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Europe
 
Die Europäische Union: Stolpersteine auf dem Weg zur Integration (The European Union: Stumbling Blocks on the Road to Integration) by Lutz Unterseher, Guest Publication, Studiengruppe Alternative Sicherheitspolitik, Berlin, Germany, May 2006. In German with English abstract (printable fulltext .pdf document). The EU is entering a sustained period of conflict-prone development with grossly different paths of adjustment and modernization stimulating constant fighting for a redistribution of notoriously scarce central resources. If Europe does not want to fall back onto the level of a mere free-trade arrangement, if it intends to become a unified actor in the international arena that transcends the role of just an economic bloc and is also capable of generating and executing global policies with respect to the environment, security and other issues, there is no alternative to an 'open-club régime'.
European Armed Forces of Tomorrow: A New Perspective (full text .html) (printable full text .pdf) (Leicht gekuerzte deutschsprachige Fassung der Studie) by Lutz Unterseher. PDA Guest Publication, 20 October 2003. Models an integrated European Armed Forces. Details the conceptual framework, strategic orientation, key functions, posture, resources, personnel, and budget of a viable all European force, as a complement to a foreign policy of reconciliation.
Bush Administration Policy Toward Europe: Continuity and Change by Charles Knight, January 2002 (printable .pdf version also available). The demise of the Oslo peace process in 2001 and a likely renewal of intense war with Iraq in 2002 or 2003 will play very differently on each side of the Atlantic. In certain circumstances the differences might be so great that European powers would feel compelled to reject American leadership and pursue a separatecourse. Published in Hegemonie oder Stabilität: Alternativen zur Militarisierung der Politik, edited by Volker Kröning (MdB), Lutz Unterseher, and Günter Verheugen (Hrsg.) Bremen: Edition Temmen, August 2002.
German Defense Planning: In a Crucial Phase, October 2001. Update: German Defense Spending: Insufficient Adjustment, February 2002.
by Lutz Unterseher, Berlin. These two reports review recent German defense planning with attention to the difficulty of reconciling personnel and force modernization goals within the budget constraints imposed by the process of currency integration in the UE. It also assesses the effect of the Bundeswehr's new emphasis on power projection on German defense budgeting and planning.
Kosovo and the Just War Tradition
by Bjørn Møller. Paper for the Commission on Internal Conflicts at the 18th International Peace Research Association conference in Tampere, 05-09 August 2000, (printable .pdf file).
Europe's Armed Forces at the Millennium: A Case Study of Change in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany by Dr. Lutz Unterseher, chair, International Study Group on Alternative Security Policy (SAS), PDA Briefing Report #11, December 1999. Many European nations are re-thinking their post-Cold War military requirements in light of NATO's new strategic concept and the experience of the Kosovo war. This article analyzes the process of defense restructuring and modernization in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. In each case, it offers an overview of current military posture and closely examines the plans for change in force structure, equipment procurement, and personnel policies, attending to various constraints on defense planning, including military traditions, economic conditions, and domestic politics.
Slovenian Security in the European Perspective by Anton Grizold and Ljubica Jelusic, September 1999. Examines the development of this new nation's security establishment and policy in the light of Slovenian history, cultural attitudes toward the state, the military, and alliances. Places the development of security policy in the social/political and economic context of Slovenia's efforts to join NATO and the EU and includes analysis of Slovenian public opinion on these issues.
Nato Expansion: Costs and Implications A presentation by Carl Conetta to the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility, Cambridge, MA, USA, 23 July 1998. The expansion of NATO is as fateful an initiative as any undertaken in the past 200 years, calling to mind the decisions made at the 1814 Congress of Vienna and at Versailles in 1919. It is peculiar and disconcerting, then, that the questions this initiative inspires remain so elementary: Why expansion? And, To what effect? At what cost, financial and strategic?
America's New Deal With Europe: NATO Primacy and Double Expansion by Carl Conetta, October 1997. Analyzes US policy on European securtiy issues, including NATO expansion, burdensharing, the Balkans crisis, and relations with Russia and Germany. The American debate and public opinion regarding NATO enlargement is reviewed also.
Also available in print. $6.00 
Defensive Restructuring in the Successor States of the former-Yugoslavia by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Report #8, March 1996. This report offers an alternative to "balancing" the arms in the former-Yugoslavia by way of transfers and military aid, instead illustrating the restructuring of the region's militaries toward greater stability with "mutual defensive superiority." This study was initiated at the request of Ambassador Jonathan Dean who serves on PDA's Research Advisory Board.
