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An Instance of Treason
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This is the only complete, authoritative account of the most brilliantly successful espionage operation of the twentieth century: the notorious Communist spy ring headed by Dr. Richard Sorge, whose cover was that of senior German journalist in Tokyo during World War II.
Ozaki Hotsumi, the second-ranking member of the ring, was also a prominent journalist, a leading authority on China, and a consultant to the Konoye cabinet. Opposition to fascism led to a kind of heroic treason by m any intellectuals in the 1930's and 1940's; some of them betrayed their countries for the Soviet Union. On who did so was Ozaki, who joined Sorge and gave his life to the anti-fascist cause because he believed that his own nation's policies in China were reprehensible and that Japan's aggression would lead to military defeat and a probable domestic Communist revolution.
Although the spy ring had many successes in supplying Stalin with the highest level information from within the Japanese government, its most important accomplishment was to inform Moscow of the Japanese decision to maintain its nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union and to strike south against the United States and Britain - thus enabling Stalin to keep the Red Army intact against Hitler in the West. The only comparable espionage coup is that of the Cambridge Communists headed by Kim Philby, with whom Ozaki had much in common.
When this book was first published in July 1964, the Soviet Union had never acknowledged the existence of Sorge. Two months later, and perhaps in response to the book's publication, Sorge was acclaimed as one of the Soviet Union's most illustrious spies and was made post humous "Hero of the Soviet Union's Ritus, the high-ranking Japanese Communist who was accused of betraying the Sorge ring to the Japanese authorities, was thought to have been killed by the Communists in China during the early 1950's. In 1980, the Chinese suddenly released him after 27 years in jail, and he returned to Japan to tell a complex and contradictory story. In an extensive Reprise prepared for this new edition, the author analyzes these developments in depth, as well as much other significant information that has come to light since the book's original publication.
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Title An instance of treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge spy ring
Author Chalmers A. Johnson
Edition 2, illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990
ISBN 0804717664, 9780804717663
Length 324 pages
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FACTS TO A CANDID WORLD: America's Overseas Information Program
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FACTS TO A CANDID WORLD
America’s Overseas Information Program
Oren Stephens
Published in 1955. Essential to the security and well-being of a nation is the good opinion of other nations.
The molding of international public opinion by propaganda is a vital function of government and one that should be understood by every citizen whom government serves. In, Facts to a Candid World, Oren Stephens, who has broad theoretical background and working experience in journalism and public relations, discusses propaganda - what it is, why it is important, and how t o make it internationally effective.
As the author points out: "As public opinion is ultimately decisive within a state or empire, so is it ultimately decisive in the international arena."
The first part of the book describes the power and nature of public opinion. The second part discusses America's overseas program, showing its weaknesses and strengths. Beginning with the Creel Committee, Stephens describes the work of the Office of War Information, the Voice of America, the International Information Administration, the United States Information Agency, and other official agencies.
A pioneer study in the field of psychological warfare, Facts to a Candid World, is an analysis of the nature of propaganda, a credo for the specialist, and an explanation for the citizen.
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Title: Facts to a Candid World
Author: Oren Stephens
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1955
ISBN: 0804761728
The Politics of Peace: An Evaluation of Arms Conrols
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THE POLITICS OF PEACE
An Evaluation of Arms Control
John H. Barton
Published in 1981
As practiced in the last two decades, arms control can provide some, but only very limited, help in maintaining peace; this is the conclusion that emerges from this evaluation of the capabilities and limitations of arms control. Substantial reductions in weapons am extremely desirable, but the author suggests that the current
arms control approach is politically unable to produce such reductions, as confirmed by the SALT negotiations and the withdrawal of the draft SALT II treaty.
After reaching this pessimistic judgment, the author considers possible changes in the arms control process. He carefully examines the problem of enforcement and finds that traditional concepts of large-scale international military forces am likely to be of little help, but that less dramatic procedures based on public opinion or on very constrained use of force are likely to be much more beneficial. He then reviews possible arms control applications to identify situations in which this favorable interplay can be achieved. The resulting new arms control agenda includes international organization reform, new kinds of expert groups, and new forms of international military consultation. For all these innovations the author suggests politically plausible first steps.
