INSS 2305 Stanford Graduate School of Business Law Discussion

Question: Select an Eastern European or Asian state that possesses nuclear weapon and identify its primary approach to countering nuclear threats. Does history and culture appear to play a role? If so, how?

Readings that could be useful, but other readings/ sources are welcome:

• Rumelt, Richard. 2011. Good strategy; bad strategy, 116-141. New York: Crown Publishers.
• Snow, Donald & Dennis M. Drew. Making Twenty-First Century strategy: An introduction to modern national security processes and problems. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2006. pp. 165-187 and 249-258. [see readings folder]
• Sokolski, Henry. 2004. “Taking Proliferation Seriously.” In Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, its origins and practice.Edited by Henry D. Sokolski. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute, pp. 341-355. [see readings folder]