Alliance Relations & Security Cooperation

Following are all current, recent, and past IFPA projects, publications, conferences, workshops, articles, and presentations regarding U.S. alliance relations and/or security cooperation.

  • research projects
  • publications
  • conferences & workshops
  • articles & presentations
After Hatoyama: Preparing for Japanese Foreign Policy in Transition
This project studies the challenges that the recently elected Japanese government faces as it tries to develop viable alternatives to the bilateralism on which its foreign policy has been predicated for over fifty years.
project details || From Rhetoric to Reality (1.51 MB)
Peacebuilding as a U.S.-Japan Alliance Mission
Working together with partners from Osaka University’s School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) and others, IFPA has undertaken this project to examine U.S.-Japan peacebuilding collaboration and how it could strengt || hen the alliance in the long run.
project details || March 31–April 1, 2012, workshop agenda || March 31–April 1, 2012, workshop partcipants || April 2011 workshop
New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
This project explores and assesses trends that together could transform the Arctic from a relative strategic backwater to a strategic crossroads of global importance.
project details || monograph (47.36 MB) || selected readings
Rapid Strategic Assessment for the NATO Special Operations Headquarters
In support of the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ), IFPA is a major contributor to the Rapid Strategic Assessment project, which works with NSHQ in carrying out its core missions.
project details || project-related meetings || NATO Review article by Jacquelyn K. Davis
The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Future of Extended Deterrence
In the new setting since North Korea’s nuclear test, this project, completed in 2009, undertakes a fresh assessment of thinking in Japan and the United States about extended deterrence in Northeast Asia.
project report (1.86 MB) || project details
In Times of Crisis: Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination in the United States and Japan
With support from the Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership (CGP), IFPA led this collaborative effort, completed in 2009, by U.S. and Japanese specialists to conduct research and foster dialogue among civilian and military groups for the purposes of improving their civil-military communication in domestic and international crises.
monograph front matter and executive summary (3.59 MB) || full monograph available for purchase ($25) || project details
Identifying Trends in Japan-DPRK Relations and Implications for U.S. Policy
This project, funded by the Smith-Richardson Foundation and completed in 2006, examined the determining factors behind Japan's evolving North Korea policy and how they will affect America's strategic and tactical approaches to the DPRK.
report (1.38 MB) || project details
North American Homeland Security and Defense: Enhancing U.S. Joint Planning and Cooperation with Canada and Mexico in the War against Terrorism
This project, completed in early 2006, explored options to increase homeland defense/security cooperation between the United States and Canada and between the United States and Mexico.
U.S.-Canada workshop report (2.34 MB) || U.S.-Mexico workshop report (673 KB)
Stability and Confidence Building on the Korean Peninsula: Meshing Korean Reconciliation with U.S. Security Requirements
This study, funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation and completed in 2004, made a unique contribution both to the broad policy debate on the U.S. response to Korean reconciliation and to the articulation of a restructured military posture better suited to the geopolitical conditions of a reconciled (if not reunified) Korea. The study concluded with a monograph, Alliance Diversification and the Future of the U.S.-Korean Security Relationship, by Charles M. Perry, Jacquelyn K. Davis, James L. Schoff, and Toshi Yoshihara.
monograph available for purchase ($25)
Security Dynamics in Southeastern Europe
IFPA and the Kokkalis Foundation (Athens, Greece) collaborated on a project to examine the principal strategic-military challenges in this uncertain and evolving region and to assess their implications for the bilateral U.S.-Greek relationship and broader Alliance relations. Three volumes were produced:
  • Greek-Turkish Relations in the Era of Globalization, 2001
  • New Approaches to Balkan Studies, 2003
    available for purchase ($35)
  • Defense Reform, Modernization & Military Cooperation in Southeastern Europe, 2004
    available for purchase ($35)
Northeast Asia After Korean Unification: Preparing the Japan-U.S. Alliance
This joint three-year study completed in 2003 by IFPA and the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) examined the long-term implications of Korean unification for the U.S.-Japan alliance. The study concluded with a monograph, The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Preparing for Korean Reconciliation & Beyond, by Charles M. Perry and Toshi Yoshihara.
monograph available for purchase ($18)
Enhancing Joint Crisis Management Capabilities: Issues and Policy Options for Japan-U.S. Cooperation
In this joint two-year study completed in 2002, IFPA and the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) examined issues and policy options on joint crisis management between Japan and the United States, exploring how Tokyo and Washington might better prepare for and respond to an array of crisis scenarios ranging from traditional security threats to emerging challenges.