John H. Barton is Professor of Law at Stanford
University, and is co-editor of International
Arms Control: Issues and Agreements
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Title: The Politics of Peace: An Evaluation of Arms Control
Author: John H. Barton
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1981
ISBN 0804710813
Contents
Background: The Sources of War and Peace 1
The Initiation of War 15
International Law and Arms Control 44
Entry into Arms Control Agreements 67
The Impact of Contemporary Arms Control 105
Multilateral Techniques of Enforcing Arms Control 127
SALT and the Control of Bilateral Nuclear Deterrence 148
Regional Arms Control 175
Global Arms Control 200
Conclusions 219
International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements
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This is a reproduction edition from the 1976 publication.
This is an exhaustive analysis of national and international arms control: its history, philosophy, cultural context, technology, economic and political ramifications, achievements, and future prospects. The book reflects the combined contributions of the Stanford Arms Control Group, an interdisciplinary group of nearly twenty faculty members who have been jointly teaching an undergraduate arms control course at Stanford University since 1971.
The book will assist the general reader in understanding and forming intelligent opinions on such issues as the role of doctrine in military strategy, the difficulties posed by rapidly changing technology, and the value limitations of arms control as a way to prevent war. It is also designed as supplementary reading for courses in international relations, diplomatic history, and foreign policy.
An appendix contains the text of eighteen major arms control agreements. The volume concludes with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.
John H. Barton is Professor of Law at Stanford University. Lawrence D. Weiler is
Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.
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Title International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements
Authors Stanford Arms Control Group, John H. Barton, Lawrence D. Weiler
Editors John H. Barton, Lawrence D. Weiler
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1976
ISBN 0804709211, 9780804709217
Length 444 pages
The Stanford Arms Control Group:
John H. Barton, Richard Brody, Gordon A. Craig, Alexander Dallin, Sidney D. Drell, Donald Dunn, Thomas Ehrlich, Alexander L. George, Joshua Lederberg, John W. Lewis, Robert D. North, Wolfgang Panofsky, Peter Paret, Henry Rowen, Jan Triska, Lawrence D. Weiler, Franklin B. Weinstein
Invited Participants in the Review Conference at Stanford, August 1974:
Anne Cahn, Steven Canby, Albert Carnesale, Harold Feiveson, Leslie Fishbone, Ralph Goldman, James Gustin, Roman Kolkowicz, Joseph Kruzel, George Quester, Eric Stein, Samuel Williamson
Contents
Introduction 1
Arms Control: Cultural Context and Motivations 9
Modern Disarmament Efforts Before World War II 31
The Changing Nature of Strategic Weapons 46
An Overview of the Negotiations Since World War II 66
Agreements and Treaties Other than SALT and the NPT 94
Strategic Doctrine 123
The Institutions of Arms Control 151
The Negotiation of SALT I 172
SALT, 1972-1975 208
The Economics of Arms and Arms Control 228
Regional Arms Control: The European Example 249
Control of Conventional Arms 271
Control of Nuclear Proliferation 288
Towards an Evaluation of Arms Control: Unanswered Questions 310
Appendixes 323
Discussion Questions 419
Suggested Further Readings 425
The Soviet Economy During the Plan Era
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Report on the International Law of Pacific Coastal Fisheries
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This report on the international law of fishery problems has been divided into two parts. It has been our purpose to devote one part-the purely scientific part-to a clear, brief, accurate, and uncolored summary of the technical facts disclosed by research. For that part, which will be published separately later, including no thesis, no propaganda, no opinion on projects for the future, Dr. Stefan Riesenfeld is responsible. To him belongs the credit for the patient, competent work of investigation and compilation.
The other part of the report, covered by this publication, is founded on Dr. Riesenfeld's research but is not confined to a statement of facts. It is a commentary on the research, . an interpretation of the facts, and a critical opinion of the possibilities of development of international practice (law) in the interests of justice; peace, and conservation. For this part of the report I am responsible. It does not necessarily express Dr. Riesenfeld's opinions, although I believe that in the main he agrees with me. It is a brief, and as a brief which seeks to influence others and to convert a phalanx of American legal opinion saturated with traditional doctrine, it has been modeled for emphasis. It is not a cold, bare, flat picture of events, but a selective arrangement of essential facts placed in bas relief. I think that I have made no statement of fact that is not accurate, no statement of opinion as to possibilities that should not meet with assent when the facts disclosed by our report are realized and my statement is interpreted correctly. Nevertheless opinions of the well informed as to law and policy may differ from mine, chiefly, I think, because of those fundamental differences in basic philosophic and temperamental motivations which commonly cause important differences of opinion between intelligent men on all matters of politics and government that do not so concern their immediate personal affairs as to prejudice their opinions accordingly.
THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
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Europe-or Asia? This was the crux of the great debate on American foreign policy precipitated by General MacArthur's return to the United States in April 1951.
MacArthur raised the issue: should we sacrifice the European coalition and go it alone in the Far East?
In The United States and the Far East, 1945-1951, Harold M. Vinacke tells how this country became involved in the affairs of postwar Asia. He describes, too, the dilemma of American policy-makers in that area. Abroad, our Administration was suspected of seeking to overthrow the Communist regime in China and restore the Nationalist regime; at home, the Administration was charged with seeking to overthrow the Nationalists and deal with the Communists.
In this careful, balanced account Dr. Vinacke tells how the containment policy has been developed and applied in China, Japan, southeast Asia, India, and Korea. He shows the difficulties of fostering independence and economic betterment in Asian countries without courting the charge of imperialism.
He explains how Japan, rather than China, has become an anchor of our defense system, and discusses the risks of bringing into play the Sino-Russian alliance by attacking the Chinese Communists from bases in Japan.
This book was originally prepared as a data paper for the Eleventh International Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, held in India in October, 1950. It has since been revised and a chapter has been added carrying the story through the summer of 1951 and discussing the issues raised by Communist China's intervention in the Korean war.
Neither a defense of the Administration's record nor an attack upon it, Dr. Vinacke's book is at once a concise account and a penetrating analysis of the main events and issues in our recent Far Eastern policy. It is published to help thoughtful citizens appraise grave issues which confront this country in its position of world leadership.
At the time of publication in 1951, Harold M. Vinacke, was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, and one of America's leading authorities on the Far East and its relations with the United States. He taught at Nankai University, Tientsin, and during World War II he was a specialist on Japan for the Office of War Information. He is the author of A History of the Far East in Modern Times and other books.
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Title: THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
Author: Harold M. Vinacke
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951
ISBN 080473528X
French Instituions: Values and Politics
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FRENCH INSTITUTIONS
Values and Politics
By Saul K. Padover with collaboration from Francois Goguel, Louis Rosenstock-Franck, and Eric Weil
Publishered in 1947, this is one of a group of four related studies on French politics and society planned for the Hoover Institute Studies. This group also includes a study of national character by Rhoda Metraux and Margaret Mead, and two studies of French political symbolism and elites by Daniel Lerner and the RADIR staff. These, together with Mr. Padover's study of French political institutions and values, may give the reader an overview of the dynamics of modern France as a participant in the world political community.
Dean Padover's volume, worked out in collaboration with three prominent French scholars, surveys the conflicting values in the traditions of the French Revolution and French conservatism. It then examines what has happened to these values under the impact of twentieth-century social problems, war, and defeat. This study was initiated as part of the RADIR Project (Revolution and the Development of International Relations), of which
Mr. Padover was a consultant.
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Title: French Institutions
Author: Saul K. Padover
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1947
ISBN: 080473271X
Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China 1969-1989
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“This is likely to be the definitive account for many years to come of Sino-American relations during the period covered. Ross uses an incredible range of American and Chinese personal interviews, and he has a uniquely valuable set of internal Chinese analyses that have no precedent in other published works for their detailed assessments of U.S. policy. The organization of the book is as excellent as its coverage, and the writing is superbly lucid.”
- Allen S. Whiting, University of Arizona
“This authoritative and stimulating work is the best on the subject. It will serve two audiences, those wanting a narrative of U.S.-China relations and those seeking a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the relationship and its lessons for international politics. Whether dealing with grand strategy or diplomatic detail, Ross is masterly.”
- Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University
Robert S. Ross is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University
It is generally assumed that in the 1970’s and 1980’s the United States and China developed cooperative relations in order to enhance their security against the common threat from the Soviet Union. Conventional wisdom claims that in the interest of maximizing cooperation Washington and Beijing agreed to “shelve” or put aside any conflicting issues. Where conflict did occur, it has been blamed on diplomatic mismanagement or the intrusion of domestic politics into diplomacy.
