Institute
for Global and Regional Security Studies
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Spring
Quarter 2002
SIS 425 - International Law and Arms Control
Taught
by
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
Former Acting Director of the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency
Former Special
Representative of President Clinton for Arms Control and Disarmament
Class Schedule
Fridays, 8:30-10:20 a.m. in Balmer 207
Class discussion for enrolled students.
Thursday Evening Lectures, 5:30-6:20 p.m. in Kane Hall 220
Featuring Thomas Graham and distinguished guest speakers.
Open to the public and required for enrolled students.
Thursdays, 6:30-7:20 p.m. in Kane Hall 220
Class session following the lecture is for enrolled students only.
Registration is limited to 35 students - undergraduate and
graduate.
For registration information, see the University
of Washington Time Schedule.
CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE:
TOPICS - LECTURE SCHEDULE - READINGS - GRAHAM AND GUESTS' BIOGRAPHIES
AMONG THE TOPICS TO BE COVERED...
The Beginnings of Arms Control
Chemical and Biological Weapons
SALT I, SALT II—The Nixon-Ford Years, SALT II—The Carter Years
The Reagan Revolution, the INF, and the START Treaties
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE)
The Survival of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
The NPT Aftermath and the End of ACDA
Democracies, Arms Control, and International Security
All of the following lectures take place 5:30-6:20 p.m. in Kane Hall 220. These lectures are open to the public and required for students.
April 11 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Regime
Lecture by Ambassador Thomas
Graham
Required Reading:
-Disarmament Sketches, Chapters 11 & 12
-Scott Sagan & Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A
Debate
April 18 – The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
(CFE) Treaty
Lecture by Thomas Graham
Guest Speaker: Bonnie Jenkins
Required Reading
-Disarmament Sketches, Chapter 8
-Richard
A. Falkenrath,
Shaping Europe's Military Order: The
Origins and Consequences of the CFE Treaty
-John E. Peters
Changing Quality of Stability in Europe: The
Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty toward 2000
April 25 – The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Lecture by Damien LaVera
Required Reading:
-Disarmament Sketches, Chapter 10
-Graham & LaVera (in Stewart Patrick & Shepard Forman,
eds.,
Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement, Ch. 9)
-Shalikashvili Report
May 2 – Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty
Lecture by Damien LaVera
Guest Speaker: John Rhinelander
Required Reading:
-Disarmament Sketches, Chapter 7
-Nitze, pp. 467-479
May 9 – Controlling Fissile Material in Russia:
the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty,
Plutonium Disposition, etc.
Lecture by Thomas Graham
Guest Speaker: Laura Holgate
Required Reading:
-Graham
T. Allison, Steven
E. Miller, Richard
A. Falkenrath & Owen
R. Cote,
Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy:
Containing the
Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material
-Leon V. Sigal,
Hang Separately: Cooperative Security
between the United States and Russia, 1985-1994
May 16 – Existing Strategic Arms Control
Arrangements: SALT, START, INF, etc.
Lecture by Damien LaVera
Guest Speaker: John Holum
Required Reading:
-Disarmament Sketches, Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6
-Nitze, Chapters 16-22
-Richard Smoke, National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma,
1945-1991 Chapters 8-15
May 23 – The Future of Arms Control, New Forms of
Verification and Transparency, & New Approaches to Nuclear Arms Reductions
Lecture by Thomas Graham
Guest Speaker: Rose Gottemoeller
May 30 – Looking to the Future: Proceeding toward
Disarmament?
Lecture by Damien LaVera
Guest Speaker: Robert McNamara
Required Reading:
-Disarmament Sketches, Conclusions and Epilogue
-Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight,
Wilson’s Ghost:
Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing and Catastrophe in the 21st
Century, Chs. 4-5
-The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, National Academy
Press,
June 6 – Conclusions and Preparations for Final
Exams
Lecture by Thomas Graham and Damien LaVera
PRINCIPAL TEXTBOOK:
Thomas Graham
Jr., forward by Paul Nitze.
University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002.
Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies, Seattle.
ISBN: 0-295-98212-8
Paul H.
Nitze,
From Hiroshima
to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision,
Grove Weidenfeld 1989.
ISBN: 1-55584-110-4
Richard Smoke, National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma,1945-1991, McGraw-Hill Higher Education 1992 ISBN: 0070593523
Graham T. Allison Steven E. Miller Richard A. Falkenrath Owen R. Cote, Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material, MIT Press 1997. ISBN: 026251088X
Leon V. Sigal, Hang Separately: Cooperative Security between the United States and Russia, 1985-1994, the Century Foundation 2001. ISBN: 0870784560
Scott Sagan & Kenneth Waltz,
The
Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate,
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. 1998. ISBN:
0393967166
John E. Peters,
Changing
Quality of Stability in Europe: The Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty
toward 2001,
The Rand Corporation,
2000. ISBN: 0833027832
James E. Goodby,
Europe
Undivided: The New Logic of Peace in U.S.-Russian Relations,
U.S.