Overseas Presence and Power Projection
This study assessed the post-Cold War security environment and the contribution of American military posture to global security. Two monographs were produced:
From Rhetoric to Reality: Foreign-Policy Making under the Democratic Party of Japan
Weston S. Konishi
April 2012, 112 pp
Description
This report examines the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)’s foreign-policy making since it took power in 2009. Prepared as part of a project supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the report looks at the key people, policies, and processes that have come to underlie the DPJ’s foreign-policy making as a ruling party, and it includes an attempt to define and categorize four main foreign policy strains within the party. Rather than focus on the current state of U.S.-Japan relations, this study examines Japan’s broader diplomatic and strategic activity beyond the bilateral relationship while considering how these actions might impact the U.S.-Japan relationship in the future.
report (1.51 MB) || project details
New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
Charles M. Perry and Bobby Andersen
February 2012, 190 pp
Description
A comprehensive examination of the new strategic map now emerging in the Arctic as the polar ice cap continues to melt, opening a new ocean and giving way to new and ever larger waterways in the High North.
monograph (47.36 MB) || project details || selected readings
Denuclearizing North Korea: Exploring Multilateral Approaches to Risk Reduction and Peace Regime Building
Weston S. Konishi
September 2011, 71 pp
Description
The final project report from a nongovernmental (Track 2) multinational working group led by IFPA to address security issues on the Korean peninsula.
project report (765 KB) || project details
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding: From a Whole-of-Government to a Whole-of-Alliance Approach with Japan
Weston S. Konishi and Charles T. McClean
June 2011, 14 pp
Description
This paper was first presented at a one-day bilateral workshop on April 29, 2011, held in conjunction with the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in Washington, D.C. In the papers, authors aim to assess each government's “whole-of-government” or interagency coordination of peacebuilding policies and to identify priorities, assets, and expertise as applied to Afghanistan and Sudan. The goal of the project is to explore the strengths and weaknesses of both the United States and Japan’s respective initiatives with an eye toward how the two allies can best cooperate and work synergistically in a “whole of alliance” approach to peacebuilding operations in vulnerable or failing states.
peacebuilding paper (164 KB) || workshop agenda || project details
Peacebuilding as a U.S.-Japan Alliance Mission: Developing a Complementary “Whole-of-Alliance” Approach
Weston S. Konishi
May 2011, 8 pp
Description
Summary of an April 29, 2011, workshop held in conjunction with the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Washington, D.C.
workshop summary (164 KB) || workshop agenda || project details
Risk Reduction & Confidence Building on the Korean Peninsula: Challenges, Opportunities & Implications for Regional Stability
Workshop report by Charles M. Perry, Jacquelyn K. Davis, and Weston S. Konishi
May 2011, 21 pp
Description
Report on a January 19, 2011, workshop that brought together approximately fifty prominent policymakers and experts from the United States, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea for in-depth discussions focusing on the current security situation on and surrounding the Korean Peninsula and prospects for greater cooperation among the three nations represented at the workshop.
report (8.63 MB) || workshop details
A New NATO, Euro-Atlantic Security, and the Greek-American Partnership
June 2009
Description
Report on a high-level conference convened April 28-29, 2009, by the Defense Analysis Institute of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense, the Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundation, and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) with official NATO sponsorship. As NATO marks its sixtieth anniversary, it faces enduring questions about strategic focus, operational priorities, military requirements, and collaborative ties with partner nations and other international institutions. Some of these questions were addressed at the April 2009 NATO summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, but a broader and ongoing dialogue will be essential as the Alliance moves forward in the years ahead; this conference addressed and contributed to that process.
conference report (1.44 MB) || NATO 60th anniversary events
In Times of Crisis: U.S.-Japan Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination
James L. Schoff and Marina Travayiakis
May 2009, 144 pp
Description
The many large-scale natural disasters and ambitious nation-building projects over the last several years call attention to the potential value of deploying national military assets in support of disaster relief and recovery efforts, as well as to the challenges that disaster relief agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) face when working closely with the military. Both U.S. and Japanese policy makers understand that leveraging military resources during a disaster is an opportunity to save lives and property, to help maintain stability and prosperity in affected nations, and to promote the allies' diplomatic interests, but it must be done carefully. Together with a handful of other key countries, the United States and Japan can help form a valuable crisis core group that cooperates in support of large-scale, UN-led disaster relief operations, but effective civil-military coordination is essential to making this work. The In Times of Crisis project was a multi-year joint effort of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) and the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), involving practitioners and policy makers from both countries, the United Nations, and NGOs through interviews and bilateral workshops. This monograph explains the team's findings and ways to improve the allies' ability to effectively pool civilian and military resources and to respond together (bilaterally or as part of a broader coalition) in support of host nations and international relief agencies to speed recovery in times of crisis.
