The Future of Arms Control

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Arms control, for decades at the core of the foreign policy consensus, today is among the more contentious issues in American politics. It is pilloried and considered out of mode in many conservative quarters, while being viewed as nearly sacrosanct in many liberal circles. In this new book, Michael Levi and Michael O'Hanlon argue that neither the left nor the right has a correct view of the proper utility of arms control in the age of terror.

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"This is one of the first books I would recommend to people looking for a list of actions that should be taken to prevent another catastrophic terrorist attack. Michael A. Levi and Michael E. O'Hanlon have written an extraordinarily comprehensive survey of policy recommendations for confronting terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)....I hope that policy makers of all stripes will read this book and realize that arms control is a major arrow in the quiver in the prevention of WMD proliferation and terrorism." Dan Lindley, University of Notre Dame, Political Science Quarterly, 12/1/2005

"...a valuable resource on the topic that will have some endurance, because the arguments in question will themselves endure." John D. Steinbruner, Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland, Arms Control Today, 3/1/2005

"Co-authors Michael Levi and Michael O'Hanlon present a compelling case for a renewed focus on arms control by the United States." Captain George Galdorisi, U.S. Navy (Retired), United States Naval Institute. Proceedings., 4/1/2005

"Levi and O'Hanlon make a strong case for a broad and sustainable new approach to regulating nuclear, biological, and land mine technologies as an integral component of global security policy." Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State

"There is not, to my knowledge, any comparable book, and this one is a winner." Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland, author, STRATEGY AND ARMS CONTROL (with Morton Halperin)

Author Bio

Michael A. Levi is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is director of the CFR program on energy security and climate change. He is also adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. Michael E. O'Hanlon is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Sydney Stein Jr. Chair. His recent books include Neither Star Wars nor Sanctuary (Brookings, 2004) and Crisis on the Korean Peninsula (McGraw Hill, 2003; with Mike Mochizuki).