The Comparative Strategic Cultures Curriculum project is an ASCO effort that explored approaches for leveraging strategic culture analyses to understanding WMD behavior. The report includes a collection of commissioned essays and case studies that examine the field of strategic culture and assess its applicability as a methodological approach to understanding decisions to acquire, proliferate, or use WMD, or abide by or violate international norms regarding WMD. More information about this project, and the essays and case studies, can be found at http://www.dtra.mil/
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CURRENT ARTICLES - Europe
 
NATO Debates BMD Ahead of April Bucharest Summit
  NATO governments are divided over several important questions as the allies prepare to gather for a summit in Bucharest from April 2-4 . . . view article
 
New French Nuclear Deals in the Middle East Generate Proliferation Concerns
  On January 15, 2008, the Associated Press announced that France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had signed an agreement that establishes a framework for the construction of two nuclear reactors in the UAE . . . view article
 
 
PREVIOUS ARTICLES - Europe
 
March 2008 Issue

Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: An Old Problem Resurfaces

Russian BMD Anxieties Impact CFE Treaty
 
December 2007/January 2008 Issue
South Africa, Germany Announce Significant Developments in Prosecution of Suspected Khan Network Participants
 
November 2007
Niger Ends France’s “De Facto” Uranium Mining Monopoly, Grants Rights to China and India
 
October 2007
Experts Offer Extraterritorial Enforcement of Domestic Laws, Tighter Export Controls, Regional Cooperation to Improve Implementation of Biological Weapons Convention
 
September 2007

Franco-Libyan Nuclear Protocol Triggers Controversy

Update: German and U.K. Investigations Target Nuclear Exports to Iran
 
July/August 2007 Issue
The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Drives Forward
 
May 2007 Issue
European Union-Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: What's Next?
 
April 2007 Issue
Special Report: The European Ballistic Missile Defense Dispute

Part 1 - U.S. The View from Eastern Europe

Part 2 - U.S. The View from Western Europe
 
November 2006
U.S. – Turkey Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Stirs Debate in Turkey, Sets Benchmarks for Anticipated U.S. – India Nuclear Accord
 
July/August 2006

Iran Exploited Turkish Trading Firm to Procure Dual-Use Goods From Western European, U.S. Companies

Controversy Over Belarusian Air Defense Systems and Seizure of Dual-Use Goods in Austria Turn Spotlight on Iranian Missile Program
 
June 2006
Germany, Belgium, and UK Act on Iranian WMD and Missile Equipment Trafficking
 
April 2006

Turkey Copes with Iran, Using Mix of Strategies

Kurds Accuse Turkish Military of Using Chemical Weapons