front matter and executive summary (3.59 MB) || full monograph available for purchase ($25) || project details
Peace Regime Building for a Nuclear Weapon-free Korean Peninsula: What Next?
James L. Schoff and Yaron Eisenberg
May 2009
Description
North Korea's recent nuclear test is only the latest in a series of moves by Pyongyang that seem directed at "shaping a new diplomatic framework" for the Korean Peninsula, rejecting the Six-Party process and returning to its traditional insistence on bilateral talks with the United States to end the Korean War. These developments illustrate the strong linkages between North Korean denuclearization and peace regime building on the Korean Peninsula (i.e., trying to institute a political solution to the Korean War beyond just a military armistice). Working with partners in South Korea, the United States, and China, IFPA is in the middle of a three-year project exploring peace regime building on the Korean Peninsula in ways that support and facilitate the denuclearization objectives of the Six-Party Talks; this interim report describes the results of over a year's worth of interviews, research, and a U.S.-South Korea bilateral workshop, up to and including North Korea's May 2009 nuclear test.
project report (2.65 MB) || project details
Realigning Priorities: The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Future of Extended Deterrence
James L. Schoff
May 2009
Description
North Korea's missile/rocket launch over Japan and maritime skirmishes in the South China Sea between the United States and China place new burdens on the U.S.-Japan security relationship. For more than two generations the United States has provided a security guarantee to Japan that is backed by the U.S. nuclear capability. The future of this extended deterrence relationship is the focus of this report. It addresses evolving discussion about deterrence in Japan as well as the United States and examines the conditions under which Japan might consider new approaches to assuring its future security.
project report (1.86 MB) || project details
NATO's Relevance and EUCOM's Priorities in Dealing with a Rising Russia
Jacquelyn K. Davis and Charles M. Perry
August 2008
Description
This report summarizes and elaborates upon discussions held at an IFPA workshop by the same name held on July 30, 2008, and organized in support of GEN Bantz Craddock, USA, then SACEUR and commander of USEUCOM. The report discusses emerging Allied concerns over a more assertive Russian security posture, and discusses potential opportunities for USEUCOM-led security cooperation in the greater Black Sea and Caucasus region as a way to enhance stability. Against the backdrop of the Russian-Georgian conflict (which erupted shortly after the workshop was held), the report also offers recommendations for appropriate U.S. and Allied responses.
NATO's Strategic Relevance and U.S. European Command Planning
Jacquelyn K. Davis and Charles M. Perry
March 2008
Description
This report analyzes the perspectives of NATO and SHAPE officials on the proper scope, focus, and timing of future adjustments to the Alliance’s 1999 Strategic Concept to bring it into closer accord with current and emerging strategic trends and priorities. The report also evaluates potential revisions to NATO’s deterrence posture (including with respect to forward-deployed nuclear weapons), and examines emerging requirements for Allied counter-proliferation planning, “out-of-area” missions (such as Afghanistan ), and civil-military coordination to protect Allied territory and critical infrastructure. Based on these assessments, recommendations are made for U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) planning priorities.
Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korean Peninsula
Multilateral Workshop Summary & ProjectReport
June 2005, 50 pp
report (1.47 MB)
Security Policy Reforms in East Asia and a Trilateral Crisis Response Planning Opportunity
Second interim report, an IFPA Project Interim Paper
March 2005, 32 pp
report (1.68 MB)
The Mexican-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
January 2005, 35 pp
workshop report (673 KB)
The Canada-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
January 2005, 35 pp
workshop report (2.34 MB)
Trilateral Tools for Managing Complex Contingencies: U.S.-Japan-Korea Cooperation in Disaster Relief & Stabilization/Reconstruction Missions
January 2005, 5 pp
seminar report (33 KB)
The Evolution of TCOG as a Diplomatic Tool: First Interim Report
An IFPA Project Interim Paper
November 2004, 32 pp
report (1.72 MB)
Building Six-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korea
James L. Schoff, Charles M. Perry, and Jacquelyn K. Davis
January 2004, 112 pp
available for purchase ($25)
Defense Reform, Modernization, & Military Cooperation in Southeastern Europe: Vol. 3 of the IFPA-Kokkalis Series on Southeast European Policy
Edited by Charles M. Perry and Dimitris Keridis
January 2004, 318 pp
available for purchase ($35)
Alliance Diversification & the Future of the U.S.-Korean Security Relationship
Charles M. Perry, Jecquelyn K. Davis, James L. Schoff, and Toshi Yoshihara
January 2004, 224 pp
available for purchase ($25)
Crisis Management in Japan & the United States: Creating Opportunities for Cooperation amid Dramatic Change
Edited by James L. Schoff
January 2004, 156 pp
available for purchase ($25)
The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Preparing for Korean Reconciliation & Beyond
Charles M. Perry and Toshi Yoshihara
July 2003, 184 pp
available for purchase ($18)
Reluctant Allies and Competitive Partners: U.S.-French Relations at the Breaking Point?
Jacquelyn K. Davis
July 2003, 242 pp
available for purchase ($25)
WMD Challenges on the Korean Peninsula and New Approaches: A Trilateral Dialogue Report
Summary report on a U.S.-ROK-Japan workshop
July 2003
report (1.24 MB) || project details
The Strategic and Operational Implications of NATO Enlargement in the Baltic Region
July 2002
Northeast Asian Security after Korean Reconciliation or Reunification: Preparing the U.S.-Japan Alliance
February 2002
report (509 KB MB)
Greek-Turkish Relations in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Dimitris Keridis and Dimitrios Triantaphyllou
November 2001
Strategic Dynamics in the Nordic/Baltic Region: Implications for U.S. Policy
Charles M. Perry, Michael J. Sweeney, and Andrew C. Winner
June 2000, 205 pp
available for purchase ($22.95)
NATO and Southeastern Europe: Security Issues for the Early 21st Century
Edited by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., and Dimitris Keridis
June 2000, 248 pp
available for purchase ($24.95)
European Security Institutions: Ready for the 21st Century?
IFPA-Fletcher School Project Team
January 2000, 248 pp
available for purchase ($15)
Strategic Paradigms 2025
Jacquelyn K. Davis and Michael J. Sweeney
June 1999, 353 pp
available for purchase ($15)
The Way Ahead for Transatlantic Cooperation: Exploiting Collective Advantages
January 1999, 33 pp
Security in Southeastern Europe and the U.S.-Greek Relationship
Edited by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., and Dimitris Keridis
June 1997, 208 pp
available for purchase ($10)
Allied-Central European Workshop on Post-Cold War Concepts of Deterrence
Workshop report
January 1996, 22 pp
Allied Planning for Peacekeeping and Conflict Management: Tailoring Military Means to Political Ends
Report from the Eighth International Roundtable Conference on NATO,
June 1994, 100 pp
available for purchase ($1 plus shipping)
Pacific Partners: Canada and the United States
Charles F. Doran, Michael K. Hawes, Brian L. Job, Rank Langdon, and Douglas Ross
January 1994, 129 pp
available for purchase ($10)
The Korean-U.S. Relationship in an Era of Change: Summary of a Transpacific Dialogue
Workshop report
July 1993, 38 pp
available for purchase ($1 plus shipping)
Transatlantic Relations in the 1990s: The Emergence of New Security Architectures
Hans van de Broek, Pierre-Etienne Champenois, Willem van Eekelen, André Erdös, Lynn Hansen, Gebhardt von Moltke, Jerzy Nowak, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., and Rob de Wijk
June 1993, 92 pp
available for purchase ($11.95)
Preventing Instability in Post-Cold War Europe: The Institutional Responses of NATO, the WEU, the EC, the CSCE, and the UN
Report from the Seventh International Roundtable Conference on NATO
July 1992, 58 pp
available for purchase ($1 plus shipping)
Security Dynamics on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for Regional Stability and Defense Planning
Workshop report
June 1992
available for purchase ($1 plus shipping)
Change in Europe and the Emergence of New Strategic Priorities: Restructuring Security Arrangements for the 1990s
Report from the Sixth International Roundtable Conference on NATO,
December 1991, 45 pp
available for purchase ($1 plus shipping)
Japan and the United States: Troubled Partners in a Changing World
Mike Mochizuki, James E. Auer, Noboru Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Reizo Utagawa, John Curtis Perry, and Jacquelyn K. Davis
January 1991, 144 pp
available for purchase ($11.95)
U.S.-Japan Peacebuilding Cooperation: Roles and Recommendations
March 31 – April 1, 2012, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka, Japan
Description
This workshop, organized by IFPA and the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), was part of IFPA's ongoing Peacebuilding as a U.S.-Japan Alliance Mission project.
