Publishing Institution: EastWest Institute / Political Geography: United States / Topic: International Cooperation

Author:: Jacqueline McLaren Miller and Piin-Fen Kok
Publication Date:: 05-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: Between June 2009 and January 2010, the East West Institute (EWI) began exploring how the United States, China, and the international community could build strategic trust through cooperation on climate change and climate security. EWI examined this issue through policy discussions in several forums: Track 2 processes such as the U.S.-China High Level Security Dialogue and the U.S.-China-Europe Trialogue21 initiative; a roundtable session in New York; and the U.S.-China Working Group on Climate Change—a group of Chinese and American experts convened with the support of the Connect U.S. Fund who met before and after Copenhagen to assess progress and to determine ways to move forward.
Topic:: Climate Change, Environment, International Cooperation, and Bilateral Relations
Political Geography:: United States, China, New York, and Europe

Author:: Andrew Nagorski(ed.)
Publication Date:: 04-2010
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: In the wake of the financial crisis, organizations everywhere have looked to the third revolution in information technology to upgrade their infrastructure and spur a new round of growth. The damage caused by cyber crimes and cyber attacks, however, is at the same time growing increasingly serious. As we face a looming “cyber cold war” and a “cyber arms race,” vital individual, business, and even national interests are threatened. At the same time, faith in information technology and information networks continues to slip. As a result, seeking effective ways to counter cyber threats has become an urgent priority across the globe.
Topic:: Security, Globalization, International Cooperation, and Science and Technology
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, China, India, and Norway

Author:: Danila Bochkarev
Publication Date:: 07-2008
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: The United States and Russia are still the giants of nuclear power, accounting for more than half the world's enriched uranium production. Twenty-five percent of the world's nuclear power plants are found in the United States and half of those power plants use Russian uranium. Russian nuclear fuel now constitutes 10 percent of the U.S. power generation mix. The interdependence arising from existing trade in nuclear fuel points toward a natural partnership.
Topic:: International Cooperation, National Security, Nuclear Weapons, Treaties and Agreements, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and International Security
Political Geography:: Russia and United States

Author:: Greg Austin, Simon Saradzhyan, Daniel Bautista, and Jeff Procak
Publication Date:: 06-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: Russia and the US agree on many more security issues than cause dispute between them. Neither expects war or major conflict with the other as an act of deliberate policy. The two states agree they are not military enemies. They have no military strategic interests of a bilateral nature that are fundamentally antagonistic.
Topic:: Conflict Prevention and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Jeff Procak
Publication Date:: 05-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: At month's end, Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss., will lead a U.S.-Russia Inter parliamentary Group is one of the few open channels for a broad dialogue by the two countries on the state of the badly frayed relationship. The visit, therefore, on the heels of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent meetings in Moscow, presents an important opportunity for the United States and Russia to pull back from an emerging pattern of unnecessary and possibly dangerous disputation.
Topic:: Conflict Prevention and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

Author:: Ken Berry
Publication Date:: 02-2007
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: The United States and Russia have the biggest responsibility for countering nuclear terrorism because together they account for the overwhelming share of global nuclear materials, expertise and weapons. The two countries also have between them the most substantial capacities in counter-terrorism intelligence and response. There is little to separate the two in their policies against nuclear terrorism. Where there are differences in approach on some aspects of nuclear proliferation, the two countries have accepted an obligation as the pre-eminent nuclear powers to try to narrow their differences. The international community cannot defeat nuclear terrorism or limit it without an active and vigorous alliance between Washington and Moscow.
Topic:: Arms Control and Proliferation, Development, International Cooperation, and Terrorism
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Washington, and Moscow

Author:: Hella Pick
Publication Date:: 04-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: EastWest Institute
Abstract:: The ramifications of the Iraq crisis are provoking a wholesale reassessment of the post-1945 system of multinational institutions ñ ranging from the United Nations to NATO and the European Union. Underlying such concerns is Americaís use of power and the role it defines for itself in managing its international relations.
Topic:: NATO and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Iraq, America, Europe, and Asia

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