Kruzel Lecture
    (2007-10-02) Becker, Cathy
    COLUMBUS -- Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, will give the annual Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Lecture at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., on the campus of The Ohio State University. His topic is “Election of the Century: The American Presidency and the World.”
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    Mershon Center for International Security Studies Kruzel Memorial Lecture
    (2007) Becker, Cathy
    Each year the Mershon Center for International Security Studies selects one lecture in honor of Joseph J. Kruzel, an Ohio State faculty member in Political Science who served in the U.S. Air Force as well as other posts in the federal government. Kruzel was killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1995 while serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs.
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    William Perry - Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Lecture
    (Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2006-11-21) Perry, William
    William Perry is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the School of Engineering. Perry was the 19th U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving from February 1994 to January 1997. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993-94) and as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977-81). His lecture discusses present day security challenges in light of past the security threats faced during the Cold War.