project details || workshop agenda || workshop participants || April 2011 workshop
Counter-Piracy and Counter-Terrorism Planning for Somalia and the Horn of Africa: Implications for NATO and NSHQ Planning
January 10, 2012, The Hague, the Netherlands
Description
IFPA collaborated with the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies to organize the seventh NATO SOF Coordination Centre (NSCC) Senior Steering Group (SSG) meeting, a workshop on Somalia and future requirements for counter-piracy and counter-terrorism planning. The workshop explored options for dealing with piracy and its potential use by al-Shabab to destabilize Somalia and its regional partners, and to understand more precisely the possibilities for and/or constraints on an expanded use of NATO, the European Union (EU), or national forces to support the African Union mission in Somalia (AUMIS), to shore up the position of the Transnational Federal Government (TFG) in and possibly beyond Mogadishu, and to empower regional forces in their fight against violent extremists on the African continent. A related workshop objective was to explore the possibilities for enhancing and broadening intelligence collaboration on counter-piracy and counter-terrorism planning between NATO and the EU, and how such collaboration could enable NATO SOF to position themselves more effectively should the Alliance’s political leaders decide to support a more forward-leaning position on Somalia and the Horn of Africa, either to facilitate World Food Program deliveries or to employ the use of force, under a new UNSC mandate, to target jihadi training camps, pirate bases, or other related logistical infrastructure on the ground in Somalia. 
meeting agenda || project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
NATO Special Operations Headquarters Senior Steering Group Meeting
May 24 – May 26, 2011, Krakow, Poland
Description
The fifth SSG meeting took place in Krakow, Poland, on May 24–26, 2011, in conjunction with the NATO SOF Commanders' Conference and the dedication of the new Polish SOF Headquarters. The NATO SOF Commanders' Conference featured a panel presentation by four SSG members, focusing on lessons-learned from Afghanistan and recent operations. The four SSG members who participated on this panel — Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis, Dr. Rob de Wijk, Commodore Lars Wille-Jorgensen, and Dr. Andrzej Karkoszka — || had each traveled to Afghanistan with members of the NSHQ and met with ISAF and national SOF teams to hear their perspectives on lessons-learned and the way ahead for NATO SOF planning, training and education, and capabilities development. This meeting also featured the participation of senior Polish defense officials and leaders from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), including Admiral Eric Olson.
slides (896 KB) || project details
Peacebuilding as a U.S.-Japan Alliance Mission: Developing a Complementary “Whole-of-Alliance” Approach
April 29, 2011, Washington, D.C., Center for Global Partnership (CGP), Partner Institution: Osaka University, Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP)
Description
The purpose of this event was to convene a group of experts and practitioners to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the United States and Japan in international peacebuilding operations. The workshop discussions were led by seven core research members representing U.S., Japanese, and UN perspectives on peacebuilding approaches, using Afghanistan and Sudan as case studies. Other participants were drawn from the government and NGO sectors and contributed to an open exchange of ideas about how Japan and the United States can best cooperate and work synergistically in a “whole-of-alliance” approach to peacebuilding operations in vulnerable or failing states.
workshop details || project details || workshop agenda || workshop summary (275 KB)
U.S.-Russian Relations Beyond New START: What’s Next, What’s Possible, and What’s Necessary
March 7, 2011, Washington, D.C., an IFPA-DTRA-EUCOM workshop
Risk Reduction & Confidence Building on the Korean Peninsula: Challenges, Opportunities & Implications for Regional Stability
January 19, 2011, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Description
A one-day trilateral dialogue organized by IFPA, the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), and the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
workshop details || workshop agenda || workshop report
NATO Special Operations Headquarters Senior Steering Group Meeting
November 21 – November 24, 2010, Mons, Belgium
Description
This meeting was held in Mons, Belgium, on November 21-23, 2010, in conjunction with the NSHQ's formal activation ceremony and a NATO SOF commanders' conference. At this meeting, Dr. Jamie Shea, then of the Secretary General's Private Office, reported on the results of NATO's Lisbon Summit and highlighted the creation of a new NATO directorate focused on emerging security challenges (where he will now work as its Deputy Assistant Secretary General). The SSG also considered ways to boost support for SOF forces, planning, and capabilities in national capitals and discussed new mission areas, emanating from NATO's New Strategic Concept, for NATO SOF.
