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Enhancement by enlargement : the Proliferation Security Initiative / Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian G. Chow, Gregory S. Jones ; prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Title
Enhancement by enlargement : the Proliferation Security Initiative / Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian G. Chow, Gregory S. Jones ; prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Author
Wolf, Charles, Jr., 1924-2016.
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Chow, Brian G.
  • Jones, Gregory S.
  • National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
  • Rand Corporation.
Description
62 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Assesses the reasons for the five key Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) "hold-out" nations--Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, and China, all of which are reluctant to affiliate with PSI--and offers strategies for addressing those reasons and thereby enhancing the possibility that these nations will decide to affiliate in the near future.
Uniform Title
Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG806.
Subject
Proliferation Security Initiative
Note
  • "MG-806."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-62).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Analysis of costs and benefits of PSI affiliation for the five countries -- Cutting the Gordian knot: principles and measures to encourage PSI affiliation -- Preliminary ideas for further consideration -- Appendixes: A. The proliferation security initiative (PSI) -- B. Interdiction principles of the proliferation of security initiative -- C. Status of countries on treaties, agreements, and programs of potential relevance to PSI -- D. Summary of Pakistan's report on national measures on the implementation of security council resolution 1540 (2004).
ISBN
9780833045799 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008050796