Institute of Peace 1998. ISBN: 1878379755
Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight, Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing and Catastrophe in the 21st Century, PublicAffairs 2001. ISBN: 1-891620-89-4
[The Future of U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Policy,
National Academy Press, 1997. ISBN: 0309063671]
Richard A. Falkenrath, Shaping Europe's Military Order: The Origins and Consequences of the CFE Treaty, MIT Press 1995, ISBN: 0262560860
Stewart Patrick & Shepard
Forman, eds.,
Multilateralism & U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent
Engagement,
Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1-58826-042-9
John M.
Shalikashvili,
Findings
and Recommendations Concerning the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
January 2001
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. is the President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS). Ambassador Graham was involved with every major arms control negotiation taking place during his twenty-seven years with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). Ambassador Graham served as the Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament from 1994-1997. He led U.S. Government efforts to achieve a permanent Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) leading up to and during the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the NPT. Ambassador Graham headed the U.S. Delegation to the 1996 Review Conference of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. He also headed the U.S. Delegation to the 1993 ABM Treaty Review Conference. In addition, he led a number of delegations to foreign capitals in the period 1994-1996, first to persuade countries to support indefinite extension of the NPT and in 1996 to urge conclusion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland (the CTBT was signed in September 1996). He was the sole Executive Branch witness in support of the Senate approval of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). Ambassador Graham was the General Counsel of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) from 1977 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1993. From January 20, 1993 until November 22, 1993, he served as the Acting Director of ACDA, and from November 23, 1993 to August 29, 1994 as the Acting Deputy Director.
Bonnie Jenkins
was Legal Advisor to the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal
Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Previously, she worked as an attorney in the Office of the General
Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) from 1990 to 1998
and served as the legal advisors to U.S. Delegations negotiating:
the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, the Open Skies
Treaty, the United Nations Convention on Nuclear Terrorism, and the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
She also served in the Department of Defense and is a Lieutenant in the
U.S. Naval Reserves. She holds
B.A., J.D., M.P.A., and LLM degrees and is a doctoral candidate at the
University of Virginia.
John Rhinelander is
a Senior Counsel at the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge and
Vice-Chairman of the Arms Control Association.
He is a leading expert on international law, arms control, NATO
expansion, and national missile defense issues. From 1973 until 1975, Mr. Rhinelander served as Under
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Previously, he was
General Counsel of the Department of State, and from 1971 to 1972, Legal Advisor
to the US SALT Delegation which negotiated the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty
(ABM). Mr. Rhinelander served as
Deputy Legal Advisor at the Department of State.
He has taught courses in treaty negotiation and international law at the
University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and Stanford University.
Rose Gottemoeller
is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International peace and
holds a joint appointment with the Russian and Eurasian Program and the Global
Policy Program. A specialist in arms control issues in Russia and the other
former Soviet states, Gottemoeller’s research at the Endowment focuses on
issues of nuclear security and stability, non-proliferation and arms control.
Before joining the Endowment in October 2000, Ms. Gottemoeller was deputy
undersecretary for defense nuclear nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of
Energy. Previously, she served as the department’s assistant secretary for
nonproliferation and national security. She first joined the department in
November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National
Security. Prior to the Energy Department, Ms. Gottemoeller served for three
years as deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in
London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the
White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs. Previously,
she was a senior defense analyst at RAND, a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow,
and an adjunct professor of Soviet military policy at Georgetown University.
Laura Holgate is
Vice President for Russia/NIS Programs of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Ms. Holgate joined NTI after serving in a number of senior positions in
the federal government. She managed the Cooperative Threat Reduction program at
the Department of Defense, which provides assistance to Russia and the Newly
Independent States in securing and destroying excess nuclear, chemical and
biological weapons. She also served as director of the Office of Fissile
Materials Disposition at the U.S. Department of Energy. Ms. Holgate has received
numerous public service awards and serves on the Executive Board of Women in
International Security.
John D. Holum served simultaneously as the Director of the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Acting Under Secretary of State for
Arms Control and International Security Affairs from Dec. 15, 1997 until the
integration of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency with the Department of
State in March 2000. He served from then until the end of the Clinton
Administration Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security and Senior Adviser to the President and Secretary of State. Mr. Holum,
who was sworn in as ACDA Director on Nov. 22, 1993, served as a defense and
foreign policy adviser in the 1992 Clinton Presidential Campaign and assisted in
the Clinton Presidential Transition. He also served as Executive Director of the
Platform drafting committee and the platform committee for the 1992 Democratic
National Convention. From 1981 until his swearing in as ACDA Director, he
practiced law in the Washington office of O’Melveny & Myers, concentrating
on regulatory and international matters. He served on the Policy Planning Staff
in the Department of State from 1979 to 1981, working on arms control and legal
issues. From 1965 to 1979, Mr. Holum was a member of Senator George McGovern’s
staff where he served as legislative director and managed the Senator’s work
on the Foreign Relations Committee. He served as issues director for Senator
McGovern in the 1972 presidential primaries, and as chief speechwriter in the
general election campaign.