project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
NATO SOF Headquarters Senior Advisory Group Meeting
March 10 – March 11, 2010, Brussels and Mons, Belgium
Description
SAG members discussed models for the creation of a NATO SOF aviation element and considered new mission areas for which NATO SOF capabilities might be tasked.
project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
NATO SOF Coordination Centre Senior Advisory Group Meeting
September 9 – September 11, 2009, Rome, Italy
Description
The second meeting of the NATO SOF Coordination Centre (NSCC) Senior Advisory Group (SAG). held in conjunction with a larger NATO SOF Symposium entitled "NATO Special Operations Forces (SOF) – Key to Mission Success at the Strategic Level." At this second meeting, SSG members discussed implications of the new NATO Strategic Concept for SOF employment and mission planning, as well as opportunities for enhanced intelligence sharing and the operational development of Alliance SOF.
project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
NATO SOF Coordination Centre Senior Advisory Group Meeting
June 17, 2009, Brussels and Mons, Belgium
Description
The first meeting of the NATO SOF Coordination Centre (NSCC) Senior Advisory Group (SAG). SAG members were introduced to the NSCC, given briefings about its capabilities, personnel, mission-taskings, and its role in operational planning for Afghanistan.
project details || list of all SAG/SSG meetings
A New NATO, Euro-Atlantic Security, and the Greek-American Partnership
April 28 – April 29, 2009, Washington, D.C.
report (1.44 MB) || conference details || NATO 60th anniversary events
Peace Regime Building on the Korean Peninsula
November 22, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Description
A bilateral workshop to help develop an allied consensus with regard to peace regime development on the Korean Peninsula and for broader U.S.-ROK policy coordination vis-á-vis North Korea.
interim report (2.65 MB) || project details
In Times of Crisis: U.S.-Japan Civil-Military Coordination for Disaster Relief Missions
October 28, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
Description
Participants reviewed recent civil-military coordination in each country and at the United Nations, discussed the likely future course of these trends, evaluated efforts to date regarding the strengthening of allied cooperation, and discussed possible improvements.
workshop agenda || workshop participants || project details || monograph front matter and executive summary (3.59 MB) || full monograph available for purchase ($25)
In Times of Crisis: Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination in the United States and Japan
December 12, 2006, Washington, D.C.
workshop details || project details || monograph front matter and executive summary (3.59 MB) || full monograph available for purchase ($25)
SHAPE Seminar on Weapons of Mass Destruction: Risks and Challenges to Alliance Security
March 9, 2006, Brussels, Belgium, in support of General James L. Jones, the supreme Allied commander, Europe (SACEUR)
Building Multi-party Capacity for a WMD-free Korean Peninsula
February 17, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii
Description
Government officials and foreign-policy experts from the United States, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Australia gathered for a one-day workshop to discuss the six-party talks and to explore options for building regional capacity to implement a denuclearization agreement with North Korea, if and when one is concluded.
project report & workshop summary (1.5 MB) || project details
Mexican-U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
December 2, 2005, Washington, D.C.
report (673 KB)
Trilateral Tools for Managing Complex Contingencies: U.S.-Japan-Korea Cooperation in Disaster Relief & Stabilization/ Reconstruction Missions
November 2, 2005, Washington, D.C.
report
Canada - U.S. Partnership: Enhancing Our Common Security
March 14, 2005, Washington, D.C.
report (2.34 MB)
Roundtable Dialogue with Allied Command Transformation
March 9, 2005, Washington D.C., Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT). Preliminary to wider U.S.-NATO meeting in 2005–06.