This book shows, however, that maintaining the U.S.-China cooperative relationship was never easy precisely because there were major ongoing conflicts between the two powers, notably over Taiwan. The author thus disputes Henry Kissinger’s claims that only he and Richard Nixon were uniquely wise in understanding that Taiwan was not an important issue. In fact, at no time did China agree that the U.S. stance toward Taiwan was even temporarily acceptable, and this problem required continuous negotiations and mutual adjustments.
The book examines how China and the United States managed to develop and consolidate cooperative relations for almost two decades despite the existence of the Taiwan question. It explains how negotiations over Taiwan were conducted, and why the two powers sometimes made compromises and at other times were willing to tolerate the status quo. It also examines why the negotiations on occasion became acrimonious and why the acrimony eventually subsided. In short, the book is a series of case studies of U.S. –China negotiations, examining the impact, at various points in time, of distinct combinations of internal and external factors on the behavior of the negotiators and the outcome of the negotiations.
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Negotiating cooperation: the United States and China, 1969-1989
By Robert S. Ross
Published by Stanford University Press, 1995
ISBN 0804724539, 9780804724531
349 pages
Contents
Introduction 1
Taiwan , Kuomintang , Chinese civil war
First Contacts 17
Beijing , Zhou Enlai , Soviet Union
The Necessity 120
Taiwan Relations Act , Woodcock , Morton Abramowitz
Renewed Cold 163
Taiwan Relations Act , Pershing II , Chinese
U S Strategic 201
August 17 , Wu Xueqian , Reagan administration
Negotiating Cooperation 246
Alexander Haig , Cold War , U.S.-PRC cooperation
U S PRC JOINT 265
Shanghai Communique , Republic of China , Jammu and Kashmir
TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT 273
Leonard Woodcock , Sino-American Relations , Xinhua
NOTES 322
FBIS/PRC , Beijing Review , Edward W
INDEX 341
Arms Control by Committee : Managing Negotiations with the Russians
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This book is essentially a series of case stories of U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms control negotiations, as seen from the American side. It describes the processes of governmental decisionmaking for arms control in Washington, D.C., and the techniques for joint U.S.-Soviet decisionmaking at the negotiating table.
As general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and member of U.S. delegations to disarmament conferences for eight years, the author was in a unique position to assess the difficulties of fashioning an arms control treaty that could pass muster within the executive branch of the U.S. government, be approved by U.S. allies, be successfully negotiated with the Soviets, and then win the approval of the U.S. Senate. This process will be even more complex now that the United States will face at least four nuclear powers from the former U.S.S.R.
The book has three purposes. The first is to add to the recorded history of the following negotiations: the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the ABM Treaty of 1972 and its companion SALT Interim Agreements, and the 1987 INF Treaty. The author asks in each case: What did the president and his assistants do (or fail to do) to negotiate a successful agreement?
The second purpose is to use the case book approach, common in law schools and business schools, as a teaching device for those who wish to learn how the American government made decisions about arms control negotiations, how U.S.-Soviet negotiators reached decisions, and what the results of the decisions have been.
The book’s third purpose is to generalize about what works and what does not work in the complex world of arms control negotiations, including information on the impact of negotiating committees and comparisons of the process for negotiating arms limits through action and reaction, without written agreement. The concluding chapter looks to the future: What changes will occur in the arms control process given the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union?
STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND ARMS CONTROL
George Bunn was the first general counsel for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA: 1961-1969), helped negotiate the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and later became U.S. ambassador to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. He has taught at the U.S. Naval War College and the University of Wisconsin Law School, and served as dean of that law school. In his almost twenty years as a Washington lawyer, he worked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and a major Washington law firm, as well as for ACDA. For the last twenty years, he has been at CISAC. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University.
Among Bunn's research on the nuclear non-proliferation regime based upon the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a book, Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations with the Russians (Stanford University Press, 1992), a negotiator's history of the negotiation of important provisions of the NPT, as well as commentary on other negotiations. He has written many articles relating to the NPT and its regime.
In addition he has written extensively on other aspects of nuclear proliferation and arms control, such as the theory and practice of achieving arms control including non-treaty methods, and the physical protection of nuclear material from theft and sabotage. Recently his articles have appeared in Arms Control Today, The Nonproliferation Review, Science and Global Security, IAEA Bulletin, and Disarmament Diplomacy.
In 2006, he completed (as an author and coeditor) U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy and Nonproliferation: Confronting Today's Threats. The book address the role nuclear weapons should play in today's world, and how the United States can promote international security while safeguarding its own interests.
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