Also available in print. $4.00
Low Flying and Security Posture: Examining NATO Military Low-Flying and its Future Prospects by Alan Bloomgarden, Project Ploughshares Working Paper 94-2, December 1994. This report was commissioned by the Innu Nation as a contribution to the environmental impact statement review process of proposed expanded military flying activites in Labrador and Quebec. Examines the role of low-flying tactics in NATO air strategy and questions whether additional training in this tactic is required or appropriate in the post-Cold War period.
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Asia
  Army reset costs, cost of permanent bases in Iraq, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, Pakistan's state of emergency by Bipasha Ray. Defense Analysis Bulletin #5, 08 December 2007.
The Evolving India-U.S. Strategic Relationship a PDA compilation edited by Bipasha Ray, updated 02 February 2008. Collection of links to articles, analyses, commentaries, official reports, congressional testimonies and lectures exploring the evolving strategic relationship between the U.S. and India.
Is Worry about Pakistani Nukes Serving to Keep the U.S. in Iraq? by Charles Knight, PDA commentary, July 2007.
Dissuading China and Fighting the 'Long War', World Policy Journal. The 2006 US Defense Review advanced two new strategic vectors for the US armed forces - one targets a putative "global Islamic insurgency"; the other puts America on a collison course with China.
Fear-mongering and the Next Unnecessary War by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary, 20 July 2003.
General Trainor's Korean War Scenario is Only Half the Story by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary, 04 June 1997.
Asia Pacific Tilts to West: Limit Offensive Weaponry, Boost Arms Control by Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, op-ed published in Defense News, 31 March - 06 April 1997. Examines the pattern of military spending in the Asia Pacific region since the Cold War and makes recommendations for U.S. policy based on data and analysis from Post-Cold War US Military Expenditure in the Context of World Spending Trends.
Also available in print. $4.00
Mideast & Persian Gulf
Confronting Iran: Critical perspectives on the current crisis, its origins, and implications a PDA compilation, updated 01 March 2008. Addresses the nuclear crisis and other aspects of the US-Iran conflict as well as strategic issues.
A Note on the State of Israel by Lutz Unterseher, Universities
of Osnabrueck and Muenster, November 2007. Focuses on selected aspects of Israel's military security. It looks at the basic pattern of this country's recent war, against Hezbollah in 2006, and attempts to give a sketch of the problems affecting Israel's military position today. In addition to objective factors, the subjective side has been considered too: in the form of impressions gained in casual conversations with Israeli citizens.
The Coming Transformation of the Muslim World by Dale F. Eickelman, July 1999. by permission of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), Philadelphia, PA, USA. This essay provides insight into forces of change in Muslim societies that contain seeds of reconciliation with Western culture and political practice. It is worth taking note of the opportunities therein for relations of respect and peace, and for avoidance of the great 'clash of civilizations' famously predicted by Samuel Huntington.
Toward Defensive Restructuring in the Middle East by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight and Lutz Unterseher, Research Monograph #1, February 1991. Examines the character of recent military conflict in the Middle East and outlines a nonoffensive defense posture for nations in the region. It also draws the implications of such a posture for arms transfers and arms control policy. An appendix reviews the pertinent lessons of the 1990-91 Gulf War.
Also available in print. $8.00
Africa
US aid to Somalia, counterterrorism in Horn of Africa, results and motivations of terrorism by Bipasha Ray, Defense Analysis Bulletin #3, 07 March 2007.
On the Threshold of Change: South African Defence Review reflects the continuing struggle to define a military policy for the new era by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher. This commentary reviews the findings of the draft South African Defence Review (SADR) -- Report on Posture, released in October 1996. Although the SADR represents an important advance in the new democratic control of the South African military, it has a number of shortcomings in assessing policy objectives, design directives and force requirements and design.
Also available in print. $4.00
Building Confidence into the Security of Southern Africa
Appendix: A Confidence-Building and Affordable South African Defence in 2001 by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight, and Lutz Unterseher, PDA Briefing Report #7, November 1996. This report offers guidelines for the development of co-operative regional security and specifies a South African defence posture that would support and encourage co-operation.
Also available in print. $4.00
Key Issues in Current South African Defense Planning by Charles Knight and Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #9, July 1996. Addresses four areas of defense policy that will have major impact on the strategic direction of South Africa and on defense budgets in the coming decade. These include: Strategic and Operational Doctrine; Regional Military Co-operation; the "Core Force"; and the Level of Technological Investment.
Also available in print. $2.00
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