Increasing the Effectiveness of US Security Cooperation Efforts in the Caucasus
July 22, 2004, Washington, D.C., in support of U.S. European Command
The Changing Face of Deterrence for NATO: New Concepts, Capabilities, and Challenges
March 4, 2004, Washington, D.C., in support of U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. European Command, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Future of the Korean Peninsula and Japan - U.S. - Korea Security Cooperation
February 20, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, part of the Building Six-Party Capacity project
WMD Challenges on the Korean Peninsula and New Approaches: A U.S. - ROK - Japanese Dialogue
April 11, 2003, Seoul, South Korea, part of the Building Six-Party Capacity project
report (1.24 MB) || project details
Stability, Deterrence, and the Future of the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Current Pressures and Emerging Priorities
January 29, 2003, Washington, D.C., in support of U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Forces Korea, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
The 33rd IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy
October 16 – October 17, 2002, Washington, D.C.
report (1.95 MB)
Missile Defense and Counterproliferation on the Korean Peninsula: Exploring U.S. - ROK Options and Requirements
October 8, 2002, Seoul, South Korea
report (1.24 MB) || project details
The WMD Challenge on the Korean Peninsula: Exploring a Joint U.S. - ROK Alliance Response
April 26, 2002, Washington, D.C., part of the Building Six-Party Capacity project
workshop agenda || workshop participants || project details
Enhancing Japanese - U.S. Cooperation on Crisis and Consequence Management: Issues Raised by a Large-scale Earthquake in Tokyo and the Exploitation of the Event by Unknown Assailants
April 10 – April 11, 2002, Tokyo, Japan
report (2.85 MB)
Preparing the U.S. - Japan Alliance for a New Security Environment
April 8 – April 9, 2002, Washington D.C.
The Strategic and Operational Implications of NATO Enlargement for the Southern Region
March 16 – March 19, 2002, Naples, Italy, in support of Allied Forces Southern Region
NATO after 9/11: A US Perspective
By Jacquelyn K. Davis, September 2011
article available online
Consensus Building and Peace Regime Building on the Korean Peninsula
Charles M. Perry and James L. Schoff
International Journal of Korean Unification Studies 19, no. 1 (June 30, 2010)
article
Achieving Strategic and Economic Balance in the Japan-US-China Triangle
James L. Schoff and Jun Kurihara
Cambridge Gazette: Politico-Economic Commentaries, no. 4, March 29, 2010
article || project details
For Whom Japan's Last Dance Is Saved — China, the United States, or Chimerica?
Lecture by James L. Schoff
Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), Tokyo, Japan, March 29, 2010
lecture || about the lecture || project details
The Road to Better US-North Korea Relations Starts in Seoul
James L. Schoff
PacNet, no. 8, February 22, 2010
article || project details
Broaching Peace Regime Concepts to Support North Korean Denuclearization
James L. Schoff
Produced as part of the Nautilus Institute study, Improving Regional Security and Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula: U.S. Policy Interests and Options, 2009
paper || project details || about the Nautilus Institute study
U.S. Extended Deterrence Commitments in East Asia and U.S. Nuclear Posture
Speech by James L. Schoff
Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2009
U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Future of Extended Deterrence
Speech by James L. Schoff
Stanford University Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, May 11, 2009
An Alliance in Need of Attention
Op-ed by Richard J. Samuels and James L. Schoff
International Herald Tribune, January 22, 2009
available online (32 KB)
U.S. National Defense Strategy & Security of Japan: U.S. Military Transformation and Beyond
Speech by James L. Schoff, October 29, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
speech (144 KB)
The Need for Trilateral Cooperation
By James L. Schoff
Far Eastern Economic Review, July 2008
Collaboration with NATO on Missile Defense
Speech by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.,
Conference on Missile Defence after the Bucharest NATO Summit: European and American Perspectives, Prague, the Czech Republic, May 5, 2008
speech (37 KB)
Future Prospects for U.S.-Japan-ROK Coordination
Speech by James L. Schoff
Pacific Forum CSIS conference, Changing Notions of National Identity and Implications for U.S.-Japan-ROK Relations, in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 5, 2008.
Hedging and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Speech by James L. Schoff
U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue, hosted by MIT at the Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts, February 20, 2008.
Transformation of the U.S.-Japan Alliance
James L. Schoff
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 31, no. 1(Winter 2007)
article (144 KB)
Japan-North Korea Relations from an American Perspective
Speech by James L. Schoff
16th Diplomatic Roundtable, December 14, 2005, sponsored by the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR) / the Global Forum of Japan / the Council on East Asian Community (in Tokyo)
speech (53 KB)
The Current State of U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue: A Strategic Pause, or an Opportunity Slipping Away?
James L. Schoff
Sekai Shuho, October 25, 2005
article